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Newspapers and Current Events
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Roberto C. Delgadillo —
October 12, 2020
Newspapers and Current Events
by
Roberto C. Delgadillo —
October 12, 2020
Newspapers and Current Events
by Roberto C. Delgadillo – October 12, 2020
This guide provides a list of major library resources for newspapers and current events at UC Davis.
Key Resources: Subject Specific Databases
17th – 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers [via Gale]
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The digital Burney Collection provides full text access to almost 1 million pages and approximately 1,270 newspapers, pamphlets, broadsides and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The resource represents the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English and British colonial news media that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press".
19th Century US Newspapers [via Gale]
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19th Century US Newspapers (NCNP) provides access to over 28 million articles of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century, featuring full-text content and images from newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history,Western migration and the Antebellum-era among other subjects. Newspapers from all 19th-century U.S. states and territories are included.
Acceda Noticias [via NewsBank]
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A subset of Access World News, Acceda Noticias consists of 36 full-text newspapers and news services in the Spanish language from the United States and selected foreign countries.
Access World News [via Readex/Newsbank]
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Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Access World News also includes a selection of Spanish language newspapers from the United States and other countries. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Local interest: San Francisco Chronicle Digital (date coverage 1923-1984).
African American Newspaper Collection [via Accessible Archives]
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Full-text of seven 19th Century African American Newspapers: Freedom's Journal, The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, The Christian Recorder. Coverage varies by newspaper.
African Newspapers from the World Newspaper Archive [via Newsbank]
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Full text of sixty-nine historic newspapers from different African cities. Coverage differs per title. Dates range and represents 1800-1920s. This selection is a subsection of Readex’s World Newspaper archive. See link below.
America’s Newspapers [via NewsBank]
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Full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for over 600 U.S. newspapers. The “America’s Newspapers” product has been expanded to “Access World News” with many more U.S. and California titles plus hundreds of international news sources.
California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC)
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The CDNC provides full text access to more than 5 million articles and 400,000 pages of 21 significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-2009, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. The San Francisco Call, the Sacramento Transcript and the Sacramento Daily Union also are included in the CDNC.
California Newspapers [via NewsBank Access World News]
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Search California Newspapers in NewsBank’s “America’s Newspapers” database. Search more than 100 California titles, or search a smaller set of Northern California papers under “Local Papers.” Among the California newspapers included are: Davis Enterprise (1997-), Fresno Bee (1986-current), Modesto Bee (1989-current), Orange County Register (1987- current), Sacramento Bee (1984-current), San Francisco Chronicle (1985-current), San Jose Mercury News (1985-current) and San Diego Union-Tribune (2000-current).
California’s Historical Newspapers [via Newsbank] [via Readex Newsbank]
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This full text collection of 13 California Newspapers covering the period between 1850 and 1900 is a subset of America's Historical Newspapers and can be searched separately or in combination with the other partsby selecting them from the dropdown menu.
Davis Enterprise [via NewsBank America’s Newspapers]
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Search and retrieve full text of the Davis Enterprise from August 1997 forwards. Excludes advertisements and graphics.
Digital Microfilm Newspapers, (2008 to Recent) [via ProQuest]
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Scanned (not searchable) page images of:
Los Angeles Times (Library ed.)
Wall Street Journal (Eastern ed.)
Washington Post (Final ed.)
New York Times (East Coast, Late ed.)
Other resources may include searchable full-text for these newspapers but not images of the actual printed pages.
Early American Newspapers [via NewsBank]
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This is a subset of America's Historical Newspapers and can be searched separately or in combination with the other parts by selecting them from the dropdown menu. Series 1: From Colonies to Nation and Series 2: The New Republic include newspapers drawn from the American Antiquarian Society and from the collections of other institutions and societies.Note: These parts can be accessed directly using the following URLs. For Part 1: http://uclibs.org/PID/42513 For Part 2: http://uclibs.org/PID/275700.
Ethnic Newswatch [via ProQuest]
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A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in the United States.
Factiva [via Dow Jones / ProQuest]
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General and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Google Newspaper Archive
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Google has a growing collection of digitized historic and contemporary newspapers mostly from the U.S. and Canada. It’s hard to know exactly what is included, but this link goes to the alphabetical list of papers including the years covered and number of issues scanned.
Latin American Newspapers [via Newsbank]
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The database includes the full-text content from 24 historic and influential newspapers published in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Argentina and other Latin American countries. Publication dates range from 1845 to 1922.
