Public History -- Philadelphia and the United States

• Readers Guide Retrospective 1890 – 1982 

 The major index of popular magazines for this time period.  Not fulltext.

• Three major opinion journals covering a wide spectrum of political, social and economic views

The Nation Archives 1865-present

The New Republic Archives 1914-present

The National Review Archives 1955-present

• Time Magazine 1923-

•  Google Magazine Search 

Use the advanced search feature of Google books to retrieve Magazine articles, including Life Magazine. Click on the Magazine button. Note: you cannot print from Google books.

Both Lexis-Nexis and ProQuest have newspapers going back to the early 1980s.  However for earlier newspapers use:

New York Times Historical Newspaper 1851-last 3 years (moving wall)

America's Historical Newspapers1829-1922 

-- Now including over 100 Pennsylvania papers going back to 1719.--  Includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1834-1922 (some issues are missing)

In addition, the Library of Congress is beginning a newspaper project:

Chronicling America 1880-1922