Trans-regional historical news sources

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  • ANNO - Austrian Newspapers Online (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
    Newspaper collection from the historic territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes 41 (often bilingual) 19th-20th-century titles in Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Croatian, Slovenian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, and Ukrainian.

  • Bibliothek des Digitalen Forums Mittel- und Osteuropa (Digitalen Forums Mittel- und Osteuropa)
    Collection of primarily German-language publications (18th century-World War II) from east-central Europe and the Baltic includes 20 (often bilingual) newspapers titles in Yiddish, Hungarian, Romanian, Hebrew, Croatian, and Russian.

  • Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
    Collection of America's historic newspapers (1777-1963), including many published by immigrants from Eastern Europe, most notably by Poles, Czechs, Lithuanians, Slovenians, and Russians as well as Croatians, Hungarians, Romanians, and Slovaks.

  • Connecting Canadians: Canada’s Multicultural Newspapers (Athabasca University)
    Includes 15 newspapers in Ukrainian, Finnish, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Latvian, Hungarian, and Estonian.

  • digiPress (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
    Collection of mostly 19th-century German newspapers that also includes a few titles in Russian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Estonian, and Serbian.

  • Endangered Archives Program (British Library)
    “Newspapers” section includes scattered issues of 19th- and 20th-century newspapers in Armenian, Russian, and Bulgarian.

  • Europeana / Newspapers (Europeana Foundation / EU-organized)
    Includes a selection of 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Poland, and Serbia.

  • Global Resource Network (CRL/SEEMP)
    Substantial runs of émigré newspapers, inlcuding Ameryka, Dziennik Chicagowski, Dziennik Związkowy, Goniec polski, Novyi mir, and Ujedinjeno srpstvo; as well as selected newspapers of the 1917 October Revolution.

  • HathiTrust Digital Library (collaborative project coordinated by HathiTrust)
    A small number of 19th-20th century newspapers from Russia and Eastern Europe (in Bulgarian, Czech, etc.).

  • Lucian Blaga Digital Library (“Lucian Blaga” Central University Library Cluj)
    Includes several 18th-20th century Romanian and Hungarian periodicals.

  • The Newspaper Collection of the National Library of Israel
    200+ Jewish newspapers in various languages published in Central and Eastern Europe (19th to 20th centuries).

  • Press Corner (European Commission)
    A searchable database of press releases (1974-) from the EU and the European Commission.

  • SFU Digitized Newspapers (Simon Fraser University)
    Nine titles published in Canada from the 1930s to the 1990s (coverage varies), including in Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.

  • ZEFYS (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)
    Several newspapers in Russian and one in Polish published in Germany during the first half of the 20th century. Also included are German newspapers published in the eastern part of the German Empire which had a significant Polish population.

Audio

  • Andrew Nagorski interview recordings (Hoover Institution Archives)
    Contains 129 unique audio files of the interviews conducted (1976-2008) by the editor of Newsweek International with prominent Russian and East/Central European political and cultural figures (listed by country).

  • Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Sound Recordings (Hoover Institution Archives)
    This digital collections of over 7,000 audio recordings (1950-2005) produced by/about RFE/RL between includes:

    • Broadcast Records
      Nearly 7,000 sound recordings of radio broadcasts (1950-2005) to audiences in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union by RFE/RL’s various country bureaus.

    • Corporate Records
      Contains 161 sound recordings (1951-2005), including a few interviews in various languages, Bulgarian (7), Czech (5), Hungarian (4), etc. For a description of the programming, consult the guide to the collection.

Visual

  • AP Archive (Associated Press)
    1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories dating back to 1895.

  • British Pathé
    Worldwide footage from British Pathé and Reuters (1896-1984).

  • European Film Gateway (a project of 22 partner institutions)
    Photos, posters, newsreels, etc. as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques.

  • EUscreen (by a consortium of European audiovisual archives, public broadcasters, academic and technical partners)
    Thousands of audiovisual items from many European broadcasters and audiovisual archives (1900-).

  • Open Central Asian Photo Archive (CNRS-Sorbonne University, University of Geneva, Ghent University, and the International Observatory Alerte Héritage)
    Among this collection on Turkestan and Soviet Central Asia (1868-1970s) are photo-postcards produced by the Moscow-based Creative Association "Orbit" of the Union of Journalists of the USSR (5); the Typography "Izvestiia" of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (28), and the Typography "Rabochaia gazeta" (2).

  • Public Affairs photographic file. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty corporate records (Hoover Institution Archives)
    Includes 21 prints and negatives depicting people and events associated with RFE/RL, Inc. and the history of Cold War radio broadcasting (1950-1980).

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