OpinionArchives designs, develops, digitizes and administers archives for leading opinion journals, newspapers and magazines. For over 15 years, they have been creating opinion archives that have proven to be an essential resource to a broad group of individuals and organizations, including professors, students, researchers, writers, libraries and library consortia.
OpinionArchives consists of nine titles from some of the oldest and most distinguished magazine publishers in America, including The Nation, NACLA, The New Republic, Harper's, National Review, Commentary, American Spectator, Scientific American and Commonweal.
This collection is uniquely inclusive and wide-ranging, spanning progressive views to more conservative perspectives, covering domestic as well as international issues, involving politics, the arts, books and culture.
Represented in these comprehensive archives are words and images from the world's most thought-provoking writers, artists and political activists. Contributing writers include Presidents, Ambassadors, European leaders, great American poets, novelists, statesmen, philosophers and scientists. There are over 600,000 pages covering 640 years of history, including thousands of reviews on art, books, theatre and film.
OpinionArchives enables researchers to access historical material in ways never before possible, and is an invaluable and responsible source of primary research material.
American Spectator
The American Spectator is a conservative U.S. monthly magazine covering news and politics featuring leading writers such as Thomas Sowell, Tom Wolfe, P.J. O'Rourke, George F. Will, Patrick J. Buchanan, Alex Linder and Malcolm Muggeridge.
Founded in 1967 as The Alternative, the publication gained prominence in the 1990s by reporting on political scandals, including the expose on Clarence Thomas accuser, Anita Hill. Other controversial subjects have featured articles on Hillary and Bill Clinton, including a January 1994 report about then-President Bill Clinton's sex life that contained the first reference in print to Clinton accuser, Paula Jones.
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Commentary Digital Archive
Commentary Digital Archive is an invaluable resource for educators, providing in-depth analysis of topics such as the cold war, the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy, defense, the Supreme Court, affirmative action, welfare, crime, immigration, religion, education, art, literature, classical music, and much more.
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Commonweal
Commonweal publishes editorials, columns, essays, poetry, reviews of books, movies, plays, the media, a selection of apposite and/or funny cartoons, and lots of letters to the editors. Liberal or Conservative - it depends on the issue and the writer. From its founding in 1924, the journal has held that America has much to learn from Catholicism, and vice versa - a core belief that has survived severe testing in disputes over the Spanish Civil War, civil rights, Vietnam, and much more.
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Harper's
Harper's Magazine (or simply Harper's) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. The second oldest continuously-published monthly magazine in the United States, Harper's was launched in June 1850.
Its early issues included material that had already been published in England, but the publication soon began to print the work of American artists and writers. It subsequently published commentaries by prominent politicians from both sides of the Atlantic, such as Winston Churchill and Woodrow Wilson. Other notable contributors include Horatio Alger, Stephen A. Douglas, Robert Frost, Henry James, Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and John Updike.
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National Review
National Review ("NR") is a conservative/libertarian political magazine founded in 1955 and is published biweekly. Fifty years after its founding, National Review is considered by many to be one of the United States' most politically influential conservative publications.
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North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1966.
NACLA provides policy makers, analysts, academics, organizers, journalists and religious and community groups with information on major trends in Latin America and its relations with the United States. The core of NACLA's work is its bimonthly magazine NACLA Report on the Americas, the most widely read English language publication on Latin America.
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Scientific American
Scientific American, the oldest continuously published magazine in the U.S., has been bringing its readers unique insights about developments in science and technology for more than 163 years. It synthesizes science, technology and business into the clearest views of our future.
Their expertise at pinpointing emerging trends has always been the hallmark of Scientific American - the first science and technology magazine. Each issue identifies and delivers the latest developments in biotechnology and information science, along with business-critical R&D across a broad range of fields. Scientific American combines unmatched credibility and authority for readers with a vision for the future.
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The Nation Digital Archive
The Nation is proud to be America's oldest continuously published journal of political and social commentary.
Our entire back file is available online as The Nation Digital Archive. Users can search the full text of every issue, as well as view and print scanned images of every page all the way back to 1865.
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The New Republic
When The New Republic was founded in 1914, its mission was to provide its readers with an intelligent, stimulating and rigorous examination of American politics, foreign policy and culture. It has brilliantly maintained its mission for over ninety years.
The New Republic covers issues before they hit the mainstream, from energy to the environment, from foreign to fiscal policy. By publishing the best writing from a variety of viewpoints -- including those from arts and culture, with literary criticism that sets the standard in the academic arena and among general readers alike -- The New Republic continues to be among America's best and most influential journals of opinion.
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The New York Review of Books
The archival collection of this premier literary-intellectual magazine offers access to over 40 years worth of fully searchable material, which includes more than 850 back issues and 16,000 articles, reviews, letters and original essays. Published since 1963, The New York Review of Books archives are a valuable resource for scholars, students, and library patrons interested in literature, culture and current affairs.
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