Description: The Accessible Archives databases contain the full text of important American newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They include the Pennsylvania Gazette from 1728 to 1800, which was the leading English-language newspaper of the continent. This newspaper contains over 40 million words and provides a first hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution, and the New Republic, and it offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of the period. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items, and advertisements cover the entire hemisphere and give a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times.
The Civil War segment has the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and The Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. Coverage begins with the events preceding the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter, continues through the surrender at Appomattox, and concludes with the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. A great effort has been made also to include articles that describe military concerns of the day as well as such topics as travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, and social events. Since the major events are reported in detail by both Union and Confederate papers, their opposing perspectives are readily available for comparative evaluation.
The third major segment of the database contains twelve million words from several of the major African-American newspapers of the nineteenth century. Together they provide a wealth of information about the cultural life and history and provide first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day. This segment also contains large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements that embody the African-American experience.
The fourth segment is Godey's Lady's Book from 1830 to 1855. Intended to entertain, inform, and educate the women of America, it contained fashion descriptions and plates, biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies, and extensive book reviews and works by 19th century authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Description: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 offers researchers valuable primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary and social history; ethnic studies and more. Users can compare and contrast African American views on practically every major theme of the American past.
Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more. Teachers and students will find firsthand perspectives on notable Americans from Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington to W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as obituaries, advertisements, editorials and illustrations.
Description: This collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The newspapers also contain large numbers of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
Starting with the Freedom’s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of 10 to 12 million words of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Never before has such important original source material written by African- Americans for African-Americans been readily available for research and fresh interpretation by historians, sociologists, educators and students. See web site's "Database Description" for detailed information about individual newspapers. (Source: vendor website.)
Description: This database contains the fulltext of over 40 newspapers published in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.Full text: yes
Description: Alt-Press Watch provides full text access to alternative and independent newspapers, magazines, and journals, publications which bring perspectives, insights, and opinions not often found in mainstream journalism. This product offers over 500,000 articles from nearly 200 publications.
Description: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690 to the 1920s, provides access to hundreds of thousands of newspaper issues from about 2000 newspapers from Colonial America to the Roaring Twenties. The papers were published in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.Full text: yes
Description: This database includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimile images.
The remarkably diverse subjects of broadsides range from contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports. American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 also offers autobiographies and dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, publishers' prospectuses, advertisements, newspaper carriers' addresses, patriotic and popular songs and poems and items illustrating political party organizations and controversies.
American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 can be cross-searched with all other Archive of Americana digital collections that UNC libraries own.
Description: American City Business Journals includes content from 40 city/regional business journals, including the Triangle Business Journal, the Charlotte Business Journal, and most major metropolitan areas. Special content like rankings, lists and data are available in addition to standard news and in-depth reporting.Full text: yes
Description: German language only. ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online now has over 20 different newspapers with selective full-text coverage from the period 1780 to 1937. It serves as a portal to historical journals, periodicals, and newspapers published in the Habsburg Monarchy and Austria. The site enjoys the cooperation of the Austrian Parliamentary Library in providing historical journalistic sources online. This project, of special interest to researchers and historians of East Central Europe, also contributes to the conservation of the original documents by providing access to high quality PDF files. Additional content continues to be added.Full text: yes
Description: AP Archive offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories from the archive of The Associated Press via the AP Archive YouTube Channel. 1895-presentFull text:
Description: Archive of Americana is a rich collection of primary source materials for in-depth study of the history of the United States. Component parts include:
America's Historical Newspapers, about 2000 titles from 1690 to 1920s
Early American Imprints Series I and II, over 70,000 printed works from 1639 to the 1820s
American Broadsides and Ephemera, over 30,000 documents from 1639 to 1900.
