Primary Sources - Periodicals and Newspapers - HIST 282 - The Great War / Schneider, Joanne - James P. Adams Library at James P. Adams Library

Periodical and Newspaper Article Databases

Before you search the databases below, make sure that you consider carefully the persons, places, named events and organizations or groups related to the research question you are trying to answer and that you create a list of ideas to use as keywords in your search.

New York Times, 1851-2019 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times (1851 to 2019) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Providence Journal: Historical (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
Full-text of locally-written articles from 1829-1981 can be searched, emailed, or downloaded from the Providence Journal on Newsbank.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
RIC currently participates in all 15 JSTOR Arts & Sciences archive collections and the Life Sciences archive collection. Journals in archive collections are always included from volume 1 number 1, and related prior titles, but stop short of current issues. RIC also subscribes to 34 current journals in JSTOR. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
On-campus users at Rhode Island College see additional links in the right side column of Google Scholar search results which facilitate access to the library's full text articles. Off-campus, the same library links may be used by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right corner (next to "Sign In"). Select "Scholar Preferences" on the drop down menu, scroll down to "Library Links," then type in the box "Rhode Island College"

Additional resources:

American Memory
American Memory - a project of the Library of Congress intending to make their vast collections more accessible to the public nationwide - presents tens of thousands of original materials, including documents, letters, photographs, motion pictures and sound recordings, for researchers to examine from all periods of American history.
Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914 to 1919
This online collection is drawn from three primary sources: The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings, a volume published by the New York Times shortly after the armistice that compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" supplements of 1914-19; Sunday rotogravure sections from the New York Times for 1914-19; and Sunday rotogravure sections from the New York Tribune for 1916-19.
World War I Document Archive - Books & Commentary by Richard Hacken
This internet-resident repository of work by dozens of professional and amateur historians is a highly variable source: some material is of very high caliber and some should be used with skepticism. the section linked here contains a large list of mostly secondary sources, mostly monographs, on The Great War. A few book-length primary sources are also contained on this list.