Online Media, Periodicals & Books Online News Sources
ABYZ NEWS LINKS
A portal to online news sources from around the world. Primarily composed of newspapers but also includes broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies. AJR NewsLink
Links to virtually every news source on the Web; from American Journalism Review and NewsLink Associates. News and Newspapers Online
Links to hundreds of news sites around the world, focusing on free sites that provide current, general interest, full text news. News Archives on the Web
Links to US and international news archives available on the Web; includes beginning date and cost information. News Source from Virginia, the U.S. and around the World - via University of Virginia -
Richmond Times
Dispatch (1861-1865)
The Richmond Daily Dispatch is the result of a
National Leadership Grant from the
Institute of
Museum and Library Services, and collaboration between
the University of Richmond, Tufts University's
Perseus Project, and the
Virginia Center for Digital History. There are currently
1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date
from November 1860 through December 1865. Links in the
navigation bar above provide access to a brief Civil War
period history and chronology by Civil War historian and
University of Richmond faculty member
Dr. Robert Kenzer, as well as more detailed background
and technical information about the project.
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Television News Archive
"Since August 5th. 1968, The Television News Archive has systematically recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts. This database is the guide to the Vanderbilt University collection of network television news programs."
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VIVA News Sources
Categories include general news (Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, and more), higher education news, Virginia news, and other collections. (Some sources are restricted to VIVA member institutions).
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World-newspapers.com
Online Magazines FindArticles.com
Contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines. Global Research
Includes 2,000 magazines, 1,000 libraries, major newspapers, and much more.
Online Scholarly Journals
Online Books Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Can be searched by author, title, and date. Cambridge History of English and American Literature
A full-text, searchable version of this classic. Literature is broadly defined in the work including a large collection of literary genres and lengthy literary biographies of novelists, poets, dramatists, etc. Celebration of Women Writers
Women writers' works and biographical information Classics Archive
A searchable collection of 425 Greek, Latin, Chinese, Persian, and other classical texts (in English translation). Documenting the American South
This site presents primary source materials documenting the cultural history of the
American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
Amazing collection of full-text resources at the University of Virginia. Searchable. English Server
More than 18,000 texts in the humanities plus links to associated sites. Searchable and browsable. Internet History Sourcebooks Project Making of America
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Major subject areas are education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. Contains approximately 1,600 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. This project from the University of Michigan and Cornell University represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts. The Online Books Page
Currently indexes over 7,000 on-line books and shorter texts by author and title. Searchable and browsable. Also links to other sources of on-line books. Project Gutenberg Index
The definitive web site for this project to put out-of-copyright books online in full-text. Around 1,000 texts online so far. Short Stories at East of the Web
Large online library of short stories with monthly features and additions. U.S. Historical Documents WORLD SCRIPTURE - A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts
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