African American Newspapers 1827-1998
Afro-Americana Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1535-1922
Description: The Atlanta Constitution, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the publishing history of the newspaper from 1868 to 1945. Proquest is adding post-1945 content as it is digitized. Researchers can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can use the searchable ASCII text that underlies images of articles and pages to search by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved, including article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, a researcher simply clicks on the title in the list and the system displays the image of the full article, 'threaded' to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers also can display the complete image of any page in any issue or even browse the database and scan individual issues page by page. Note that the Atlanta Consititution has, at various times, also been known as: The Atlanta Daily Constitution, The Atlanta Daily, and The Constitution.Full text: yes
Description: The Atlanta Daily World had the first black White House correspondent and was the first black daily in the nation in the 20th century. (from the vendor’s website)Full text: yes
Description: Balkan Insight is a publication of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), that focuses on news, analysis, commentary and investigative reporting from the Western Balkans Region: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. Premium Content includes access to Balkan Transitional Justice, offering news and analysis on transitional justice issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Kosovo.Full text: yes
Description: Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy, Sr when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy’s daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper’s contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Through the decades, the newspaper fought for equal employment rights, urged African-American participation in politics, and advocated state-funded higher education for blacks. In the 1930s, The Afro-American launched 'The Clean Block' campaign, which is still in existence today, to clean up inner-city neighborhoods and fight crime. It stationed correspondents in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, providing first-hand reports to readers. In the 1950s, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the newspaper’s efforts contributed to the outlawing of public school segregation.Full text: yes
Description: The Baltimore Sun (1837-1987) is among the most distinguished newspapers in American journalism. It represented this bustling port city by reporting on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, Washington D.C. politics, Americana, and literature. H.L. Mencken, the “Sage of Baltimore,” and one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century, wrote for this renowned newspaper. Founded by Arunah Shepherdson Abell 40 years before the Washington Post, this newspaper focused on the news that most directly affected the lives of its readers. This online version is part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, which provides researchers with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time.Full text: yes
Description: This database offers online access to national, regional, and local British newspapers held in the British Library. The papers, which have been selected by an editorial board from the British Library, provide a broad yet detailed view of British life; including business, sport, politics, entertainment, and the arts. The collection is made up of daily and weekly publications and reflects Britain's growing role as a superpower. The database also offers contextual essays regarding the role of newspapers in the Victorian age, bibliographic headnotes and a chronological overview. Support from the Harry K. Russell and Dougald MacMillan Fund helped the Library acquire this database.
Nineteenth Century Newspapers II (acquired 2011) enhances the original archive with 22 new titles.
British Newspapers III (acquired 2013) and IV (acquired 2014) enhance the original archive with new titles and expanded dates, 1780 – 1950.
Description: Over 300 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features.Full text: yes
Description: This is a fully searchable, primary-source collection of over 130 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from twenty-two Caribbean islands. Most newspapers were published in the English language, but a number of Danish-, French-, and Spanish-language titles are included--essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce and relations, New World slavery, and related topics.Full text: yes
Description: Though published in Chicago, this major African American newspaper actually had more readers outside that city.Full text: yes
Description: The Chicago Tribune, part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper from 1849-1987. Researchers and students can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can search the ASCII text that underlies the images of articles and pages by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results include detailed bibliographic information: article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, the user simply clicks on the title in the list, and the system displays the image of the full article, 'threaded' to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers and students can also display the complete image of any page in any issue or browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.Full text: yes
Description: Chronicling America allows you to identify newspapers of all kinds published in America from 1690 to the present, see details about them, and find libraries that hold the papers either in paper or microform. Chronicling America provides free access to historic U.S. newspapers published from 1836 through 1922. North Carolina newspapers number among the titles available from more than 30 states and the District of Columbia. Other languages besides English are represented, as are specialty newspapers such as labor union, ethnic, immigrant, and agricultural.Full text: yes
Description: This database consists of articles reporting on the Civil War from important newspapers as well as first-person accounts of the soldiers and officers who fought in the conflict. It consists of over 2500 issues of the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury and Richmond Enquirer, plus newspapers from the Midwest that present the war from different political perspectives. Included are descriptive news articles, eye-witness accounts and official reports of battles and events, editorials, advertisements and biographies. A great effort has been made also to include articles that describe topics beyond the military concerns of the day, such as travel, arts and leisure, geographical descriptions, sports and sporting, and social events.
