Collection 21: U.S. Top Newspapers, 2000-2018

Collection 21 contains data representing all 15,692 articles from its set of sources in these years mentioning "humanities" but only a sampling of the 388,691 articles mentioning "science" or "sciences" from those same sources and years. It downsamples "science(s)" articles (while maintaining the proportions of articles from particular sources and years) to achieve a 50/50 balance of articles related to the humanities and sciences. The purpose is to allow media discourse on the humanities to be studied alongside that on the sciences and not be buried so far down in the statistical pile that it cannot easily be seen in detail. Collection 21 is thus not a representation of the relative weight of discussion of the humanities and sciences but instead an aid to studying the fine features and structures of each.

News sources in Collection 21 include: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Daily News (New York), Dallas Morning News, Denver Post, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, New York Times (and its blogs), Newsday (New York), Seattle Times, Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), Tampa Bay Times, USA Today, Washington Post.