CMU LibGuides: Architecture: Architectural History

Helpful Research Guides

Newspaper Articles

New York Times This link opens in a new window
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849 - current minus 24 years) This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: New York Times (1851 - ca. current minus 3 years) This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-1950 This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1786-2003 This link opens in a new window

See a complete list of current and historical newspapers available through the University Libraries.

Research Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window Find articles in American history periodicals.
Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window An index to art journals and selected architecture journals. Includes some citations that the Avery Index misses, and features many full text articles.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals This link opens in a new window Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on architecture and related fields.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Database of citations and abstracts to journals articles, book reviews, and dissertations in the areas of history, anthropology, political science, religion, etc. for all countries except the United States and Canada.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text is available for select e-books and issues of many scholarly journals including Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture
OpenBibArt This link opens in a new window OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 This link opens in a new window Index to articles in popular magazines and journals

US Modernist Library A browsable and broadly searchable open digital archive of major 20th-Century American architecture publications.

Research Collections

Library of Congress: Digital Collections

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 This link opens in a new window

Building Technology Heritage Library
Online collection of period architectural trade catalogs. (Association for Preservation Technology, Int.)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
Measured drawings, photographs, and written histories for thousands of historic structures and sites. (Library of Congress)
Historic Pittsburgh
Online collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Pittsburgh documents
Making of America
A digital library of nineteenth-century primary sources in American social history. (University of Michigan)
SAH Archipedia
An online encyclopedia of the U.S. built environment that contains histories, photographs, and maps for over 20,000 structures and places. (Society of Architectural Historians)
Urban Planning, 1794-1918
An international anthology of articles, conference papers, and reports. (John W. Reps, Cornell University)