Lian he zhi shi ku 聯合知識庫= News Database=UDNDATA (Chinese Database)
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UDNDATA is a newspaper database of the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan. UDNDATA covers seven Chinese newspapers in Taiwan, Europe and North America: Lian He Bao 聯合報, Jing Ji Ri Bao 經濟日報, Min Sheng Bao 民生報, Lian He Wan Bao 聯合晚報, Xing Bao 星報 in Taiwan, Ouzhou Ri Bao 歐洲日報 in Europe and Meizhou Shi Jie Ri bao 美洲世界日報 in North America. The online database provides current and searchable full-text articles, as well as searchable images, published on the above seven newspapers. It is not only a major information source in Taiwan, but also an important information sources on overseas Chinese in Europe and North America.
London Times [via Historic Newspapers Online]
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Search Palmer’s Index to The Times, 1790-1905 and the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980. Includes full-text for 1800-1870.
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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The Los Angeles Sentinel is the flagship newspaper of the local African-American community. The database provides coverage from 1934 to 2005.
Los Angeles Times (1985-current) [via Proquest Current Newspapers]
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Current full-text content of the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Times [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Historical coverage of the Los Angeles Times, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue in 1881 through 1995.
New York Times via Proquest Current Newspapers
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Current full-text of the New York Times (including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review).
New York Times via Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Historical coverage of the New York Times from 1857-2016, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue.
Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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Historical coverage of the Philadelphia Tribune from 1912-2001, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue.
Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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The Pittsburgh Courier was "one of the most nationally circulated Black newspapers, the Pittsburgh Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Pittsburgh Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights." Permanent access through 2002. 2003-2010 will continue to be available at least through Spring, 2022.
Pravda Digital Archive 1912-2009 [via East View]
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"Pravda was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers' newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. After the collapse of the USSR, nationalist and communist journalists intermittently published a print newspaper and an online newspaper under the name Pravda. Today, Pravda represents the oppositional stance of the Communist Party in the Russian Federation."
Proquest Newspapers / Major Dailies – Current
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Current full-text of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review), Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. For historical backfiles, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Direct Links to the individual papers:
http://uclibs.org/PID/301866 Chicago Tribune (1985- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301869 Los Angeles Times (1985- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301870 New York Times (1980- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301871 Wall Street Journal (1984- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301872 Washington Post (1987- )
Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全國報刊索引= National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals (NICNP) (Chinese Database)
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NICNP is provided by Shanghai Wenda Information Co., Ltd., based in Shanghai, China. The database provides internet access to titles, authors, and abstracts of newspaper/journal articles published between 1833 to 1979 in China. NICNP covers various subject areas in social sciences and humanities, such as religion, literature, culture, art, politics, economics, and history.
Ren min ri bao 人民日报电子版= People’s Daily (Chinese Database)
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The “People’s Daily” is the official voice of the central government of the People’s Republic of China. This database provides complete official records of the Chinese government from 1946-2005.
Sacramento Bee [via Newsbank]
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earch and retrieve full text of the Sacramento Bee from 1985 through the previous day. Excludes advertisements and graphics.
Sacramento Bee 1857-1983, Digital Edition [via Newsbank]
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Full-text digital edition of the Sacramento Bee newspaper from 1857-1983.
Shun Bao 申报 = Shanghai News
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The ShunBao (Shen Bao)database is composed of the digitized issues of the Shanghai, China newspaper published from 1872 to 1949. Considered by many to be the longest lasting and most influential newspaper in modern China, the publication covered the major political and social developments for over half a century. The full name of the newspaper was Shenjiang Xinbao (translated as Shenjiang New Post, also known in English as the Shanghai News). Content has not been translated or transliterated from the Chinese script.
South Asian Newspapers [via NewsBank]
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Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
St Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922, 1923-2003) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers]
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There is permanent access to the 1874-1922 portion of this resource. 1923-2003 is available at least through Spring, 2022. That portion is among a group of resources that are available for a limited time. Some of them will become a permanent part of the UCDavis library collections based on interest.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, 1902-2009 [via Gale]
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“The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. . . Since 1902, the TLS has scrutinized, applauded and dissected the work of leading writers and thinkers, offering comprehensive coverage of the most important publications, in every subject, in several languages, as well as reviewing current theatre, cinema, music, and exhibitions.”
