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HISTORICAL NEWS SOURCES
Newspapers Available Online

 

African-American Newspapers Selected titles from the 19th Century, including North Star and Freedom's Journal.  Via Accessible Archives 

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 - More than 1,000 U.S. newspapers, with titles from all 50 states.

British Newspapers Digitization Project, 1800-1900

Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective  Text of the Charleston Mercury, Richmond Enquirer, and the New York Herald, from Nov. 1860-April 1865.  Via Accessible Archives

Daily Collegian (1887-1987) Full text of Penn State's student newspaper

New York Times Historical (1851-)

Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800  Text of the newspaper founded by Benjamin Franklin.  Via Accessible Archives.

Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers - Selected newspapers. Indluces the years before, during , and after the war.

Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, Delaware County, 1819-1870.  Contains transcriptions of articles from Delaware County American, Delaware County Republican, The Upland Union,  Delaware County Democrat, & The Post Boy.

Times of London, 1785-1985

Newspaperarchive.com  Over 1 million digitized page images of U.S. Newspapers.  Searching is free, but viewing the pages requires a membership fee. 

Historical Newspapers Project  List of projects to make newspapers available online.

 

Periodical Press

American Periodicals Series, 1740-1900 - Over 1,000 periodicals, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazine, and many other historically-significant titles.

The Nation Digital Archive, 1865- - The full-text of the long-running liberal weekly magazine.

Periodicals Archive Online - Hundreds of digitized journal in the arts, humanities, and social science. Provides researches with access to more than 200 years of scholarship.

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last updated: 5/1/08
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