LibGuides: COM250: Mass Media: Home

Historical Newspapers

Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries
Independent Voices
An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals

Contemporary News Sources

National Newspapers Core
Includes access to LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post
Newsbank
Provides access to smaller, local newspapers, including the Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Suggested Scholarly Databases

Credo Reference
Search online encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other reference sources to find definitions, statistics, images, etc.
Academic Search
A general catch-all database for all topics. A good place to start, but don't forget it has a lot of non-scholarly stuff in it.
JSTOR
Another general database, good for a variety of topics
Communication & Mass Media Complete
A communication specific database. Helpful for topics related to mass media
SocINDEX
A sociology specific database, it contains just the scholarly articles about sociology and criminal justice topics.

Books only catalog search box

List of social movements

19th Century

Women's Rights/Suffrage (1850s-1920)

20th Century

Civil Rights (1950s-1960s)
Try focusing on a smaller movement within the broader Civil Rights Movement:
-School Desegregation
-Sit ins
-Montgomery Bus Boycott
-Freedom Riders
-Freedom Summer
Black Power (1960s-1970s)
American Indian Movement (1960s-1970s)
-Alcatraz Occupation
-Wounded Knee Occupation
Vietnam Anti-War Movement (1960s-70s)
2nd Wave Feminism / Women's Liberation (1960s-1970s)
Gay and Lesbian Movements (1960s-1970s)
-Stonewall
-Gay Liberation Front
-Harvey Milk Campaign
Act Up / AIDS Crisis (1980s-1990s)

21st Century

War

Vietnam Anti-War

Post 9/11 Anti-War

Israel-Hamas War / Stand With Palestine Campus Protests

African American Movements

Civil Rights

Black Lives Matter

Women's Movements

Women's Suffrage

Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment - National Archives
Crusade for the Vote - National Women's History Museum
Suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Topics in Chronicling America
Digitized primary source news articles
Golden Flyer Suffragettes: Topics in Chronicling America
Digitized primary source news articles
19th Amendment: Topics in Chronicling America
Digitized primary source news articles
Women's Suffrage: Primary Source Set
From the Local to the Global: America’s Newspapers Chronicle the Struggle for Women’s Rights
Article including many primary source citations

Women's Liberation Movement

#MeToo

Native Peoples Movements

American Indian Movement

American Indian Movement - Digital Public Library of America
American Indian Movement - American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Independent Voices: Native American
60s and 70s Native alternative press publications
Indian Voice Magazine

Water Protectors / Dakota Access Pipeline Protests

LGBTQ Movements

LGBTQ Rights

Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement
Stonewall's Impact - Digital Public Library of America
Independent Voices: LGBT
Publications from the Gay and Lesbian movements of the 1970s
Harvey Milk Primary Source Set - GLBT Historical Society

Act Up / AIDS Crisis

Marriage Equality

Other Movements

Environmental Movements

March for our Lives / Gun Violence

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