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Newspaper Search: Historical/Archives
For the 1980s to the present please check the Regional / National / International News tab for many additional sources.
Archival Major Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index This link opens in a new windowOnline, full-image, and searchable content of The New York Times from September 18, 1851 to four years ago (4-year embargo). Includes articles, advertisements, and political cartoons. Search options include keyword, article type, by date, author, or browse by issue.
- New Pittsburgh CourierCall Number: Newspapers Microfilm (2nd Floor, North)(Shelved with Pittsburgh Courier)
Holdings: 1966-1992
- The Times (London) Digital Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Coverage: 1785-2012. - The Sunday Times (London) Historical Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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The Sunday Times has provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week’s news and society at large since 1822. Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1966, when both papers came under common ownership. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news. Coverage: 1822-2016. - The Times Literary Supplement (London) Historical Archive (Gale) This link opens in a new window
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Since 1902, the Times Literary Supplement has forged a reputation for fine writing, literary discoveries and insightful debate. The TLS has attracted the contributions of the world’s most influential writers and critics, from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf in the 1920s and 30s to A.N. Wilson and Christopher Hitchens in the 1990s and 2000s. Coverage: 1902-2019.
- The Times Educational Supplement (London)Call Number: Newspaper Microfilm (2nd Floor, North)Holdings: 1910-2003
- The Virginia Gazette (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowPublished weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia between 1736 and 1780, The Virginia Gazette contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowOnline, full-image, and searchable content of The Wall Street Journal from July 8, 1889 to 18 years ago (18-year embargo). In 1889, Dow Jones & Company first published The Wall Street Journal as a markets-focused newspaper for shareholders. Today, it focuses not only on the stock market, but on all aspects of global business, economics, and consumer affairs
Archival Newspaper Collections
- Accessible Archives This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collections including: African American Newspapers, African American Newspapers in the South, The Civil War - Part I: A Newspaper Perspective, Frank Leslie’s Weekly (1855-1922), The Virginia Gazette (1736-1780), The Woman’s Tribune (1883-1909), Women’s Suffrage Collection
- African American Newspapers (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowThis collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day.
- African American Newspapers, Series 1 (Readex) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Coverage: 1827-1998.
- America's Historical Newspapers (Readex) This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 1,400 U.S. historical newspapers from all 50 states published between 1690 and 1922. Collections include African American Newspapers and Early American Newspapers, Series 1 - 7.
- British Library Newspapers (Gale) This link opens in a new windowTaken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library, this collection includes London national newspapers, English regional papers, home country newspapers from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and titles in specialist areas such as Victorian radicalism and Chartism. Coverage: 1800-1900.
- Chronicling America (National Digital Newspaper Program) @ Library of Congress This link opens in a new windowAccess to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC). Coverage: 1789-1963. Additional years will be added as the project continues.
- The Civil War Collection (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowThis collection of newspapers, personal narratives, and regimental histories is divided into seven parts: A Newspaper Perspective; The Soldiers’ Perspective; The Generals’ Perspective; A Midwestern Perspective; Iowa’s Perspective; Northeast Regimental Histories; and Abraham Lincoln Library Abolitionist Books.
- Frank Leslie's Weekly (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowFounded in 1855 and continued until 1922, this was an American illustrated literary and news publication, and one of several started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie.
- Google Historic Newspapers by nameGoogle News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time.
- Newspapers.com World Collection (Ancestry & ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowThis newspaper archive contains searchable, full-page images of over 4000 state, regional, and local newspapers in the United States and other countries from the early 1700s to the 2000s.
NOTE: Newspapers available in this database are not listed in the Murphy Library catalog. - Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale) This link opens in a new windowOver 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. Newspapers from all 19th-century U.S. states and territories are included.
- Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection (Gale) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books (primarily published in London, with some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and examples from the American colonies) gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817).
- Women's Suffrage Collection (Accessible Archives) This link opens in a new windowThis collection covers much of the women's rights movement from the mid-1800s to the early 1900s. It includes newspapers that had some overlap between the temperance and women’s rights movements, as well as an anti-suffrage paper.
