Library Catalogs
The following Subject Headings may be useful for finding books in
the library catalog:
American Newspapers
-- History
American
Periodicals -- History
Journalism
-- United States -- History
Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radio broadcasting -- United States
Television broadcasting -- United States
Television
broadcasting of news
Television programs -- United States
WorldCat
A comprehensive catalog to over 52 million book
and audiovisual catalog records in
over 17,000 libraries.
Biographical Sources
Biography
and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI). Indexes major reference sources
including biographical dictionaries, Who's Whos, subject
encyclopedias, as well as the most important retrospective works on
individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity.
Periodical Indexes
General
InfoTrac Academic
OneFile (indexing with selected full-text:
1980+).
Excellent general index that includes full-text rticles from selected magazines and journals.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature (1900-present). UNCA PER AI .G56
Located on index tables in the reference area. Ask Librarian for help.
Newspapers
New
York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection. Full-image
articles from the last 150 years. Includes digital reproductions of
every page from every issue -- cover to cover -- in downloadable pdf
files. 
LexisNexis Academic
(Coverage varies)
Provides full-text
access to major U.S. newspapers and regional news, including The
New York Times (1980-present), The Washington Post
(1977-present), plus hundreds of other daily newspapers.
Scholarly Journals
Media & Society
JSTOR.
The scholarly journal archive; provides full
text of over 450 journals covering a broad
array of disciplines. UNCA collections include Arts and Sciences I,
II, III, and IV. See detailed
lists.
America: History and Life
Indexes the scholarly literature about all periods of American
history.
Humanities Full Text.
Index to the major journals in the humanities (including some full-text
articles) in the areas of literature, film and television criticism,
and journalism, among others.
Journalism & Communication Studies
ComAbstracts
Index to the professional literature of communication(s) fields from
the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship.
Selected Web Sites
American Museum of the Moving Image
Online exhibitions from the nation's largest permanent collection of
moving image artifacts.
Internet
Archive: Moving Image Collections
Featuring the Prelinger Archives, with
over 1200 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial,
and amateur) films made from 1927 through the present
Television
News Archive at Vanderbilt
The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The
collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news
broadcasts and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming.
Ad*Access
Image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in
U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. A
project of Duke University's Rare
Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library.
American Memory Project
Primary resources, including manuscript facsimiles and
transcriptions, photographs, and sound recordings, on all aspects of
American history and culture from the Library of Congress.
Library
of American Broadcasting
Searchable primary source material related to the history of broadcasting
in the U.S. from the University of Maryland Libraries.
Making
of America (MoA) at Cornell
Making of America (MoA) at UMich
Joint online project to digitize primary sources (books and journals) in
19th century American social history from the antebellum period through
reconstruction.
Museum of Television and
Radio
Archive of online exhibitions from the NYC and LA museums.
U.S.
Communications & Media History, 1500s to 1880
Essays, images, and bibliographies from William J. Gilmore-Lehne, Assoc.
Professor of History, Richard Stockton College of NJ.
Voice
of the Shuttle: Media Studies Page
Tons of links from Alan Liu at UC, Santa Barbara.
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