Guides: Subject Guide ~ Theatre: Magazine and Newspaper Collections

Selected Newspaper Titles

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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

1981-present - Full article text. No images.
1919 to 2005 - Full text and image. (Microfilm)

New York Times This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
Reproduces the newspaper's text, images, and graphics in their original layout. Coverage: 1851-2020.

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

Selected Magazine Collections and Titles

American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
The famed photojournalism magazine featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Coverage: 1936-2000.

Punch
Call Number: Burke Periodicals
1841-1992

Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
The full contents of Vogue magazine (U.S. edition) in full color page image. Coverage: 1892-present.

Selected Document Collections

AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
More than 50 thematic collections of primary sources spanning the 15th to the 21st centuries. The collections support research in history, literature, gender studies, race relations, popular culture, and many other areas of the humanities and social sciences.
New collections for 2023:
- Colonial Caribbean, Module II
- East India Company
- Foreign Office Files for Southeast Asia, Section II
- Interwar Culture
- Life at Sea
- Mass Observation Project, Module III
- Victorians on Film
Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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) This link opens in a new window
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.