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American History: Newspapers & Magazines

Historical Newspapers

 

Historical newspapers from Ancestry Library. From Ancestry Library, choose Search > All categories > Special Collections > Stories & Publications > Newspapers.

The Library’s Newspapers research guide lists many other nineteenth and early twentieth century newspapers.

Historical Magazines & Journals

General databases

Bowdoin College Library has an unusually large collection of magazines and journals from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The following databases and indexes are best for identifying specific articles in these older magazines and journals.

Specialized databases

  • Making of America. This digital collection currently contains approximately 10,000 books and 50,000 journal articles from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

Individual publications