Research Guides: Local and Public History

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Local and Public History Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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MasterFile Premier
Provides full text for periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including history, popular culture, general reference, business, education, health, general science, and multi-cultural issues.
Accessible Archives
Full-text databases contain primary sources of historical information including eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements and genealogical records.
Coverage: 18th and 19th century
America: History and Life
Without question the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history and culture.
Coverage: Updated quarterly
Newspaper Source
Provides "cover-to-cover full text for 35 national and international newspapers," including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London). Contains "selective full text for 375 regional (U.S.) newspapers," such as Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, and Lexington Herald-Leader. Full text transcripts are also included, from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, and others.
Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index
Kenton County Public Library's index to local newspaper articles.
Project Muse
Full text of over 100 scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. A non-profit collaboration from Johns Hopkins University Press, Duke University Press, Oxford University Press, and others. Includes such titles as Film & History, The Journal of Military History, Ohio History, and Reviews in American History.
Coverage: 1995 - present
Project Muse Tutorials
Academic Search Premier
Contains full text articles from nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,144 journals in the collection. Includes such titles as American History, American Heritage, Smithsonian, and Civil War History.
Access Newspaper Archive
Access NewspaperARCHIVE contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700's. It is a gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Use the archive to view, save, and print full-page newspapers from around the world.
Coverage: 1700 - present
ARTstor
ARTstor Mobile iPhone App
Approximately 1,000,000 images covering art, architecture, and archeology.
ARTstor Tutorials
Cincinnati Enquirer
An online version of The Cincinnati Enquirer, a Gannett newspaper based in Cincinnati, OH.
Steely Periodicals/Microforms - Cincinnati Enquirer
Steely Periodicals/Microforms - Kentucky Enquirer
Coverage: 1999 - present
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of journals that spans many disciplines. Provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Includes such History titles such as Public Historian, The American Historical Review, The Journal of Southern History, and The Journal of Military History.
JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive Tutorials
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic (EBSCOhost)
LexisNexis Academic Mobile (EBSCOhost)
Features more than 6,000 full-text sources, including foreign and U.S. newspapers (among them The New York Times), magazines and trade journals, broadcast transcripts, company financial information, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles.
LexisNexis Academic Tutorials
Access World News
Index to full-text newspaper articles, from U.S. regional and national papers, newswires, and broadcasts. Titles include The Cincinnati Post, The Courier-Journal (Louisville), Lexington Herald-Leader, and The Paducah Sun. Time period coverage varies among publications.
Newsdex
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's index to local newspaper articles.

The Local and Public History Research Guide is maintained by Jordan Curtis. Suggestions and comments are welcome.