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The British Newspapers 1600-1950 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers.
British Periodicals provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images.
Earliest issue: August 20, 1958. Latest issue: December 31, 2000. Note: Issues published within the date range may be missing. Efforts to locate and add any such missing issues are ongoing.
A Freely Accessible Repository of Digitized California Newspapers from 1846 to the Present.
The California Newspaper Project is an 18 year effort by the CBSR to identify, describe and preserve California newspapers.
Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items, including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts, reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history.
This database offers access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1836-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
Includes articles from peer-reviewed journals and trade magazines covering mass media, marketing, communications, and related topics.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries.
Paley Center Seminars is a unique video collection of interviews and panel discussions recorded at The Paley Center for Media.
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.