The database also includes books written after the war by both generals and ordinary soldiers. The latter provide an in-depth look at the day-to-day actions of the troops themselves, primarily in the form of regimental histories. Usually written by an individual, but sometimes compiled by a committee, these books were published after the war to document what actually happened. While some battle and war narratives are included, the focus was primarily on the individual. The accounts of the generals allow a look into the way the battles were fought. Here the emphasis is on strategies and tactics as planned an executed by the commanding officers, with a longer-term view as opposed to daily concerns. As memoirs, many of the books go beyond the war to describe an officer's entire career. The contents also include a large variety of letters and other correspondence. While the emphasis is on the Union, a number of Confederate generals' narratives are included
Description: The DTH Headline Archive is an index of the headlines in the Daily Tar Heel from August 1970 - 2003.
Staff are adding entries for the 2003/2004 school year, Summer 2004, and will continue indexing future issues. In addition, pre-1970 issues will be archived soon.
A search will give you the date of the issue, the headline title, the page number, and the subjects assigned to the article. (1000 results max)NOTE: The Full-Text of articles is not available through the index.
Description: DigitalNC is the online home for materials presented by the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. It includes yearbooks from NC colleges and universities, NC newspapers, NC city directories, photos from NC and other historical materials about North Carolina.Full text: yes
Description: Consisting of more than 8,000 issues and 600,000 completely text-searchable pages, since first publication in 1843, the Economist has presented timely reporting, concise commentary and comprehensive analysis of global news every week.
With objective authority, clarity and wit, it presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. Because of its global editorial perspective, it is read by more of the world's political and business leaders than any other magazine. The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-color images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
The easy-to-use resource provides readers with a fundamental collection of high-quality primary material, including every leader, special report, letter and every piece of advertising across a wide range of subject areas. Tabular matter forming the Key Economic Indicators section can be exported and manipulated separately.
Go to the E-Journal Finder to get access to the current files of The Economist.
Description: Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. This collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provides a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. Free-text searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch easy to search. Publishers retain original copyright. For reprint information beyond fair use, contact individual publisher(s). Click on the publication logo to learn more about a publication.Full text: yes
Description: Factiva.com covers information on industries, public and private companies, business and management topics, current awareness information, and historical news. Combines over 9,000 sources from the Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing to provide premium business content from 118 countries and in 22 languages. Factiva is very strong in trade journals and company reports. Includes:
*1,500+ newspapers - same-day and archival coverage of the world's most influential newspapers, including Barrons, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Le Monde, Les Echos, The Guardian and New York Times. Factiva also includes local newspapers from every corner of the globe.
*3,500+ journals and magazines - access the latest issues of thousands of leading business and industry publications, including The Economist, Finanz & Wirtschaft, Satellite News, Computerworld and Journal of Organizational Analysis
*500+ newswires - breaking news from Dow Jones, Reuters and The Associated Press, as well as PR Newswire, M2 Presswire and other regionally focused and industry newswires
*230+ broadcast transcripts - from organizations such as BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox
*20,000+ company reports - customized profiles of companies, from around the world
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Description: Complete online fully-searchable facsimile edition of the FT offers the complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue to the end of 2008. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. Special supplements and the FT Magazine are included. Founded to serve the immediate needs of the City of London, the Financial Times quickly broadened its coverage, recognizing that global financial and economic issues were to become the predominant forces of the twentieth century. Incorporating its rival the Financial News in 1945, the Financial Times expanded in the post-war years, reporting on topics such as industry, energy and international politics in full for the first time.Full text: yes
Description: The original mission of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, many of which are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. More than 50 languages, from Arabic to Swahili, have been translated into English. FBIS is a one-of-a-kind archive of transcriptsFull text: yes
Description: Gale NewsVault allows you to cross-search a variety of newspaper and periodical databases:
17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
British Newspapers, 1780 – 1950
Times (London) Digital Archive
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Financial Times Historical Archive
