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University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Political Science: Newspapers

Newspapers

Newspapers can be excellent sources for political science research because they show how political campaigns and issues were depicted in the press as they were happening; they also often reflect public opinion and the political climate at the time of their writing. For a thorough list of digital newspapers by U.S. state, see the Historical U.S. Newspapers Online guide by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Digitized newspapers with full text searching capabilities are great for historians because they can search through thousands of papers at once to find articles about a specific person or event. The following newspaper collections contain thousands of historical and current newspaper titles:

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