Guides for finding Primary Historical Sources - The Details

  
Advanced Search Options

The Advanced Search of Chronicling America allows you to:

• Limit to newspapers published in a specific state
• Limit to a specific newspaper
• Limit to a specific date or year or date range
• Search for multiple words that are within 5, 10 or 50 words of each other

All Digitized Newspapers - Ethnicity and Language limits
   

Identify historical newspapers published by specific ethnic communities or written in a specific language. Choose the “Ethnicity” option (or Language option) and then an ethnicity (or language): e.g., African American, Native American (Indians of North America), LatinX (Cuban, Filipino, Latin American, and Mexican). 

Then click on the Go icon

Identify a newspaper of interest (e.g., The Jackson Advocate) …

Once a specific newspaper has been identified (by ethnicity or language) return to the Advanced Search - highlight this newspaper under the Select Newspapers option - and then search for your topic within that paper. 

Consider the Recommended Topics and Help options offered by Chronicling America.