19th Century U.S. Newspapers
19th Century UK Periodicals
Economist Historical Archive
Description: The Guardian and The Observer are two major newspapers from the United Kingdom, and offer additional perspective to that of the Times of London.Full text: yes
Description: Full text of the Greensboro News and Record (1996-), Winston-Salem Journal (1997-), Atlanta Journal Constitution(1996-), and more than 150 other regional United States and foreign newspapers.Full text: yes
Description: Through Infotrac Newsstand, all NC LIVE member libraries will have full text access to The New York Times from 1985 – present; selective historic full text from 18 North Carolina based newspapers; and selective current full text to another 15 NC newspapers, including the Daily News (Jacksonville), the Sun Journal (New Bern), the Star (Shelby), the Times-News (Burlington), the Mountaineer (Waynesville). In addition to the titles already listed, Infotrac Newsstand indexes and provides access to 2,500 additional newspapers, newswires, and radio and TV news transcripts.Full text: yes
Description: The ICON Database of International Newspapers is a freely accessible electronic resource intended to provide reliable information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions' holdings of the same. The database serves as a central locus for information on international newspaper collections available in North American libraries and in selected libraries outside North America, providing a tool for resource discovery, access, and collection management.Full text: yes
The Latin America Data Base (LADB) is an online publisher and information resource that produces three weekly electronic publications (Sourcemex, NotiCen and NotiSur) and maintains an online searchable data base of over 24,000 articles compiled from back issues of LADB publications and other Latin American journals.Full text: yes
Description: More than 35 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.Full text: yes
Description: Latin American Newspapers II is a searchable collection of historical Latin American newspapers. Once completed this collection will include 35 newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th century in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela.Full text: yes
Description: ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full-text content in Spanish and Portuguese from 41 newspapers from Puerto Rico and 11 Latin American countries, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. The complete articles are available in ASCII format. Key newspaper titles include El Universal, Mexico City's largest-selling newspaper; O Globo (Brazil); La Nacion (Argentina); and El Mercurio (Chile). Three business titles, El Economista (Mexico), Valor Economico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia) are also important resources for researchers.Full text: yes
Description: The Los Angeles Times, part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper from 1881-1986. Researchers and students can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can search the ASCII text that underlies the images of articles and pages by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results include detailed bibliographic information: article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, the user simply clicks on the title in the list, and the system displays the image of the full article, 'threaded' to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers and students can also display the complete image of any page in any issue or browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.Full text: yes
Description: The Louisville Courier-Journal, published in the state's largest city, is a paper of record for Kentucky and regional history.Full text: yes
Description: The Nashville Tennessean, published in the state capital, is a paper of record for Tennessee and regional history.Full text: yes
Description: Perhaps the leading African American newpaper, the NY Amsterdam News covered the Harlem Renaissance, the World War II period, and the civil rights movements, among major social and political events affecting African Americans.Full text: yes
Description: The New York Times, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers 3,400,000 pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to 2 or 3 years ago. Researchers can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can use the searchable ASCII text that underlies images of articles and pages to search by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved, including article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, a researcher simply clicks on the title in the list and the system displays the image of the full article, "threaded" to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers also can display the complete image of any page in any issue or even browse the database and scan individual issues page by page. The database is available on the Web through ProQuest.Full text: yes
Description: Access to the News & Observer via NewsBank America's NewsFull text: yes
Description: Access to the News and Observer online directly from the publisher. Full text articles are available free for the most recent week's editions. Choose Search Archives to search back issues. "The News & Observer archive contains most articles from The News & Observer from July 1990 to present and articles from The Chapel Hill News beginning with the year 2000. It includes both editorial and classified obituaries. It does not include retail or classified advertising, photos, graphics, entertainment or community listings, weather or sports agate, some syndicated columnists or non-local sports game stories.
Single article $1.95, one day subscription $4.95, one week subscription $9.95. (Prices as of April 16, 2002) Current home subscribers can access the archive free of charge (Source: Vendor website.)
