LibGuides: Primary &amp; Secondary Sources: Newspapers

Newspapers

Library Databases

The majority of full text newspapers online are found within subscription databases. The library subscribes to the following databases that contain newspaper articles:

America's Historical Newspapers

Search and browse hundreds of U.S. newspapers published from 1690 through the 20th Century, including titles from all 50 states. Features the complete content of each issue, including news stories, illustrations, advertisements, cartoons and much more. America's Historical Newspapers consists of Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, and Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980.
American Periodicals Series
Primary source collection that includes full text access to over 1,000 American magazines and journals published between 1740-1943.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
GenderWatch

Over 250 full text academic journals, magazines, and newspapers covering gender, women's, and LGBT studies. Content from 1970-present.
New York Times (1851-current)

Searchable full text of the New York Times. Includes front-page headlines, classified ads, marriage and death announcements, comic strips, reviews, display advertising, editorials, birth notices, and photographs.
ABI/INFORM Dateline
ABI/INFORM Dateline contains full-text regional titles useful in studying business. It specializes in hard-to-find regional business publications with news and analysis of local companies and markets.

Free online resources

Find many more online newspaper archives on the guide pages for specific subjects.

Google News Archive
Search results include content from a number of sources, including both partner content digitized by Google through their News Archive Partner Program and online archival materials that they've crawled. Search results can include content that is freely accessible as well as content that requires a fee. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the topics they are searching.
Times Machine (New York Times)
(limited access) Issues from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a pilot project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) at the Library of Congress.
Journalism.net
List of newspaper archives around the world.