The database provides online access to 282 U.S. newspapers that cover the African American experience from 1827 to 1998.

"American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century...Many of the publications reflect on the growing debate over slavery, including the serialization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin in National Era that preceded the novel."

Consisting of scholarly journals, historical indexes, and reference books, the Black Studies Center provides information from the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, the Black Studies Periodicals Database, The Chicago Defender (1910-75), the Black Literature Index, and more.

Titles include The Oklahoma Guide, The Black Dispatch, Oklahoma Safeguard, Langston City Herald,The People’s Elevator, Tulsa Star, and The Muskogee Citmeter, and others.

This guide provides an general overview of historical newspapers available to the OSU community.

Provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires, and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.

Explore a comprehensive collection of archive materials from The New York Times, spanning from 1851 to four years before the current year. This collection contains a diverse array of content including front page stories, full articles, advertisements, obituaries, editorials, sports, cultural insights, letters to the editor, and more.