9. Finding Newspaper Articles
A helpful guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes is available.
Widener Library's Newspaper Microfilm Reading Room and Collection
Finding newspaper articles online
Text of thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts.Coverage begins in most cases c. 1980. The New York Times and other newspapers are included, with coverage including today's newspapers.
Includes 8,000 business and news publications, many with full text. Earliest dates are 1969 for newspapers, trade journals, newswires (Dow Jones, Reuters). Coverage is international.
This database contains all issues of the New York Times, 1851 to recent years, but not the last few years, in full text, full image forms, including news, illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising.
Contains all issues of the Times of London, 1785-1985, in full text and full image, including news, features, editorials and commentary, advertising, pictures and illustrations.
Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements cover the Western Hemisphere, from the Canadian Maritime Provinces, through the West Indies and North and South America, giving a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings such as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne’s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.
African American Newspapers - the 19th Century
Freedom's Journal, New York, New York (March 16, 1827 - March 28 1829)
The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), New York, New York (January 7, 1837 - December 25, 1841)
The North Star, Rochester, New York (December 3, 1847 - April 17,1851)
The National Era, Washington, D.C. (January 7, 1847 - March 22, 1860)
Provincial Freeman, Chatham, Canada West (1854-1857)
Frederick Douglass' Paper, Rochester, New York (1851-1859) (Completed through December 1852)
The Christian Recorder (1861-1902)
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press from 1960 to present
