Collection 2: U.S. News Media, c. 1989-2019

A collection of word-frequency and other data representing 94,816 unique articles mentioning “humanities” or “liberal arts” (no duplicate or close-variant documents) published mostly during 1989-2019 in 884 U.S. news sources and their associated blogs. (5,492 articles originate from earlier years going back to 1977.) WE1S and other researchers use this data to look for broad patterns and to help guide closer study.

The top 20 news sources (ordered by number of articles in descending order) are: New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle of Higher Education, News Day, Hartford Courant, Boston Globe, St Louis Post Dispatch, Oregonian, Birmingham News, Chicago Daily Herald, Dallas Morning News, Advocate (Baton Rouge), Star Ledger (Newark), Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), Stanford Daily (Stanford University), Knoxville News Sentinel, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Providence Journal. (Full sources and counts are available as a csv file in the Collection dataset.)

In this collection, the word “humanities” occurs 134,948 times in 82,077 documents; and “liberal arts” 20,335 times in 14,621 documents.

Kinds of Sources (by Tags)

Sources in Collection 2 are tagged (through metadata) as associated with categories that include those listed on the Metadata Tags for WE1S Document Sources page. (Sources are assigned to categories based solely on explicit publication information and/or self-identification.)