Journalism History can be found in a number of the areas below. Check out the search here.
Call Number Range
Use these call number ranges to browse the General Collection and the Reference Collection.
| HE 8689-HE 8700 Radio and Television Broadcasting |
| HN 90 .M3 Mass Media |
| KF 2750 Mass Media Law |
| P87-96 Communication. Mass Media |
| PN1990- PN1992.92 Broadcasting |
| PN1991- PN 1991.9 Radio Broadcasts |
| PN1992- PN 1992.92 Television Broadcasts |
| PN4699- PN5650 Journalism. The Periodical Press, etc. |
| PN4735- PN4748 Relation to the State. Government and the Press. Liberty of the Press |
| PN4832- PN5648 Magazines and Other Periodicals |
| TK5101- TK6720 Newspapers |
| TK5101- TK6720 Telecommunications |
| TR820 Photojournalism |
Journalism Databases
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides articles and other research materials in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 600 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for 301 journals in the areas of communication, mass media, speech, and much more!
Newspaper Databases
COD Library's newspaper databases consist of individual newspaper titles as well multi-title databases that include regional, national and international publications.
Current Events
COD Library's current events databases will lead you to in-depth research and coverage of issues on a wide range of topics.
Business Databases
Use the COD Library's business databases for research into the news and media industries.
Statistics Databases
The COD Library's statistics databases will lead to a variety of types of statistics including historical, demographic, business related and more.
ABYZ Newslinks
ABYZ News Links is a directory of links to online news sources from around the world, organized on a geographical basis. It contains links to newspapers and other sites with news content such as broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
The National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1925 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Committee to Protect Journalists
This is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists. You can see incidents that have happened around the world or use the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker to follow attacks on press freedoms in the U.S.
Museum of Broadcast Communications' Encyclopedia of Television
Essays examine networks, programs, personalities, trends, policy disputes and more.
National Radio Hall of Fame
Includes biographies of National Radio Hall of Fame inductees who have been recognized for contributions to the medium of radio from its development through the current day.
Newseum Institute: First Amendment Center
Resources to help the public understand how the five freedoms of the First Amendment work. Included are research articles, podcasts, and information on Supreme Court cases on a multitude of First Amendment topics. A newer feature on the site is a quarterly report card to evaluate the state of each of the five freedoms.
Pew Research Center: Journalism and Media
Through public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research this nonpartisan fact tank informs the public about issues, attitudes and trends in news and media.
TED on Journalism
This is a collection of 25 different TED Talks that have been given on journalism. Topics include citizen journalism, filter bubbles, separating fact from fiction online, investigative journalism, citizen journalists, and more.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news records, it preserves and provides access to television news broadcasts. The collection includes evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC dating back to 1968 and an hour per day of CNN since 1995 and Fox News since 2004.