Guides: Subject Guide ~ Theatre: Magazine and Newspaper Collections

Selected Newspaper Titles

America's Historical Newspapers
More than 1,800 newspapers from all 50 states. The colonial and early national newspapers collected by the American Antiquarian Society form the core of this collection. Coverage: 1690-1922.

Library owns Early American Newspapers, Series I-7, 10 and 13.

Manchester Guardian Weekly

New York Times
Registration and additional NYT sources.
A national daily newspaper with worldwide influence and readership, often regarded as the "newspaper of record" in the U.S.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

Reproduces the newspaper's text, images, and graphics in their original layout. Coverage: 1851-2021.

Times of London

1985 to present - Monday to Saturday. Full article text. No images.
1985 to present - Sunday. Full article text. No images.
1785 to 2011 - Full text and image. Does not include issues published on Sundays.

Sunday Times

The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times with its own perspective on the news.
Coverage: 1822-2016

American Periodicals
Full-image reproductions of more than 1,100 American magazines and journals. Includes popular, general interest, literary and women's magazines. Coverage 1741-1940.
British Periodicals
Full image reproductions of nearly 500 British magazines and journals. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, music, art, drama, archaeology, architecture, and the social sciences. Coverage: 1681-1920.

Illustrated London News
Call Number: Burke Periodicals

1913-2003. 1913-1971 are located in Periodicals Oversize.

Life Magazine Archive

Life is an American magazine whose groundbreaking photo essays shaped conversations about politics and culture in the mid-20th century. Coverage: 1936-2000.

Burke Library also houses a complete print run of the magazine.

Women's Magazine Archive
Full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Titles are scanned from cover to cover in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing. Coverage: 1846-2005.

Better Homes & Gardens, 1922-2005
Chatelaine, 1928-2005
Cosmopolitan, 1886-2005
Essence, 1970-2005
Good Housekeeping, 1885-2005
Ladies’ Home Journal, 1883-2005
Parents, 1926-2005
Redbook, 1903-2005
Seventeen, 1944-2005
Town and Country, 1846-2005
Woman’s Day, 1937-2005
Women’s International Network News, 1975-2003
Vogue Archive
Vogue is an influential American fashion and lifestyle magazine that views the wider world through the lens of fashion. Coverage: 1892-present.

Readex AllSearch
Collections of books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries.

Includes:
America's Historical Imprints
America's Historical Newspapers
American State Papers, 1789-1838
House and Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817
Senate Executive Journals, 1789 - 1980
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Maps, 1817-1980
British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissance
565,000 pages of rare manuscripts from the Medieval and Early Modern periods including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings and commonplace books. These works of 1,000 authors were selected from the collections of the British Library, National Library of Scotland, Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. Coverage: 1120-1660.
Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920
Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia. Covers the diverse history of Caribbean islands over nearly 400 years
Includes books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera.
LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 (Archives of Sexuality and Gender)
Includes primary source documents from various repositories including Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Women's Energy Bank, GLBT Historical Society, and the National Library of Medicine. Library owns Parts I & II.

Library of Congress Digital Collections
The Library of Congress makes more than 2 million items from its collection available online, including images, manuscripts, books, notated music, audio and video recordings, and more.