Ethnic Newspapers
Ethnic Newspapers
Online Newspapers - Newspaper Databases - Print and
Microfilm Collections - Finding Ethnic
Newspapers at Other Institutions
Online Newspapers
Search the University of Chicago Library's collection of
full-text newspapers. Includes dates of coverage.
Newspaper Databases
Search for articles from ethnic newspapers. Full-text access
is indicated by
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Ethnic News Watch

A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and
journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Print and Microfilm
Collections
Sources to help you locate ethnic newspapers in print and
microfilm at the University of Chicago Library.
- Library
Catalog
To limit your search, use the Advanced Keyword search option. Limit
by language and search for the geographic area and "newspapers" as
a subject. For example, "Chicago newspapers" limited to Polish. Or,
use the "Begins With" search and browse Library of Congress Subject
Headings. For example:
- Greeks -- United States -- Newspapers
- Chinese Americans -- Newspapers.
- Germans -- Maryland -- Newspapers.
- French Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia --
Newspapers.
- Polish Americans -- New York (State) -- Buffalo --
Newspapers.
- Indian Newspapers
- Indians of North America -- Newspapers.
- Hispanic Americans -- Newspapers
- Hispanic Americans -- Texas -- San Antonio --
Newspapers.
- Lens
The Library's new search interface provides facets which can focus
your search, such as "place of publication," "time period," and
"genre"
- United
States Newspapers at the University of Chicago Library
This database can help you identify newspapers at the University of
Chicago Library for specific ethnic groups. Select
"Subject/Audience". The database was compiled from a survey of U.S.
newspapers held at the University of Chicago Library by the
Illinois Newspaper Project in 1997 and is not updated. As
a result, some call numbers and holdings information may be out of
date, so we recommend confirming with the Library Catalog for
holdings and location information.
- Newspaper
Collections on Microfilm at the U of C Library
A bibliography of major microfilm sets, some of which include
smaller Chicago newspapers, including some from the ethnic
press.
Finding Ethnic Newspapers at
Other Institutions
Databases and guides to help you locate ethnic newspapers at
libraries and museums.
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WorldCat
You can use WorldCat to locate newspapers at libraries around the
country. If you do not know the title, you can use the advanced
search options to identify newspapers by type or location. To help
limit your search, select "Serial" and add "Newspapers" as a
subject search to your other keyword searches.
- Center for
Research Libraries: Ethnic Newspaper Database
The Center
holds one of the largest collections of ethnic newspapers in the
country, both in print and microfilm. The Ethnic Newspaper Database
allows you to search by ethnic group, language, city, etc. Or,
search the CRL
Catalog for specific titles and holdings. Most of the CRL's
collection is available via interlibrary loan.
- University of
Minnesota: Immigration History Research Center
The University of Minnesota's IHRC houses one of the largest ethnic
newspaper and periodical collections in the United States. The IHRC
has a list of newspapers and publications by ethnic group.
- Library of
Congress Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room
Guide to the extensive print and microfilm newspaper collections at
the Library of Congress.
- Chicago
History Museum Research Center
The Chicago History
Museum's Research Center has an extensive collection of newspapers
on microfilm and many rare newspapers in print, including smaller
newspapers serving specific ethnic communities.
Print Sources
- Arndt, Karl John Richard and May E. Olson. German-American
Newspapers and Periodicals, 1732-1955; History and
Bibliography. 2d, rev. ed. New York: Johnson Reprint Corp,
1965. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6953.5.G3A751.
- Biržiška, Vaclovas. Lithuanian Publications in
the United States, 1874-1910 : A Bibliography. Chicago:
Institute of Lithuanian Studies, 1994. Location: Regenstein, 2nd
Floor Slavic Reference Collection. Call Number: Z1361.L5B57
1994.
- Charno, Steven M., Conference on Latin American History, and
Library of Congress. Serial Division. Latin American Newspapers
in United States Libraries : A Union List Compiled in the Serial
Division, Library of Congress. Conference on Latin American
History. Publications. Vol. 2. Austin: Published for the Conference
on Latin American History by the University of Texas Press, 1969.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z6947.L36.
- Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project. Bibliography of
Foreign Language Newspapers and Periodicals Published in
Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project,
1942. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6953.5.A1C5.
- Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project. The Chicago Foreign
Language Press Survey : A General Description of its Contents.
Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project, Works
Projects Administration, 1942. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks.
Call Number: Regenstein, Bookstacks.
- Danky, James Philip, Maureen E. Hady, and State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. Native American Periodicals and
Newspapers, 1828-1982 : Bibliography, Publishing Record, and
Holdings. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984. Location:
Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z1209.2.U5N27.
- Grove, Pearce S., Becky J. Barnett, and Sandra J. Hansen.
New Mexico Newspapers : A Comprehensive Guide to
Bibliographical Entries and Locations. 1st ed. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 1975. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: Z6952.N6G88.
- Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. American
Jewish Periodical Center and Herbert Cecil Zafren. Jewish
Newspapers and Periodicals on Microfilm : Available at the American
Jewish Periodical Center. Augm. ed. Cincinnati: The Center,
1984. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6944.J4H45 1984.
- Hoerder, Dirk and Christiane Harzig. The Immigrant Labor
Press in North America, 1840s-1970s : An Annotated
Bibliography. Bibliographies and Indexes in American History.
Vol. 4, 7-8. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: Z6953.5.A1H630 1987.
- Ireland, Sandra L. Jones. Ethnic Periodicals in
Contemporary America : An Annotated Guide. Bibliographies and
Indexes in Ethnic Studies. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number: Z6953.5.A1I740
1990.
- Kanellos, Nicolás.and Helvetia Martell. Hispanic
Periodicals in the United States, Origins to 1960 : A Brief History
and Comprehensive Bibliography. Recovering the U.S. Hispanic
Literary Heritage. Houston, Tex.: Arte Público Press,
2000. Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6953.5.S66K36 2000.
- KestercanekVujica, Nada. Croatian Newspapers and Calendars
in the United States. San Francisco: R and E Research
Associates, 1971. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number:
Z6953.5.S4K42.
- Meléndez, A. Gabriel. Spanish-Language Newspapers in
New Mexico, 1834-1958. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona
Press, 2005. Location: Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number:
PN4888.H57 M47 2005.
- Myroniuk, Halyna, Alexander Lushnycky, University of Minnesota.
Immigration History Research Center, and Naukove tovarystvo im.
Shevchenka. Svitova rada. A Research Guide to Ukrainian and
Carpatho-Rusyn American Newspapers, Periodicals, and
Calendars-Almanacs on Microfilm (1886-1976). St. Paul, Minn.;
New York: Immigration History Research Center, University of
Minnesota; Shevchenko Scientific Society, World Council, 2005.
Location: Regenstein, 2nd Floor Slavic Reference Collection. Call
Number: Z6953.5.U37M97 2005.
- Princeton University. Library, Alfred L. Bush, and Robert S.
Fraser. American Indian Periodicals in the Princeton University
Library. Princeton, N.J.: 1970. Location: Regenstein,
Bookstacks. Call Number: Z1209.P92.
- Renkiewicz, Frank, Anne Bjorkquist Ng, and University of
Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center. The Polish
Microfilm Project : A Guide to Polish American Newspapers and
Periodicals in Microform. St. Paul: Immigration History
Research Center, University of Minnesota, 1988. Location:
Regenstein, 2nd Floor Slavic Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z6953.5.P7R45 1988.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library, Neil E.
Strache, James Philip Danky, and University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Libraries. Hispanic Americans in the United States : A Union
List of Periodicals and Newspapers Held by the Library of the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin and the Libraries of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison: The Society, 1979. Location:
Regenstein, Bookstacks. Call Number: Z1361.S7W81 1979.
- Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center and Lilly
Setterdahl. Swedish-American Newspapers : A Guide to the
Microfilms Held by Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center,
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Augustana Library
Publications. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana College Library, 1981.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z6953.5.S9S92 1981.
- Wepsiec, Jan. Polish American Serial Publications,
1842-1966; an Annotated Bibliography. Chicago: 1968. Location:
Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z6953.5.P7W48.
- Wynar, Lubomyr Roman and Anna T. Wynar. Encyclopedic
Directory of Ethnic Newspapers and Periodicals in the United
States. 2d ed. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1976.
Location: Regenstein, 1st Floor Reference Collection. Call Number:
Z6944.E8W95 1976.