Justice Studies

Alternative and independent media coverage. Independent voices and regional, rural, and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues from some of the most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals in the U.S. Approximately 260+ publications.

270+ newspapers covering life in the Antebellum South — abolitionism; the growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more.

Offers exact reproductions of 700+ historical American newspapers from the period 1690-1900.

Digital collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. This collection provides research opportunities into subjects including the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages. This resource was previously known as “American Indian Newspapers.”

Access the New York Times website with your SJSU email address. Once you have created your NYTimes account, use it to sign into the NY Times website from anywhere. Includes interactives, video, and audio, plus digital images of the newspaper back to 1851.

Provides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.

Provides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.

Provides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.

San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner newspaper articles. Limited to staff-written material only--wire service and freelance articles are generally not included, nor are classified ads. Photo archive can be searched separately and some articles include pictures.