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Department of Communication, The West Chair of Excellence in Communication and Public Affairs, and the UTC Lupton Library Archives

Web Sites for the 19th Century Press,
the Civil War, and Free Expression

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

Red ButtonFinding Nineteenth Century Newspapers - United States Newspapers Project

Selected sites of state newspaper projects:

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Red ButtonNew Hampshire Newspapers Database

(contains an excellent guide to understanding the HOLDINGS fields for catalogue records)

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Red ButtonTennessee Newspaper Project (with searchable database)

Red ButtonTexas Newspapers Database (includes a database of Southern newspapers as well)

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Red ButtonThe Valley of the Shadow

A valuable guide entitle "How to read a nineteenth century newspaper" is part of a larger project comparing two communities during the Civil War; one Pennsylvania, the other Virginia. Newspaper text and images are available here.

Red ButtonSecession Era Editorials Project

This project was developed by T. Lloyd Benson of Furman University's History Department. Included are full-text editorials from selected papers on selected topics.

Red ButtonLibrary of Congress Subject Headings list: abbreviated list by subSOUTH

This list compiled by manuscript cataloguers of antebellum plantation materials includes annotations and scope notes to help you identify what subject terms are used for what types of materials.  When searching for sources about African-American women during the Civil War. If you ask your institution's online catalogue to search "African-American women--Civil War" you,ll get zero hits because Library of Congress doesn,t recognize "African-American women" as a legitimate subject. You should search "Afro-American women" instead.

Red ButtonProposed Newspaper Genre List:

Compiled by cataloguers of various Newspaper Projects, this listing explains how the cataloguers determine what terms to use when describing different types of newspapers; e.g., when searching for abolitionist newspapers, use the term "antislavery newspapers" instead.

Red ButtonRLIN archive and manuscript file Z39.50 Gateway:

If you're hoping to find the manuscript papers of a certain journalist, then this is the tool for you!

Sponsored by the Library of Congress' office for the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, this database contains catalogue records for manuscript collections in research libraries, as well as institutions that do not have their collections catalogued but submit collection descriptions to the NUCMC office.

NOTE: Researchers should be aware that they should also refer to their librarian for a search in OCLC. RLIN's database and OCLC's database are not identical. While some institutions contribute to both, but many contribute to one and not the other.

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Red ButtonLilbrary of Congress Periodicals Reading Room

Of course, this guide would not be complete without calling to attention the sources available in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Lupton Library's Special Collections: Harpers Weekly, Frank Leslie's, the Methodist Advocate and the Methodist Advocate Journal, being among the more significant of the sources.

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For additional information about journalism history, visit the web sites of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) at:

http://www.utc.edu/~aejhist

or

the "J-history" web site at:

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~jhistory

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Last updated: October 10, 2000.
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