International Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Advice about English Translations of Articles from Non-English Speaking Countries
Finding English translations of newspaper and magazine articles can be challenging. Some web pages devoted to research on a historical topic provide English translations of a few selected articles but you must be aware of the criteria that the web page uses to choose the articles they provide. Many books that are collections of primary sources also translate a few articles, but again, be aware that you are getting only a small selection of the possible articles in existence. See the tab on Primary Sources for more advice.
Recommended Resources
Use these databases to search for scholarly History journal articles (secondary sources)
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new windowAmerica: History and Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowBest database for world history. Lists scholarly articles from history journals. Allows you to search by journal name. Each article is summarized. Covers the history of civilization (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
18th and 19th Century Newspaper & Magazine Articles (Primary Sources)
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- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- New York Historic NewspapersThe New York Historic Newspapers project exists to digitize and make freely available for research significant runs of historic newspapers for every county in the state.
20th and 21st Century Newspaper & Magazine Articles (Primary Sources)
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
- New York Historic NewspapersThe New York Historic Newspapers project exists to digitize and make freely available for research significant runs of historic newspapers for every county in the state.
- CrisisFull text of W.E.B. DuBois' NAACP newspaper via Googlebooks.
- Digital South Asia Library This link opens in a new window
Pre-18th Century Newspapers & Magazine Articles (Primary Sources)
There were newspapers and broadsheets published before 1700; most of them can be found reprinted in books or online. Do a search in IDS Search using your topic and terms like documents, sources, publications, articles, periodicals, newspapers. Try GoogleBooks as well.
