U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and the 1990s, including titles from all 50 states.
Updated regularly. Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and the 1990s, including titles from all 50 states. Search by dates/eras, article types (news & opinion, election returns, letters, poetry/songs, legislative, prices, advertisements, matrimony & death notices), region/state, and newspaper name.
Colonial times - 1960. U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. In English and Spanish.
Provides access to a digital collection of historical content pertaining to U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture. Includes historical articles, newspapers, religious pamphlets, broadsides, historical books, letters, short stories, poems, advertisements, and more. The content is in Spanish (80%) and English (20%), and is searchable in both languages. Materials are drawn from the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.
19th and 20th century. Focuses on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought and women in the Latino-Hispanic history of the US.
Presents thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Rare and relevant books and newspapers – including rare anarchist newspapers – are presented in their original form. Extensive manuscript collections of both organizations and individuals are included for viewing, and are indexed for ease of search and maximum discovery. This collection offers a unique approach by focusing exclusively on the Latino-Hispanic history of the United States.
Photographs documenting conditions in schools for Mexican American children as part of "A Study of the Educational Opportunities Provided Spanish-Name Children in Ten Texas School Systems" by Virgil E. Strickland and George I. Sánchez (1948). This study preceded a successful District Court decision, Delgado v. Bastrop ISD, which led to desegregation of Texas schools for Mexican American children.
Primary source documents of investigations made by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. Pay special attn to: Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906-1930
Primary source documents of investigations made by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states; Mexican immigration to the U.S. from 1906-1930, and European immigration. There are also extensive files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens.
Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files:
Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906-1913
Part 1: Supplement: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898-1941
multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.
