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Africana Studies

A guide for students interested in topics related to Africana studies.

Historic Black Newspapers

Finding Newspapers from the Library

Tredway Library has subscriptions to a variety of different newspaper databases that may be relevant to your research in Africana Studies. These collections include both historical newspapers and sources that are still in circulation today. The bulk of our collections are comprised of English-language newspapers from the United States, however we do subscribe to a number of collections with international papers as well. 

To help you select the newspaper(s) that will be the most useful to you, read the brief descriptions provided below the links included on this page. These descriptions should help give a general overview of the types of materials included within that collection.

For a full list of the databases the library subscribes to, visit: https://library.augustana.edu/az.php. You can select 'newspapers' from the list of resource types at the top of the page. 

 

Historical Black Newspapers

General Newspaper Collections