YSO Project - MUHL 6960 - Research in Music - LibGuides at Youngstown State University

News Sources

If you are looking for historic news stories, here are some sources you can use:

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Archives
Search the archives for articles about Youngstown
Google News
You can search for almost anything here, including -- youngstown construction -- or -- Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. If you want older materials, be sure to click on "Search tools" and limit to Archives or Custom Range for the date.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns. Click "Publications" in the top left corner to get a list of the titles included in this database.
Provides full text for 185 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. The database also contains selective full text for 392 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

If you're looking for images of a particular place and time, try searching Google Images with terms like this:

AP Images This link opens in a new window
Photos from The Associated Press, plus graphics, text and audio.
LIFE Photo Archive This link opens in a new window
Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Sanborn Historic Maps (1882-1962) This link opens in a new window
Over 40,000 detailed maps of Ohio cities drawn between 1882 and 1962.
Large scale street plans produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance company from 1867 to 1970. Sanborn Maps show the outline of each building including the location of windows and doors together with street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
These maps are heavily used in both public and academic libraries by a wide range of researchers including local historians to locate and identify buildings and neighborhoods, urban historians to study the growth of towns and cities, and environmentalists concerned about impact of new developments.

Go to the library home page and do a title search for vindicator.

We have the Vindicator on microfilm from 1889 to the present.

We also have indexes from 1869-1919 and a few from the 1930s.

TIP: Figure out the date of the event you're looking for, then browse through the Vindicator microfilms around that date.

Search Vindicator Archives Online
The archive search is currently limited to the editions already online (1984-2009).
Browse Vindicator Archives
1984-2009, using Google News Archives. Helpful if you know the approximate date.