Wikipedia:WikiProject Newspapers/Research/Texas
General search techniques
[edit]Try searching newspaper databases for the names of newspapers or for journalism-related topics. While some newspaper archives are on the open Internet, the most useful articles are often in paywalled or specialized databases. Several options are:
- The Internet Archive
- The Internet Archive stores digitized copies of many books and newspapers, available for free or to borrow with a free account. But to find these contents, you need to use the Internet Archive's own search function; external search engines like Google or Bing will not reveal most of its contents.
- newspapers.com
- A paid subscription. Subscriptions are available free for veteran Wikipedians through the WP:Wikipedia Library program.
- Your university library or local public library
- You probably have the ability to log into databases of newspaper archives through your library.
- The "Chronicling America" program of the U.S. Library of Congress
- This program partners with libraries and universities in each state to digitize historical newspapers. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission is the local partner in Texas. Search its collection [1]. (A list of all the state partners.)
Modern materials
[edit]- Texans and Their State; a Newspaper Reference Work (1918) - By Harry T. Warner.
- This book is "intended to be a biographical and historical text book of the state of Texas."
- Texas Digital Newspaper Program - Titles
- "The Texas Digital Newspaper Program painters with communities, publishers, and institutions to promote standards-based digitalization of Texas newspapers and to make them freely accessible via The Portal to Texas History." (local partners of National Digital Newspaper Program, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and the Tocker Foundation).
Online databases
[edit]These sites do little to establish notability and may not meet the threshold of a reliable source, but they may be useful in conjunction with other reference materials.
- Texas State Library and Archives Commission . (This one may be more useful than the rest; it links in turn to a number of online resource, mostly for finding the contents of newspapers, rather than information about the newspapers; but it's worth further investigation.)
Historical materials
[edit]- Newspapers (2019) According to the Texas State Historical Association Handbook of Texas, in March 2019, The Galveston News was considered to be the oldest standing newspaper still functioning - Article by Louise C. Allen, Ernest A. Sharpe and John R. Whitaker
Detailed Notes About Specific Sources
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