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Digital archives for the New York Times. Coverage Dates: 1851 - (last three years not available)
Published in Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. It provides the reader with a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods.
Palmer's Full Text Online gives students and researchers access to approximately one million articles from The Times®; covering almost a century of British and world history.
The following newspapers are available on microfilm. They are all located in the microfilm area on the first floor of the library.
Some are also available in paper and/or in full text through an online database, although the dates covered may vary between formats.
Georgia - Apr 1763-May 23, 1770
Maryland - Jan 17, 1745-Dec 12, 1839
Massachusetts - Dec 21, 1719-Sep 17, 1798
New York - Aug 31, 1752-Nov 10, 1783
New York - Oct 16, 1766-Aug 29, 1776
Pennsylvania - Dec 24, 1728-Dec 30, 1789
South Carolina - 1862: Jan 7, May 1
South Carolina - 1778: Nov 3; 1779: Jan 26 , Mar 23 , Nov 23; 1780: Jan 11, 18
South Carolina, Columbia - Apr 6, 1858-May 10, 1870
South Carolina, Columbia - Jan 17, 1863-Nov 19, 1864
South Carolina - Apr 9, 1777-Feb 9, 1780
South Carolina, Walhalla - May 18, 1849-Apr 27, 1861
South Carolina - Feb 12, 1852-Dec 26, 1866
South Carolina - Jan 6, 1860-Mar 29, 1872 (many issues missing)
South Carolina - 1864: Mar 17-Dec 29
Mar 3, 1781-May 23, 1781; May 19, 1781-Sep 28, 1782
South Carolina - 1780: Jun 8, 20 ; Jul 6 ; Sep 19, 21 ; Nov 21 ; Dec 5, 8, 19, 21, 25 1781: May 10, 17 1782: Mar 5, 21, 21 ; Apr 30 ; May 2, 7, 9 ; Jun 6 ; Jul 9, 11 ; Aug 13 ; Sep 10, 12
South Carolina - 1764: Apr 18; 1765: Jul 3 ; Oct 23-31; 1766: May 23; 1769: May 29; Jun 5, 1769-Dec 22, 1775; Jan 26, 1776-Feb 28, 1781
South Carolina - Dec 17, 1765-Dec 27, 1768; Jan 3, 1769-Nov 2, 1773; Nov 9, 1773-Aug 1, 1775
South Carolina - 1759: Oct 24-31 1760: Dec 10 1764: Mar 21
South Carolina, Greenville May 19, 1854-Sep 28, 1870
Virginia - 1865: Jan 2-Mar 29
Virginia - Sep 3, 1736-Dec 9, 1780
(China)- 1932-1945
This directory of full-text online periodicals features magazines (including children's), newspapers, comics, pulp magazines, and other serial publications from the 18th century to the present. Lists publications from the alternative presses, religious and atheist organizations, the government and military, and more.
Complete text of the Brooklyn, NY, newspaper, which chronicled national and international affairs as well as local news and daily life in Brooklyn. 1841-1902.
Contains a catalog of bibliographic records for "11,000 of an estimated total of 20,000 California newspapers published since 1846," representing the holdings of over 2,500 libraries, historical societies, and museums. Searchable by keyword, title, place, subject, publishing year, and holding institution. Also includes database of microfilm master negatives, and related links.
Freedom's Journal was the "first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States. The Journal was published weekly in New York City from 1827 to 1829. ... All 103 issues of the Freedom's Journal have been digitized and placed into Adobe Acrobat format."
This is an online database of 10,486 community newspapers on microfilm in New York State. The database tells you about the newspapers and where they are located (e.g., New York State Library), but it does not provide complete text of the newspapers themselves.
This project is part of Washington State Library's program to make its rare, historical resources more accessible. Search the growing collection by keyword or personal name, or browse by subjects such as industry, crime, pioneers, and religion.
Searchable database of the newspapers and magazines held by the British Library's Newspaper Library. Each entry contains information on the title (including any title changes), place of publication (town or city and country), and the dates which are held. Includes entries for over 50,000 newspaper and periodical titles from all over the world, dating from the 17th to the 21st century.
Offers "an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general." Provides the complete, searchable text of the periodicals (viewing requires download of free DJVU software).
"From February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919, by order of General John J. Pershing, the United States Army published a newspaper for its forces in France, The Stars and Stripes. This online collection, presented by the Serial and Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress, includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition."
Eighteen historical digitized newspapers from Utah, mostly from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, with more than 130,000 pages of text. Browsable by newspaper title or county, or searchable by keyword. Within a specific newspaper, browse by issue date or search for births, marriages, deaths, article titles, and keywords.
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