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Chronicling America

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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). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874

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This online collection presents newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and became one of the most famous orators, authors, and journalists of the 19th century. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

The Frederick Douglass Newspapers collection contains more than 565 issues of three weekly newspaper titles, which have been digitally scanned from the Library of Congress collection of original paper issues and master negative microfilm.

HathiTrust

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The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications. HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. They offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

HathiTrust

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The HathiTrust Digital Library is home to millions of digitized books and publications. HathiTrust was founded in 2008 as a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries now preserving 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. They offer reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. and international copyright law, text and data mining tools for the entire corpus, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Independent Voices

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Independent Voices is an open-access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America

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Indigenous Newspapers in North America aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. A red padlock icon that indicates that the resource is for Phillips and CMLT students and faculty only.

Representing a huge variety in style, production and audience, the newspapers include national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages.

Newspapers.com World Collection

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Newspapers.com World Collection is an extensive database that provides online access to 4,000+ historical newspapers. Dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional, and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. A red padlock icon that indicates that the resource is for Phillips and CMLT students and faculty only.

Oklahoma Digital Prairie

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Oklahoma Digital Prairie provides visitors unique digital content spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history from the 46th State. The resource areas include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, and audio/visual content. Content ranges from the late 1800s to the present day. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Collections include documents state government records from the Tulsa Race Massacre; correspondence, newspaper clippings, and publications for and against, women's suffrage in Oklahoma; documents related to the 1948 Ada Lois Sipuel legal case against the University of Oklahoma law school; and much more.

Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives

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The Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives is a worldwide center for the study of Baptist history. Governed by the Council of Seminary Presidents, the SBHLA is one of the major denominational collections in the nation and serves, by assignment of the Southern Baptist Convention, as the central depository and archives of SBC records. An green padlock icon that indicates that the resource is free and open to all library patrons.

Digital resources include the Southern Baptist Convention Annuals (1845 - Current), Mission Journals, the Baptist and Reflector Newspaper, Pastor's Conference Sermons and SBC Presidential Addresses, and Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives Photographs.