Research Guides: News Sources: Historical News Sources

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Individual Newspapers & Magazines: U.S.

New York Times
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Offers full-page-images and article images from the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable image files.
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The daily newspaper of record for the Philadelphia region. Online coverage 1860 to the present.

Wall Street Journal
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Bryn Mawr and Haverford have recent years; Swarthmore has 1889-present.
Chicago Tribune
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Provides full-page images and article images from the Chicago Tribune (1849-1987). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Los Angeles Times
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Provides full-page images and article images from the Los Angeles Daily Times (1881-1886) and the Los Angeles Times (1886-1988). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
Philadelphia Tribune (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1884)
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Founded in 1884, the Tribune is the oldest continually published African-American newspaper in the U.S. Early issues were lost; full page images start in 1912.
New York Tribune
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Provides comprehensive coverage of the New York tribune, with full text and complete page images from 1841-1922. Coverage includes the earlier titles of the paper, New-York tribune (New York, N.Y. :1841), and: New-York daily tribune. Every page from every issue is available in PDF files. Each issue is indexed and fully searchable.
Pennsylvania Gazette
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Provides full-text access to the Pennsylvania Gazette, a newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1728-1800.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The daily newspaper of record for the Pittsburgh region. Online coverage 1786 to the present.
Washington Post
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Use ProQuest Historical Newspapers for coverage from 1877.

Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865)
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All holdings include scanned page images and searchable text for all issues of The Nation published from 1865, except the current month.

Harper's Weekly
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Provides citations to Harper's Weekly magazine. Also contains browsable full-text of Harper's Weekly from the Civil War Era to the Gilded Age.

Newspaper Sets: U.S.

Accessible Archives
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Contains full-text primary resource materials in American history including newspapers, magazines, and genealogical records originally only offered on microfilm. Covers 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
African American Newspapers: the 19th century
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Contains full-text articles about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, including presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. Also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience. Covers 1827-1902 (with gaps).
African-American Newspapers 1827-1998
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Search through 280 African American newspapers from 35 states, published between 1827-1998. Includes Freedom's Journal (NY), the first African American-owned and operated newspaper.
America's Historical Newspapers
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Search through 2,000+ historical newspapers published in the United States between 1690-1922. Includes publications from all 50 states, large cities and small towns, and a mix of major newspapers and titles with smaller circulations.
Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 and abstracts about American newspapers published between 1690 to the present.
Early American Imprints: Series I, Evans (1639-1800)
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Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series I (1639-1800).
Early American Imprints: Series II, Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
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Covers American history and literature from the colonial period to the eighteenth century. Provides full-text digitization of the Early American Imprints microform set, Series II (1801-1819). Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States.

New York State Historic Newspapers
"Free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history."
Pennsylvania Historic Newspapers Collection
Digitized newspapers from the State Library of Pennsylvania collections.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
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Contains full-text transcriptions of articles, advertisements and statistics from newspapers published in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Covers works published from 1819-1870.

NewspaperArchive.com
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NewspaperARCHIVE.com contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. (from the website)

Individual Newspapers & Magazines: International

Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003
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Provides full-text access to the entire run of the Illustrated London News, the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. Contains high-quality color images of all pages, and all text is fully searchable. Offers insight into all areas of culture and world history for the period covered. Covers 1842-2003.
Sunday Times Digital Archive, 1822-2016
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Completely separate from the Times of London, the Sunday Times is known for their investigative journalism, providing commentary and analysis of the week's news.
The Times Digital Archive
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Provides full-text and full-image articles from The Times of London for the years 1785-2019.
TLS: The Times Literary Supplement
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Weekly magazine providing full-text reviews of recent publications in multiple disciplines, including literature, philosophy, history, politics, and the arts.

TLS, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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The TLS historical archive provides searchable access to the full text of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902. It includes more than 300,000 reviews, letters, poems, and articles.

Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985
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Published daily in Johannesburg, South Africa between 1902-1985. It was the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall. Complete, fully searchable digital edition featuring every page of every issue

The Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical News)
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Search full-text of British newspapers The Guardian and Observer from 1791-2003.

Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004
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Full-text articles and images from the Daily mail (1896-2004) and the Daily mail Atlantic edition (1923-1931).

International Newspapers and News

Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
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Browseable and searchable online collection of historical British newspapers, scanned in their original format. Covers 1800-1900.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
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Contains nearly 600 periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900.
African Newspapers
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Search through 40 newspapers published in African countries between 1800-1922. Includes newspapers in English, Portuguese, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans, and other languages.
Burney Collection Newspapers Archive, 17th & 18th Century
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Provides full text to the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), representing the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. Cross-search all Cengage subscribed newspaper collections via NewsVault.

Digitized European newspapers (Europeana)
Digitized newspapers from across Europe, 17th century on.
Google News Archive
Provides a timeline and full text or snippets of thousands of historical newspapers and other documents.
Google News Newspaper Archive
Browsable list of digitized newspapers from across the US and Canada; mostly 19th and 20th centuries.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
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FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. 1941-1996
For 1996-2013, use the World News Connection database instead.
World News Connection
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Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.

Digitized Australian print newspapers (1810-ca. 2010)
Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers
Searchable collection of historical newspapers with full page scans. Most content in this collection is from 1900-1950.

Scholarly & Popular Periodicals

Eight Centuries
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Includes over seventy seminal as well as lesser known contemporary indexes to English-language publishing prior to 1930. Access is by genre: 1. Multi-title Periodical Indexes (e.g., Poole's, Legal, Religion, Scientific Papers, etc.); 2. Book Indexes; 3. Newspaper Indexes; 4. Complete Individual Periodical Indexes (e.g., Harper's, Atlantic Monthly,etc.); 5. US Patents; Hansard's; US and UK Historical Government Documents
Periodicals Index Online
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Index (and some full text) to journal articles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from the 17th century to 1990s. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Readers' Guide Retrospective
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Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
American Periodicals Series Online
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Search through 1,800 magazines and journals published in the United States between 1740-1940. Includes early scientific publications, trade journals, popular magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal, and journals such as Puck, The Dial, and McClure's.
OpinionArchives
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OpinionArchives provides electronic archives for journals of opinion, including The Nation, Commentary, The New Republic, Commonweal, Dissent, NACLA, American spectator, National review, Harper's magazine, New York review, and the New Yorker. The OpinionArchives metasearch tool provides cross-journal searching for all titles in the archive.