Newspaper Digital Collections
Read through past issues of Western 九一麻豆制片厂 University-related and Kalamazoo-area newspapers.
WMU-related newspapers
Western Activist Archive
Alternative student newspaper produced by Western 九一麻豆制片厂 University students and faculty advisors; published weekly from 1966 to 1969.
The longest-running publication on Western 九一麻豆制片厂 University鈥檚 campus; includes an almost complete run of the newspaper from 1916 to 2009.
Kalamazoo-area newspapers
An African-American newspaper based in Kalamazoo; published bi-weekly from June 1965 to July 1966 and monthly after that. In April 1968, the name was changed to Focus News.
Kalamazoo鈥檚 longest, continuously produced newspaper reporting on news of interest to the African-American community; published from 1968 to 1982.
Weekly Catholic newspaper featuring news of area Catholic churches, schools and organizations; began publication on April 23, 1893. The newspaper changed its name to The Kalamazoo Augustinian in June 1893.
— Issues not digitized are at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Successor to The Kalamazoo Angelus newspaper featuring news of area Catholic churches, schools and organizations; began publication on June 18, 1893. The newspaper changed its name to The Augustinian in July 1905.
— Issues not digitized are at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Successor to The Kalamazoo Augustinian and featured news of area Catholic churches, schools and organizations; began publication on July 8, 1905, and continued until the 1930s.
—Issues not digitized are at the Zhang Legacy Collections Center.
Alternative weekly newspaper focusing primarily on regional news; published by John Prange from Aug. 23, 1979, to Feb. 19, 1987.
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