Newspapers
- Newspapers.com – World Collection This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com Library Edition offers full page newspaper images with searchable full-text of newspapers. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to both full runs and portions of runs of newspapers.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This database offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersA range of newspapers published in late 1800s and early 1900s.
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
This collection includes the full text of historically significant African American newspapers, published in 36 states, 1827-1998.
- African American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowMajor African American newspapers from the 19th century
- Historical African American Newspapers Available OnlineA guide to African American Newspapers online. Guide provided by the Marist University Libraries.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Black Studies Center supports research, teaching, and learning in Black Studies and other disciplines that benefit from a more detailed coverage of the black experience such as history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, and religion.
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to periodicals by and about African Americans. Representing 26 states, the publications offer a range of material, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
- African American Historical Serials Collection This link opens in a new windowReports, annuals, magazines, and newspapers from African-American churches and social service agencies. Includes materials from the African Methodist Zion Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as many Baptist churches, seminaries, hospitals, charities, orphanages, schools, and advocacy groups.
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowPrimary source material from 18th and 19th Century periodicals - includes African American newspapers and more.
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window19th century papers in various geographic areas.
Newspapers from Other Libraries
- WorldCat FirstSearch This link opens in a new windowWorldcat is great for finding books and other sources. Included in that are newspapers that we may not own or have digitized. You can search for a specific title and then request it on microfilm through interlibrary loan.
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog This link opens in a new windowThe Center for Research Libraries is a vast collection of sources. Included are books, government documents, dissertations & theses, and a large amount of newspapers. Like Worldcat, you can access CRL materials through interlibrary loan.
- Alabama Department of Archives & HistorySearch their digital collections here Click "Search our Collections" and then "Newspapers on Microfilm" to find local newspapers by county. You could then access these through interlibrary loan.
- Interlibrary LoanUse Interlibrary loan to request any books, journal articles, theses/dissertations, newspapers, or other sources that the university libraries don't have. With print books and some other sources you may have to wait 1-2 weeks for them to be delivered, but electronic copies of things like scholarly journal articles can be accessed in a matter of days!
Images
- American Memory This link opens in a new window
Gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
- Documenting the American South This link opens in a new window
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- Without SanctuaryA collection of photos of lynchings that appear in the book Without Sanctuary
- NAACP photographs of anti-lynching campaign activities and victims of beatings and lynchingsA collection of photos at the Library of Congress
- Digital Public Library of AmericaContains images and other full-text sources
Oral History
You can find many small digital collections/archives with a Google search.
For example, this search: lynching "oral history" would find some collections.
- Documenting the American South This link opens in a new window
A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century.
- Oral Histories of the American SouthA part of the "Documenting the American South" collection that focuses solely on oral histories.
- Southern Oral History Programmore than 5,000 interviews with people from all walks of life—from mill workers to civil rights leaders to future presidents of the United States.
- HistoryMakers Digital Archive, The This link opens in a new window
Primary source resources through video content, fully searchable transcripts, and oral histories from individuals whose life stories bring African American history to life.
Images in Books at Gorgas Library
Without Sanctuary by ISBN: 0944092691Publication Date: 2000-02-01Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.
Pamphlets
- African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907A collection of pamphlets from the Library of Congress.