Times of London Digital Archive [via Gale]
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Includes full text and page images of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertising and images (excluding the Sunday Times) for 1785-2011. The “Access World News” database contains both the daily and Sunday Times, 1985-present.
Wall Street Journal – Current Newspapers [via ProQuest]
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Current full-text content of the Wall Street Journal.
Wall Street Journal [via ProQuest]
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Historical coverage of the Wall Street Journal 1889-2002 with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue.
Washington Post (1877-1997) [via ProQuest]
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Historical coverage of the Washington Post from 1877-1997, with both full page and individual article images. Searchable full text back to the first issue.
Independent Voices [via Reveal Digital on JSTOR]
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Alternative press and political newspapers, magazines and journals from the latter half of the 20th century, including, feminist, dissident, campus radical, Native American, anti-war activist, Black Power, Hispanic, LGBT activist, the extreme right-wing publications. Searchable full-text access includes nearly 1,000 magazines, newsletters, newspapers, as well as image, audio and other archival material.
Coverage: 1950s - 1980s
Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources
AP Newsroom [via EBSCO]
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Photograph collection, both historic and current, although most images date from 1995 forward includes top news stories, photos, audio clips and print graphics, as well as descriptive captions and source information.
California Newspaper Project [via UC Riverside]
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The California Newspaper Project (CNP) identifies, describes and preserves California Newspapers. It provides a searchable online catalog of newspapers held throughout the state. CNP is a participant in the United States Newspaper Program and receives funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities and the California State Library.
Chronicle of Higher Education
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The Chronicle's web site features the complete contents of the latest issue, including daily news, advice columns, blogs and current job listings. Content from 1989 - present can be searched by keyword. The subscription includes access to a number of newsletters https://www.chronicle.com/account/newsletters.
Chronicling America
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This site sponsored by the Library of Congress allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from all U.S. states and territories. Currently, the site contains selected newspapers from California (The San Francisco Call, Sacramento Record-Union), District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, and Virginia and Washington.
Coverage: 1836-1922 some full text papers; 1690 - present is a bibliographic record for newspaper titles.
Tags: News, United States Of America
Tags: News, United States Of America
CQ Press Library/Political Reference Suite
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Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Electronic Library includes many resources for the study of current and historical congressional and American government issues.
Factiva [via Dow Jones / ProQuest]
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General and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Gender Watch [via ProQuest]
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A full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, NGO and special reports.
Historic Italian and other European Journals and newspapers online
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BANCHE DATI DI PERIODICI DISPONIBILI ON LINE–This is an Italian language list of and links to (mostly)European journal and newspaper collections digitized by libraries and other institutions. It is especially useful for Italian publications.
Historical Newspapers Online
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Search the following Chadwyck-Healey databases: Palmer’s Index to The Times, 1790-1905 (with full text from 1800-1870) the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980, and the Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922.
Latin American Newspapers (Zona Latina)
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Extensive listing of links to Latin American newspapers. The list is compiled by Zona Latina, which covers Latin American media and marketing.
Nexis Uni [Formerly LexisNexis]
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One of the largest web-based full-text databases for current news, business and legal information, supporting a broad range of interdisciplinary research, Nexis Uni (known until December 2017 as LexisNexis Academic) provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 individual titles. Includes a wide range of U.S. and foreign newspapers, plus transcripts of television and radio news programs. Business resources include business articles, accounting literature, company financial information. Legal resources include state and federal laws and regulations, a full range of case law, and law review articles.
London Times [via Historic Newspapers Online]
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Search Palmer’s Index to The Times, 1790-1905 and the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980. Includes full-text for 1800-1870.
TV News Archive (Internet Archive)
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The TV News Archive (from the Internet Archive) allows one to search the captions of television news programs from 2009 to yesterday. Over 1.7
San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive
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Established in 1982, the TV Archive preserves over 4000 hours of newsfilm, documentaries and other programs produced locally in the Bay Area and Northern California between 1939-2005. It is part of SF State Library’s Department of Special Collections.
Select Current Newspaper Collections
ProQuest Current Newspapers / Major Dailies [via ProQuest]
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Current full-text of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times (including the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times Book Review), Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. For historical backfiles, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Direct Links to the individual papers:
http://uclibs.org/PID/301866 Chicago Tribune (1985- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301869 Los Angeles Times (1985- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301870 New York Times (1980- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301871 Wall Street Journal (1984- )
http://uclibs.org/PID/301872 Washington Post (1987- )
Access World News [via Readex/Newsbank]
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Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Access World News also includes a selection of Spanish language newspapers from the United States and other countries. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper. Local interest: San Francisco Chronicle Digital (date coverage 1923-1984).
