Historical Newspapers [New Historicism]
Roberto Vargas
Humanities & Interdisicplinary Studies Librarian
Plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison, drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791 Plinio the elder, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
THE PLAN
+ an approach
+ resources
+ strategies
THE APPROACH
What is interesting?
What is important?
What does your search imply?
Is there anything hidden?
Searching Historical Sources:
Some things to consider
+ Various terms
+ Changes over time
+ OCR
+ Spelling
Searching Historical Sources
+ OCR
+ aging vs ageing
+ egregious
+ aa'ku OR acoma
+ geographic terms (United States, American)
+ time period terms (19th, "to 1800s")
+ terms for region or language (Italian, Asian)
RESOURCES
+ American Periodical Series
+ America's Historical Newspaper
+ Accessible Archives
+ Gale Primary Sources
+African American Newspaper Series
+ America's Historical Newspaper
full-text
controlled vocabularies
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Thank You!
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