POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS OF AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS: some resources
Here are some guides and directories to historical American newspapers that are available online and include information on their political affiliations. To my knowledge, none of the major collections of digitized newspapers make any attempt to inform researchers about the political perspectives of the journals they are accessing.
CLARENCE: American Antiquarian Society newspaper holdings database
Rowell’s & Ayer’s American Newspaper Directories, 1869-1920: from Library of Congress
Rowell’s and Ayer’s All-In-One Search, from University of North Texas
Online newspaper guides from American Antiquarian Society
U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present (a search page: includes “Labor Press” and “Ethnicity Press” among search parameters, so researcher can search by occupational or ethnic group affiliation, but not party or religion — hmmm)
Mapping Journalism’s Voyage West (Stanford University, Bill Lane Center for the American West)
Zotero groups (in progress bibliographies)
- Newspaper Affiliation Guides — printed, that is: includes some guides that may not be easily available online
- Newspaper Politics in Early America – secondary works on the history of the partisan press in America
SPECIFIC TIME PERIODS
Printer Relocation During the Revolutionary War (via Joseph M. Adelman)
J.C.G. Kennedy, Catalogue of the Newspapers and Periodicals Published in the United States: Showing the Town and County in Which the Same Are Published, How Often Issued, Their Character, and Circulation (1852)
Isaiah Thomas’s lists of newspapers published in 1775 & 1810, from History of Printing, Volume 2
