News & Newspapers: News Archives

Searchable full text content of major African-American newspapers published during the 1800s with specific emphasis on New York, and East Coast African American history, as well as Canadian history. Covers many aspects of 19th century cultural life and history and contains original source materials written by African-Americans for African-Americans. The more complete microfilm versions of some of these newspapers are held by the UA Libraries.
Freedom's Journal, New York, 1827-Mar. 1829.
Colored American, New York, 1837- 1841.
The North Star, Rochester, NY, 1847- July 1851.
National Era, , Washington, DC, 1847- Mar. 1860.
Frederick Douglass Papers (continuation of The North Star,) 1852 - Dec. 1856.
Douglass' Monthly, Jan.1859 - Aug. 1863.
Provincial Freeman, Toronto, ON, 1854 - Dec. 1857.
The Christian Recorder, AME Church - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Toronto, ON, 1861 - Dec. 1887.

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published as a daily newspaper for 114 consecutive years, from 1841 to 1902, without missing a single edition. At one point the Eagle actually became the nation's most widely read afternoon newspaper. Unusual among major metropolitan daily newspapers of that time period, the Eagle chronicled national and international affairs as well as local news and daily life in Brooklyn. An excellent primary source for nineteenth century events.

The California Digital Newspaper Collection contains over 600,000 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.

Contains historical backfiles of the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courrier and other influential black newspapers

This is "an easy way to search and explore historical [news] archives." Some news articles are free, while the remainder are fee-based. Note: Before purchasing news articles, users are cautioned to check with their libraries to see if these articles are already available to them at no added cost. From Google. Annotation: Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index.
Search only newspaper archives at http://news.google.com/newspapers

Complete indexing, abstracting and full text coverage of all issues of The National Review from the first issue (1955) to the present. The National Review is a leading journal of opinion covering political, economic, social, and cultural issues and trends.

A fully searchable electronic version of the complete backfile of the Nation, a weekly journal of political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. 1865+

An archive of issues (1914+) of The New Republic, a biweekly journal covering American politics, foreign policy and culture.

Newspapers.com World Collection is an online database of 10,000+ historical newspapers from the early 1700s into the 2000s. It contains a diverse blend of full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to local newspapers in the United States and other English-speaking countries. It provides greater opportunities for longitudinal and comparative analysis of historical events and people.

Free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history.

Full text of The New York Times from 1851 through 2011. The full text of The New York Times from June 1, 1980 on is also available through the University Libraries' subscription to Lexis Nexis Academic. Please see this guide for information about searching the database.

In the late 1790s, North Carolina had local newspapers that served as important sources of information for town politics, births, deaths, agriculture, and a myriad of other topics. Now curious types in the 21st century can read these important and interesting newspapers online, courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/