"Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955."
"Over 3,300 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States."
Contains more than 300 political commercials from every presidential election since 1952.
This website contains images of content in the Philip Morris USA Inc. Advertising Archive. These images include print ads, outdoor ads, and marketing materials dating back to the early 1900s, including some materials which may not have been published or publicly displayed.
Historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.
Since 1979, C-SPAN has televised the proceedings for the federal government, including congressional sessions, presidential speeches, and more. Browse popular topics or search for something specific.
A collection of 30 transcriptions of Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, addresses delivered to the American people over the radio during the 1930s and 1940s.
Hundreds of oral history interviews with professionals from the television industry which aim to chronicle the evolution of television from its early days to the present.
A library of news coverage of the events of 9/11/2001 and their aftermath as presented by U.S. and international broadcasters. Includes over 3000 hours of footage from the week following 9/11/2001.
A digital collection of Indigenous newspapers and other other publications.
From 1979 to 2009, AsianWeek proudly chronicled the growth and development of Asian Pacific America within American history. Today, the AsianWeek Database Project brings back three decades of news, education, and entertainment surrounding the Asian American community.
The Boston Chronicle was a daily newspaper founded in 1915 by a group of West Indian immigrants. This relatively understudied and little-known newspaper covered a wide variety of topics including global anti-colonial struggles, leftist activism, critiques of anticommunism, Jim Crow in the U.S., women’s rights, Black activism, transnational Black print culture, structural discrimination in education, labor and housing, and even sports reporting, music and book reviews. This archive includes digitized issues from 1932-1960.
Hundreds of digital newspapers published 1777-1963, available through the Library of Congress National Digital Newspaper Program. Good for smaller or more local papers and perspectives.
An open-access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTQ+ activists, the extreme right-wing press, and alternative literary magazines in the second half of the 20th century. Available through JSTOR.
Produced by Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps. They include articles written in English and Japanese, typed, handwritten and drawn.