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The Pennsylvania Gazette, published from 1728-1800, was one of the most prominent and successful newspapers in the American colonies and Early Republic.
Periodicals Archive Online is a major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.
Established by the French Ministry of State Education, Higher Education and Research, PERSEE is a portal for 60 full-text French scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Contains every issue (1938-1957) of the pioneering photo-journalism newspaper that was read by an estimated 80% of the British population at its peak.
Database of public opinion polls taken on a variety of subjects.
Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-1950 provides a unique perspective on the lives of the survivors, Jewish and non-Jewish, of the Holocaust and World War II.
The website's mission is to promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.
MUSE provides access to the complete content (including all images) of nearly 500 current scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
ProQuest Central serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels.
This database provides access to the full runs of eight newspapers from 1840-1865 and nearly 2000 pamphlets focusing on the entire Civil War era, from Manifest Destiny through the end of the Civil War.
The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City.
The first Jewish newspaper published in Cincinnati, and the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States.
Established in 1890 as a partisan political newspaper to promote Lewis Wolfley, the territorial governor. It struggled financially for the first few years.
Atlanta Daily World offers full page and article images with searchable full text.
Founded in 1871 as the Democratic Stateman, it was initially aligned with the Democratic party.
The most widely circulated black newspaper on the Atlantic coast.
The Baltimore Sun offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
The Boston Globe offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (March 4, 1872).
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905, and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read African American newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (April 23, 1849).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
The Christian Science Monitor offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Nov. 25, 1908).
In 1848 the Enquirer became the fifth U.S. newspaper to offer a Sunday edition.
Started in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan and merged with the Cleveland Post in 1929 to become the Call & Post Newspaper.
The first daily newspaper in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press provides first-hand accounts of the rise of industrialization in the Midwest, especially the development of the automobile industry.
The Globe was founded in 1812 by a Scottish immigrant active in the Reform Party.
The Hartford Courant offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (May 24, 1764).
Indianapolis Star (1923-2004) was founded in 1903, by industrialist George McCulloch to compete with two other Indianapolis papers. By1906, the Star had subsumed both competitors. Since then it has been the largest paper in Indiana.
Initially established as a Protestant nationalist newspaper, in the 1870s it took on unionist leanings and in modern times presents a politically liberal and progressive perspective.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
A weekly Jewish newspaper established in 1902, serving Boston and New England area.
A weekly community paper serving the Jewish interests of Philadelphia.
The Historic Los Angeles Sentinel provides full-text access to the most important African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles, from its founding in 1934 through 2005.
The Los Angeles Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Dec. 4, 1881).
The main newspaper for the city of Louisville, KY, created out of mergers of four newspapers between 1826-1868.
Nashville's main daily newspaper; it has undergone numerous mergers and acquisitions throughout the 19th century, emerging as the Nashville American in 1907.
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
The New York Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (September 18, 1851).
Originally called the New-York Daily Tribune, it was the dominant Whig Party and Republican newspaper in the U.S. through the 1860s.
As a southern black newspaper, the Norfolk Journal and Guide did not have the same freedoms as northern black newspapers and thus did not aggressively or openly denounce social and racial injustices.
The oldest continuously published black newspaper in the U.S.
One of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s.
Started in 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper, pledging "impartiality, firmness and independence".
The first English language newspaper published in Hong Kong.
In 1878, Joseph Pulitzer purchased the St. Louis Dispatch and merged it with the St. Louis Evening Post to create the St. Louis Post and Dispatch.
The Times of India (1838-2003) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
The Wall Street Journal offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (July 8, 1889).
The Washington Post offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue (Dec. 12, 1877).