 Alden Library provides access to a database that is specifically catered to historical African American newspapers. This database allows you to interact with articles from as early as the 1820s up until the late 1990s. To get to the African American Newspapers database, from the library's homepage, select the Subject and Course Guides tab and search African American Studies or AAS. On the results page, you'll see a link to the research guide for African American Studies. In this research guide, you'll see a tab for newspapers on the left side of the page. This will take you to the links for all of the different African American newspapers that Alden Library has access to. You'll see a link to the African American Studies database in the middle of the page. Now you are able to search for a particular newspaper, time period, era, or place of publication. Starting on the library's homepage, make sure that the ALICE catalog tab is selected. We will be researching articles in the freedoms journal. Keep in mind, this particular newspaper has a very limited date range, but all titles vary in coverage. In the drop down tab located next to the search box, you want to make sure that the periodical title option is selected. Click on the first title, freedoms journal. The second option will link you directly to the database. You will be able to limit your search by year, month, and day. You can also search within the African American newspapers database for articles from a specific newspaper. For example, I'm going to search for freedoms journal. On my results page, I see articles that are coming from this newspaper. You can also browse for a specific newspaper by going to the newspaper titles tab. This will give you an alphabetical list of all the newspapers that are included in the database. After I select freedoms journal, it takes me to a page where I can see information like how many issues of this newspaper are available in the database, and the date ranges of the issues. I can go click on a specific date to go to the issue that was published that day. You have any questions about the African American newspapers database or any other library resources? Be sure to let us know.