Description: This is an alphabetical list of names and subjects, with references to the Raleigh News & Observer articles in which they occur. This is not a database of articles; rather, it is an index guiding you to articles with more information about your research topic.
Librarians from the State Library of North Carolina indexed topics and personal names from articles and selected obituaries that appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer from 1926 to 1992 (some years are currently missing from the index, namely 1978-1981). The index, until 1977, was typed onto catalog cards. The cards are now scanned and mechanically transcribed. The records created after 1977 were typed directly into a database, so no actual catalog cards were created. (From publisher's website)
Description: Newspaper Source Plus provides complete full-text coverage of 149 national and international newspapers, such as Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Times (London), Toronto Star, Washington Post, and Washington Times. Additionally offered is selective full text from over 400 regional U. S. newspapers and transcripts from CBS News, CNN, Fox News, NPR, etc.Full text: yes
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Description: The Serials Information Services newspaper database is for print and microform newspapers currently received by Davis Library, House Undergraduate Library, the North Carolina Collection, and Park Library. Users can find these newspapers by country of origin, language, or library location. Some newspapers may be found by searching by city or state of publication.Full text:
Description: Newspapers.com provides access to historic newspapers from the 1700s to the present. UNC users have access to a large selection of North Carolina newspapers through a partnership between Newspapers.com and the UNC University Library.Full text: yes
Description: This provides access to about 500 newspapers from localities all across the United States during the 19th Century. This material covers the expansion of the America across the continent, the early growth of American democracy, the American Civil War and Reconstruction, African American life, the development of industry, and US expansion overseas, among many other events.Full text: yes
Description: Paper of Record is a fully searchable digital archive of historical newspapers. The archive contains newspapers from Europe and the Americas, chiefly from the 19th century, but with some running up to the 2000s. Countries included:
UK, USA, Australia, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Mexico.
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Description: The Philadelphia Tribune, the oldest continuously published black newspaper, is dedicated to the needs and concerns of the fourth largest black community in the U.S. During the 1930s the paper supported the growth of the United Way, rallied against the riots in Chester, PA, and continuously fought against segregation. (from the vendor’s website)Full text: yes
Description: Urging African-Americans to actively participate in shaping their political destinies—and often leading the charge—the Pittsburgh Courier was once the most widely circulated black newspaper in the U.S. in the early 20th century. The newspaper campaigned for increasing the number of black physicians and opening a hospital to serve the black community in Pittsburgh, where white facilities often refused to provide services. In the 1930s, the newspaper led a nationwide protest against the Amos ‘n’ Andy radio show and its advertisers because of the media’s offensive portrayal of African-Americans. The publication’s 'Double V' campaign during World War II demanded equal rights at home for black soldiers risking their lives overseas.Full text: yes
Description: ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides online access to the newspapers listed below as if one is reading the papers on microfilm but with 24/7 access from one's office, residence, the library, or a Wi-Fi hotspot. Currently only 2008 to date, except for the most recent two to three months, is available. The images can be magnified for one's viewing needs and articles can be printed or saved.
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
San Francisco Chronicle (2008-2011)
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
Best viewed in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Description: Search the following historic newspapers together:
American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)
American Israelite (1854-2000)
Atlanta Constitution (1868 to 1945)
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Baltimore Sun (1837-1987)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975)/Daily Defender (1956-1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1989)
Jewish Advocate (1905-1990)
Jewish Exponent (1887-1990)
Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1989)
Louisville Courier-Journal (1830-1922)
Nashville Tennessean (1812-1922)
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
New York Times (1851 to 2 or 3 years ago)
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
Washington Post (1877 to 1995)
Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1995).
Search hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles. Includes news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements. Historical photos, graphics, and advertisements are also included. Display the complete image of any page in any issue or browse the database to scan individual issues page by page.
Description: Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.
Titles in the collection include: North China Herald (1850-1941), Canton Times (1919-1920), China Critic (1939-1946), The China Press (1925-1938), China Weekly Review (1917-1953), Chinese Recorder (1868-1940), Chinese Repository (1832-1851), Peking Daily News (1914-1917), Peking Gazette (1915-1917), Peking Leader (1918-1919), Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921)and Shanghai Times (1914-1921).
