Boston Communities
- Boston's Asian Community History (Northeastern University)Over 7,000 records from the Chinese Progressive Association, selected from the Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections. Records are in English and Chinese, and document Asian American activism in Boston, including tenants' rights, workers' rights, political empowerment, and local Chinatown issues.
- Boston's Latinx Community History (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowDocuments and images from the Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción and La Alianza Hispana records in the Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections. They document policymaking, urban planning, community relations, cultural and educational programs, violence prevention, and minority rights in Boston in the late 20th century.
- Boston's LGBTQA+ History (Northeastern University)Brings together items from the library's archival collections illustrating a diverse range of individuals, activism, and networks in the Boston LGBTQA community from the 1970s onwards.
- Lower Roxbury Black History Project (Northeastern University)From 2007-2009, with the assistance of her son, London Parker-McWhorter, photographer and documentary filmmaker Lolita Parker Jr spoke with over 40 residents of Roxbury to collect the audio, video, interviews and oral histories, scans, and photographs documenting the rich history of Boston’s Lower Roxbury community.
- Our Home: An East Boston History Portal (Northeastern University)From Northeastern's Boston Research Center, this site preserves and celebrates East Boston's rich and diverse history. Includes hundreds of digitized photographs, newspapers, oral histories, and other primary source materials.
Newspapers
Colonial Era
- Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowEarly American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views.Note: Northeastern has Series 1 only.
20th Century
- Bay State Banner (1965-1979) (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowBoston area newspaper geared to an African American audience. Part of the Proquest Ethnic Newswatch database.
- Boston Globe (link to all Northeastern Library access points) This link opens in a new window
- Boston Haitian Reporter (2001-2013) (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowPublished in English, geared to a Haitian American audience. Provided by Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest). Don't miss Ruth's Recipes!
- Boston Herald (via Access World News) This link opens in a new windowFull text from 1991 to the present. The newspaper is one of two daily newspapers in Boston.
- Boston Irish Reporter (1994-present) (Proquest Ethnic Newswatch) This link opens in a new windowBased in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston, the newspaper is geared to Boston's Irish Americans.
- Boston Phoenix (1973-2013) (Internet Archive) This link opens in a new windowBoston's alternative newspaper of record, the first word on social justice, politics, as well as the arts and music scene.(1972-2013)
- East Boston Community News (Northeastern University) This link opens in a new windowFull scans of issues of The East Boston Community News from 1970 to 1989 which include coverage on neighborhood issues and events such as the desegregation of the Boston Public Schools, politics, land use, and airport issues.
- CVN (Cape Verdean News) 1979-2010 This link opens in a new windowNewspaper by and for the Cape Verdean community of New Bedford, Massachusetts. From Ethnic Newswatch (Proquest)