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Power Reporting: Reference shelf: Archives

American Native Press Archives
Collecting and archiving American Indian and Alaska Native newspapers and periodicals. Features a bibliography of native writers.

Electronic Text Archives
An up-to-date list of efforts to put books online. Annotated. By Louisiana State U.

IRE Resource Center
Searchable index of 12,000 investigative stories, print and broadcast, from Investigative Reporters and Editors. No full text, but you can search by category, then retrieve the full stories from IRE by fax or mail.

Life Magazine cover search
A searchable archive of Life Magazine covers.

National Archives and Records Administration
Includes US presidential and other government documents. Also the Federal Register, documents for public inspection, and links to resources on the Holocaust and JFK assassination.

Newspaper Archives on the Web
More newspapers are offering free or low-cost archives on the Web. An up-to-date collection of links to U.S. newspaper archives by the good souls at the Special Libraries Association.

Non-US Newspaper Archives
Links to archives of newspapers outside the U.S.

POTUS
Everything you ever wanted to know about any president of the U.S. Well indexed.

TotalNews
Indexes online news media, updated every few hours.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Since August 5, 1968, The Television News Archive has systematically recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts. The collection is strong in news broadcasts and specials. Individuals may make videotape requests.

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
From 1995 forward, searchable.

Yahoo Archives
Many general-interest archives are listed here.

Yahoo Presidential Archives
Lists a dozen presidential archives.


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