Research Guides: Primary Source Collections: Newspapers

United States

America's Historical Newspapers
Provides access to 150+ early American newspapers published between 1690-1789.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages and is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Coverage 1836-1922
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Includes roughly 500 digitized newspapers originally published in the United States between 1800 and 1900.The collection covers both urban and rural locations and includes newspapers published by historically marginalized groups, including African Americans, Native Americans, women’s rights groups, and labor groups. It also includes Confederate newspapers.
ProQuest Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
Formerly ProQuest Newsstand, this database enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Major U.S. Dailies
Provides cover to cover images of the daily Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post newspapers.
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
Los Angeles Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Includes PDF images of full-text articles as well as full-page views of each issue of the Los Angeles Times providing researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1881- 1996

To access cover to cover images of the daily Los Angeles Times newspaper via ProQuest Digitized Newspapers click here.
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
This database includes PDF images of full-text articles as well as full-page views of each issue of the New York Times providing researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1851 - 2018

To access cover to cover images of the daily New York Times newspaper via ProQuest Digitized Newspapers click here
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
Washington Post (ProQuest)
Provides full-text articles from the Washington Post newspaper as well as online and blog content from washingtonpost.com. This is a text-only database; images, graphs, and advertisements are excluded.
Coverage: 1987 - today

To access cover to cover images of the Washington Post via ProQuest Digitized Newspapers click here.
Coverage: 2008 - one month ago
Chicago Tribune
This database includes PDF images of full-text articles as well as full-page views of each issue of the Chicago Tribune. Every page is full-text searchable.
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
Wall Street Journal
This database includes PDF images of full-text articles as well as full-page views of each issue of the Wall Street Journal. Every page is full-text searchable.
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago

Additional full-text article content (images, graphs and advertisements are excluded) from the Wall Street Journal and WSJ.com is available via ABI/Inform.
Coverage: 1984 - today
African American Newspapers Series I and II
Provides access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers published by or for African Americans from 1827 - 1998.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America
Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the U.S. and Canada from 1828-2016.

California

Sacramento Bee (NewsBank)
Includes current and historic full-text articles in text and/or image form as well as full-page views of each issue of the Sacramento Bee.
Coverage: 1857 - today

To access cover-to-cover images of recent issues of the Sacramento Bee daily newspaper in a browsable format click here.
Coverage: November 7, 2017 - today

Sacramento Union
Microfilm: 1903-1906, 1968-1991
Paper (Special Collections): 1903:Jun 14-1991:Jul 2
Title history:
Sacramento daily union (SN 82014928) 1853-1875
Sacramento daily record-union (SN 82014381) 1875-1891
The Record-union (SN 82015104) 1891-1903
Sacramento union (Sacramento, Calif. : 1903) (SN 82014929) 1903-1991
Union (Sacramento, Calif.) (SN 93053066) 1991-1994
Sacramento Union
Digitized: 9 March 1851 - 31 December 1922 (21659 issues)
Sacramento Observer
African-American-owned weekly newspaper in Sacramento, California. It serves the Published for 60 years, it serves the African-American community throughout the Sacramento Metropolitan Area.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
Contains over 600,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. Also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers
California Newspapers (NewsBank)
Contains links to full text articles in 100+ California newspapers from both large cities (LA, SF, SD, Sacramento etc.) and smaller towns (Eureka, Ft. Bragg, Los Banos, etc.) throughout the state. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded
San Francisco Chronicle (NewsBank)
Provides full-text articles from the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper with local, regional, U.S. and international news.
Paid advertisements and images are excluded.
Coverage 1985 - yesterday

To access cover-to-cover images of the San Francisco Chronicle daily newspaper click here.
Coverage: March 1, 2017 - today

Los Angeles Sentinel (Historical)
Includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, & more, is easily accessible for scholars in the study of the history of race relations, journalism, local & national politics, education, African American studies, & many multidisciplinary subjects.

Non-United States

The Times Digital Archive: 1785-1985
Cover- to-cover images of The Times (London, England) newspaper from 1785 - 1985.
WestlawNext Campus Research
Legal research database that contains case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, and legal forms. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles as well as businesses search.

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