Description: News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines.Full text: yes
Description: General reference database from business and political science to literature and psychology scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and daily news content, accessible to readers and researchers at every level.Full text: yes
Description: South Carolina Newspapers offers segments of four 18th Century South Carolina Newspapers: South Carolina Gazette; South Carolina & American General Gazette; South Carolina Gazette and Country Journal; Gazette of the State of South Carolina.Full text: yes
Description: The Sunday Times, published since 1822, is a rich complement to the Times (London) Digital Archive.Full text: yes
Description: The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2006 is a full-image online archive of every page in the complete run of the world's oldest continuously published newspaper. The Times, the 'world's newspaper of record,' covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The database enables users to search the full-text of the entire newspaper. The text within the images is also fully searchable at the article level. Users can therefore search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds - virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level, and users may view the article or the full page upon which it appeared. A Browse feature allows for searching through a specific issue of the paper via individual page images. Please note that online coverage of the Times after 2006 is available in several sources. See here.Full text: yes
Description: Udndata, an article-specific database, was established by UDN Online in February 2001 to provide news articles from five major newspapers published by the United Daily News Group. The newspapers include United daily news, Min sheng daily, United evening news, Economic daily news, and Star news. Also included are several news magazines such as Global view monthly and some Chinese newspapers published outside Taiwan.Full text: yes
Description: Universal Database of Russian Newspapers offers access to full-text electronic versions of major Russian and many NIS periodicals on the same day they are published. The Universal database includes archives of back issues of newspapers and journals (some go back as far as 1996). Most of the newspapers are available on microfilm. The Universal Database is an excellent source for information on business, economics, domestic and foreign policy and important political events in Russia and the former Soviet Union. The Database search mechanism enables global searching across all the above mentioned newspapers, individual titles or particular issues, as well as archival searches.Full text: yes
Description: This database was designed to provide coverage of developments in Russia on the regional and local levels. It currently contains 73 titles from 54 Russian regions of the Russian Federation, as well as newspapers covering local issues of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Researchers can use this database to quickly access a variety of local news, as well as trace local reactions to national and international events. The database covers regions such as the investment-oriented Volga region, Chechnya, northern Ossetia, oil and gas-rich Western Siberia, and many others. The newspapers on the database have the largest circulation in their regions and are considered as the most authoritative regional news sources.Full text: yes
Description: The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Copies of tapes are available for a fee; however, patrons associated with educational institutions that subscribe to the Archive will be able to view online video from the Archive's collection of CNN and NBC material.
Description: The Wall Street Journal: Eastern Edition is the financial newspaper of record. It is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. (Source: vendor website.)Full text: yes
Description: The Wall Street Journal, which is part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper from 1889-1992. Researchers and students can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can search the ASCII text that underlies the images of articles and pages by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results include detailed bibliographic information: article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, the user simply clicks on the title in the list, and the system displays the image of the full article, 'threaded' to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers and students can also display the complete image of any page in any issue or browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.Full text: yes
Description: The Washington Post, part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers hundreds of thousands of pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper from 1877 to 1990. Researchers and students can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements. They can search the ASCII text that underlies the images of articles and pages by keyword, using Boolean operators and more advanced searching techniques. The results include detailed bibliographic information: article title, publication, issue date, author, and page number. To see a complete article, the user simply clicks on the title in the list, and the system displays the image of the full article, 'threaded' to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers and students can also display the complete image of any page in any issue or browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.Full text: yes
Description: World Newspaper Archive is a large and growing collection of digitized newspapers from around the world from the 19th and 20th centuries. Components include:
African Newspapers, more than 40 papers published from around 1800 to the 1920s
Latin American Newspapers, More than 35 Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere.
South Asian Newspapers, provides online access to a select group of South Asian newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
These components can be searched individually or together, and cross-searched with America's Historical Newspapers.