Western History & Civilization: E-News

Coverage: 1690-1922
The core of America’s Historical Newspapers is Early American Newspapers, the most extensive resource of its kind for exploring the American past.

Coverage: 1946 - 1996
Includes archival materials on Korean War and Vietnam War. It is a primary source to study the Korean and Vietnamese military and civilian leaders and the U.S. strategies in Vietnam.

Coverage: 1941 - 1996
International coverage of American race relations news collected by Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). It is an important source to study how the world responded to the racial tensions in the United States.

Coverage: 1732 - 1900
Includes newspapers published in the U.K. from the 17th to 19th century. It is a major primary source to study the British society and culture as well as its foreign relations with Asia Pacific and African countries during these three hundred years.

Coverage: 1945 - 1991
Communist Bloc and developing world news collected by Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). FBIS Daily Reports contain key issues, events and people of socialist countries in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Coverage: 1896-2004
Includes Daily Mail published in London from 1896 to 2004 , its Atlantic Edition from 1923 to 1931 and Special Issues from 1897 to 1962. This historical archive is an important source to study British society and its interactions with Asian countries in the twentieth century.

Coverage: 1941 - 1996
FBIS Daily Reports were issued by the U.S. Government. The archives of transcript of foreign broadcasts and news are important sources to study world politics and U.S. intelligence service in the World War II and the Cold War.

Coverage: 1732 - 2011
Provides the following historical national and regional newspaper and periodical archive collections subscribed by the CUHK Library: 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire, 19th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships, British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900, British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900, British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950, British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950, British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950, Daily Mail Historical Archive, 1896-2004, Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2011, Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2010, Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003, Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992, Sunday Times Digital Archive, Times Digital Archive and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.

Coverage: 1842-2003
With rich pictorical works and reports, the Illustrated London News is an important primary source to study the social history of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It also contains historical descriptions on the late imperial Russia, China, Hong Kong and many other Far East and Middle East countries in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Coverage: 1941 - 1996
Population movements news collected by Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) between 1941 and 1996 with emphasis on the migrants sourced from Palestine, Tibet, Hungary, Vietnam and Cuba.

Local and international news on Middle East and North Africa collected for the United States's Central Intelligence Agency, the database covers topics of Israeli-Arab conflict, human and civil rights, international relations, terrorism and other issues of regional political, economic and security interests.

Coverage: 1945 - 1996
Includes archival materials on the world arms race during the Cold War after World War II. It is a primary source to study the development of mass destruction weapons, and its impacts on regional reactions as well as international relations and non-proliferation treaties.

Coverage: 1959 - 1996
Archives the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Pravda. It is a primary source to study the Soviet's thoughts and perspectives towards other communist countries and world events during the Cold War and its following years from 1959 to 1996.

Coverage: 1931 - 2006
Provides issues of Sunday Times from 11 Jan 1931 to 2006.

Coverage: 1855-2000
Includes the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers published in London from 1855 to 2000. This historical archive is an important source to study British society and its colonies in Asia from the nineteenth to twentieth century.

This historical newspaper database archives Times of London from 1785 to 2010. It is an important primary source to study British society and its colonies in North America and Asia from the eighteenth to twentieth century.

Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal.