LibGuides: Newspapers: Specialty Newspapers

Specialty Newspapers

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside This link opens in a new window
Searchable images of newspapers published inside U.S. prisons from 1800 to the present day.
Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s This link opens in a new window
This database "brings together for the first time local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the U.S. It also includes key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by ethnic, Catholic, and Jewish organizations (Reveal Digital)."
Service Newspapers of World War Two This link opens in a new window
Explore over 300 newspaper titles from across the globe that brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas (Adam Matthew). Fondren Library owns access to Modules I and II.
Module I: Highlights include Stars and Stripes London Edition, Fauji Akhbar, a highly visual publication for Indian troops, Springbok, printed in both English and Afrikaans for those serving in South Africa, Die Wehrmacht, which served both Germany’s public and its troops, and 13 editions of the Union Jack.

Module II: Continuing the themes seen in Module I and covering an equally diverse set of geographical locations, highlights within this module include, The Land Girl, published in Britain for the women’s land army on the home front, the highly visual weekly magazine Parade, published for British forces in the Middle East, the all-services newspaper of South East Asia Command, Yank, a popular magazine for the US armed forces, American and Australian editions of Guinea Gold, Blighty, a weekly paper for British forces, and Ceylon Review, a weekly publication for British forces in Ceylon.
(Adam Matthew)