Research - Topic Guides - Newspapers
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| 18th Century Resources for Research: Periodicals | 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. http://home.earthlink.net/%7Eellengarvey/rsapresource1.html |
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902 | 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. http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/ |
| California Newspaper Project (CNP) | 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. http://www.cbsr.ucr.edu/cnp/ |
| El Clamor Publico Collection, 1855-1859 | A searchable collection of the complete issues of El Clamor Publico, "the first Spanish-language newspaper in California after the American occupation." Often featuring "strong political views generally in support of the Mexicanos," this Los Angeles weekly also published poetry and literature. http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/collectiondetails.jsp?collection=clamor&recordid=clamor-m235&issubcollection=false |
| Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection | This project includes digital versions of more than 60 newspapers from Colorado, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s. The database includes thousands of articles, graphics, letters to the editor, and advertisements. Searchable, or browsable by newspaper and date or by featured topic. http://www.cdpheritage.org/ newspapers/ |
| Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War | "This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of" World War II. Short historical articles highlight scanned items from the collection relating to topics such as propaganda, specific battles, and the Holocaust. In English and French. http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/ newspapers/ |
| Freedom's Journal | 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." http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/aanp/freedom/ |
| New York State Newspaper Project | 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. http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/nysnp/index.html |
| New York Times Archive, 1851-(last three years not available) | Digital archives for the New York Times from 1851 - (last three years not available). UNCW users only. |
| Historical Newspapers in Washington | 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. http://www.secstate.wa.gov/history/ newspapers.aspx |
| News About Jews | Database featuring digital images and catalog records of over 250 American newspaper articles from 1782-1898 that provide a picture of the daily life of Jews in the United States. Searchable. http://alpha3.jtsa.edu:4525/F?func=file&file_name=basic&local_base=naj01 |
| The Newspaper Library Web Catalogue (UK) | 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. http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/ newspapers.html |
| The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 |
Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, 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. http://www.accessible.com/search/prdcls.asp?s=206196869 |
| The Spectator Project | 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). http://tabula.rutgers.edu/spectator/ |
| The Stars and Stripes, 1918-1919 | "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." http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/ |
| Utah Digital Newspapers | 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. http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/unews/ |