Now available online: the entire archive of the Commonwealth Times, VCU's student newspaper. This digital collection includes over 1,680 issues of the Commonwealth Times, spanning the years from 1969 through 2010. The Commonwealth Times began publishing in September 1969, at the peak of the political and social turmoil of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The changing cultural attitudes of those times were reflected in the newspaper and over the decades the CT has continued to try to capture the events and essence of the university. The CT continues to publish in print but is also available online.
Each issue up to the summer of 2004 has been scanned in its entirety from original print copies. Starting with September 2004, we are presenting digital archive PDFs received directly from the Commonwealth Times. The complete text of every issue is fully searchable. A text search can also be narrowed to only search front page headlines. For each issue, there is a link to a full PDF of the entire issue.
This collection is part of the VCU Libraries Digital Collections, a growing resource for the VCU and global communities.