Research Guides: HIST 4600: Lynching in America: Digital Collections

Newspapers and Magazines (Primary Sources)

Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942)
Newspaper includes obituaries, stocks and editorials.
African American Newspapers Series 1: 1827-1998
Provides access to U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This collection includes historically significant papers and features many rare 19th-century titles.
American Periodicals
Full text periodicals published between 1740 and 1940.
Charlotte Observer Historical Archive, 1886-2018 (via Readex)
Includes obituaries, stocks, editorials and first-hand accounts of events.
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
A leading African-American newspaper, with more than two-thirds of its readership outside of Chicago.

Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers 1789-1963
Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Supported by the NEH and the Library of Congress.

Harper's Weekly: 1857-1912
A 19th century illustrated newspaper from 1857-1912. Includes news stories, illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and advertisements.
History Commons - North America
19th Century African American newspapers, American County Histories to 1900, American Civil War Primary Sources, and more.
New York Times Historical Archives (1851-2021)
Major global newspaper including news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, as well as photos and advertisements.

North Carolina Digitization Project
Newspapers 1751-1980's
North Carolina Newspapers
This is a collection of digitized newspaper articles from North Carolina from DigitalNC

Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
The oldest continuously published black newspaper dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation.
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
Iconic British humor and satire magazine. For research on 19th and 20th century political social history.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
Index for general-interest, news, and opinion magazines published primarily in the United States.
Times Digital Archive
Historical newspaper archive with full-text coverage of the Times from 1785 to 2013. Supports research across multiple disciplines including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy with coverage of all major international historical events.

Documenting the American South
Primary source materials relating to Southern history. Open access.

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A collection of sources on Southern history, literature and culture from the colonial period through the first decades of the 20th century. Includes: First-Person Narratives of the American South; Library of Southern Literature; North American Slave Narratives; The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865; The Church in the Southern Black Community.
NAACP photographs of anti-lynching campaign activities and victims of beatings and lynchings
Collection at the Library of Congress
African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907
Collection from the Library of Congress American Memory Project

DPLA
A portal to digitized content made available by libraries, archives and museums

A repository for digital collections. Items in the public domain (works published before 1923) are freely accessible online.

A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Includes digitized books, periodicals, media, and more.

DigitalNC
Explore original materials from 235 libraries, museums, and archives across North Carolina.