Research Guides: African American Theater and Performance Research Guide (Main): Critical Reception

Critical Commentary

New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
1857-present
Full-text searching and browsing capabilities are available. Users may choose to display and download in PDF format either the full image of any page or just the individual article they need. Additional years of coverage will be added annually.
Los Angeles Times This link opens in a new window
Contains major daily newspaper from Los Angeles. Covers national, international, and local news.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Access backfiles of Beat, Billboard, Boxoffice, Broadcasting & Cable, Melody Maker, Musician, New Musical Express, Spin, Variety, and other entertainment titles.

Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Contains U. S. newspapers, magazines, and journals of ethnic, minority, and native presses. Searchable in English and Spanish, materials span from 1960 to the present.
African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956 This link opens in a new window
Contains African American newspapers published in the United States from 1835-1956. Complements the database African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
Access periodicals by and about African Americans, including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, bulletins, and more.
ProQuest African American Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Black Newspapers provides a record of social change spanning almost a century. Covers major events to everyday life; includes newspapers such as Atlanta Daily World, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, and Pittsburgh Courier.

NexisUni
Full-text access to news, business, medical, educational and legal sources. The sources include international, national, and regional newspapers; magazines; trade journals; newsletters; wire service reports; and transcripts of television and radio news programs.
Factiva
Online access to thousands of news and business sources, including domestic and foreign newspapers, Reuters and Dow Jones newswires. Only place to access recent years of the Wall Street Journal online.
Access World News
Access World News coverage includes domestic newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, transcripts, and broadcasts, including 16 Georgia newspapers. All titles are the full electronic version of record. CLICK ON THE LINK "THE WORLD" TO SEE NEWS SOURCES FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

ProQuest History This link opens in a new window
Contains 38 historical databases covering primary sources such as newspapers, magazines, government documents, first-hand accounts, and more.
NewspaperArchive This link opens in a new window
Provides current information and daily feeds from a wide variety of U.S. and international newspapers.
Newspapers.com This link opens in a new window
Contains local and regional historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and other select countries.

OpinionArchives This link opens in a new window
Provides access to current issues and backfiles of a number of leading U.S. opinion publications including the Nation, New Republic, Commonweal, the New York Review of Books, Harper's, and more.
News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Access consumer magazines in the fields of news, policy, and politics. Titles include Newsweek, the UN Chronicle, the UNESCO Courier, and more.