Nexis Uni [Formerly LexisNexis]
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One of the largest web-based full-text databases for current news, business and legal information, supporting a broad range of interdisciplinary research, Nexis Uni (known until December 2017 as LexisNexis Academic) provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 individual titles. Includes a wide range of U.S. and foreign newspapers, plus transcripts of television and radio news programs. Business resources include business articles, accounting literature, company financial information. Legal resources include state and federal laws and regulations, a full range of case law, and law review articles.
Factiva [via Dow Jones / ProQuest]
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General and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Select Historical Newspaper Collections
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Historical coverage of the following U.S Newspapers. The include both full page and individual article images. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Years included varies by title.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Arizona Republican (1890 – 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931 – 2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909 – 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849 – 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Cleveland Call and Post (1934 – 1991)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel (1934 – 2005)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times (1881 – 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922 – 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 – 2013)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune (1912 – 2001)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911 – 2002)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: San Francisco Chronicle (1865 – 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922) (1874 – 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal (1889 – 1999)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877 – 2000)
Historic U.S. Newspaper Indexes [via Proquest]
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The following newspapers collaborated with ProQuest to provide searchable indexes to their archives. Articles can then be read on microfilm (for the titles we own) or requested through Interlibrary loan. Note: while you can search the full text of the newspapers you cannot read these articles online; the links here are to indexes only, not full-text resources.
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News,
United States Of America
Related links: Arizona Republican (1890-1922), Atlanta Daily World 1931-2003, Chicago Tribune, 1849-1987 , Cleveland Call and Post 1934-1991, Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times 1881-1986, New York Amsterdam News 1922-1993, New York Times 1851-2004, Philadelphia Tribune 1912-2001, Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002, San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922), The Chicago Defender 1909-1975, Wall Street Journal 1889-1990, Washington Post 1877-1993
Related links: Arizona Republican (1890-1922), Atlanta Daily World 1931-2003, Chicago Tribune, 1849-1987 , Cleveland Call and Post 1934-1991, Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times 1881-1986, New York Amsterdam News 1922-1993, New York Times 1851-2004, Philadelphia Tribune 1912-2001, Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2002, San Francisco Chronicle 1865-1922, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922), The Chicago Defender 1909-1975, Wall Street Journal 1889-1990, Washington Post 1877-1993
Times of London Digital Archive [via Gale]
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Includes full text and page images of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertising and images (excluding the Sunday Times) for 1785-2011. The “Access World News” database contains both the daily and Sunday Times, 1985-present.
California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC)
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The CDNC provides full text access to more than 5 million articles and 400,000 pages of 21 significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-2009, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. The San Francisco Call, the Sacramento Transcript and the Sacramento Daily Union also are included in the CDNC.
Historic California Newspapers in Chronicling America [via Library of Congress]
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Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento) 1875-1891
Record Union (Sacramento), 1891-1903
San Francisco Call, 1895-1913
The morning call. (San Francisco) 1878-1895
Call-Chronicle-Examiner (San Francisco), 1906-1906
Los Angeles herald (Los Angeles) 1900-1911
Amador ledger (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1900-1910?
Historical Newspapers Online
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Search the following Chadwyck-Healey databases: Palmer’s Index to The Times, 1790-1905 (with full text from 1800-1870) the Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980, and the Historical Index to The New York Times, 1851-1922.
Early American Newspapers [via NewsBank]
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This is a subset of America's Historical Newspapers and can be searched separately or in combination with the other parts by selecting them from the dropdown menu. Series 1: From Colonies to Nation and Series 2: The New Republic include newspapers drawn from the American Antiquarian Society and from the collections of other institutions and societies.Note: These parts can be accessed directly using the following URLs. For Part 1: http://uclibs.org/PID/42513 For Part 2: http://uclibs.org/PID/275700.
Archive of Americana [via Readex/Newsbank]
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The Archive of Americana is a compilation of several collections of American historical materials from Readex/Newsbank. One or more of the collections may be searched at the same time via cross-collection searching. Collections included are: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876; and the government document collections: American State Papers, 1789-1838; U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
Coverage: Varies by collection, but some material back to 1639.
Tags: History, United States Of America
Tags: History, United States Of America