Penn State University Libraries - Historical Newspapers

Databases

• American Periodicals Series (1740-1900) [Full Page Reproduction]
  • General interest magazines
  • Children's publications
  • Journals for women
  • Professional journals
• American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Periodicals published between 1740 and 1940
• British Periodicals [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth
• The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2007 [Full Page Reproduction]
  • Global editorial perspective
    
  • Multiple search indexes
• Harpers's Weekly, 1857-1877 [Full Page Reproduction]
  • America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper
• Periodicals Archive Online (1770-1995) 
  • Arts, humanities and social sciences

Index

• Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982
  • Provides indexing of general interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America

Back files of hundreds of newspapers are available in the News & Microforms Library. The collection begins in the eighteenth century and includes many Pennsylvania publications.

Use NewsCAT to search for specific titles either alphabetically, by geography or by the time period published. This also includes microfilm collections in the University Libraries.

• Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865
  
  • Approximately 14,000 letters, speeches, editorials, articles, sermons, essays and other documents written by antislavery movement activists
  • For more information, consult Black Abolitionist Papers, 1830-1865 : A Guide to the Microfilm Edition
    
• Black Literature, 1827-1940
  
  • Contains fiction, poetry, book reviews, and literary notices 
    
  • Originally published in 900 Black periodicals and newspapers
• Business and economic development (1975-1980)
  • Consumer affairs (1975-1980)
  • Education (1970-1980)
  • Employment (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Environment (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Government (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Health (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Housing and urban renewal (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Law and order (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Minority economic development (1970-1972)
  • Political development (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Race relations (1970-1972)
  • Social relations (1975-1980)
  • Transportation (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
  • Urban News File (1973-1974, 1975[incomplete])
  • Welfare and poverty (1970-1972, 1975-1980)
• Early English Newspapers
  
  • 17th and 18th century English newspapers makes available scarce and deteriorating texts that provide researchers insight into events that might be glossed over in a history book. [Gale Homepage] 
    
  • For more information consult Early English Newspapers: Bibliography and Guide to the Microfilm Collection
    
• The Hampton University Peabody Newspaper Clipping File 1873-1940
  
  • 789 microfiche of newspaper clippings concerning Afro-American history, politics, education, and culture, 1873-1940
    
  • For more information consult the index listed on the CAT record
    
• The Harbottle Dorr Collection of Annotated Massachusetts newspapers, 1765-1776
  
  • 12 year archive from pre-Revolutionary Boston 
    
  • 3,280 pages of annotated newspapers, plus the appended documents and Dorr's own indexes to the four volumes he compiled." [UMI Research Collections - Massachusetts Historical Society Collections] 
  • For more information, consult the Index to Harbottle Dorr Collection of Annotated Massachusetts Newspapers (1765-1776)
• Herstory
  
  • Collection of women's newspapers, journals and other publications from the 1950s to the 1970s, assembled by the Women's History Research Center
  • For more information, consult Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Herstory
• Newsbank Urban Affairs Library
  • Microfiche copies of newspaper articles from 150 U.S. newspapers on these topics
    
  • Use the related Index to locate specific articles
• The Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1918-1977 
  
  • Serials and ephemera covering the period 1918-1977 from right-wing collections at several universities [Library of Congress]
  • The Right Wing Collection of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1918-1977: A Guide to the Microfilm Collection
    
• Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
  • Full-text of African-American newspapers, periodicals, and books that would be otherwise very difficult to obtain in their original editions
    
  • One of the most significant primary resources for the serious study of African-American history in all of its aspects, with source materials on slavery, slave trade, race, abolitionism, social life, customs, and literature 
  • For more information, consult the indexes:
    • Selection of Titles from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
    • Index to the Schomburg Clipping File
      
• South Carolina Newspapers, 1732-1782
  
  • South Carolina newspapers held by the Charleston Library Society
  • For more information, consult the index listed in the CAT record
• The Tuskegee Institute news clippings file [microform] 
  • Guide to the microfilm edition of the Tuskegee Institute news clippings file
• Underground Newspaper Collection
  
  • Includes more than 435 diverse titles, many from the alternative press movement of the 1960s
    
  • Consult the guide to see which issues are on microfilm, Underground Newspaper Collection (microform) (index)
• The Underground & Alternative Press in Britain (1974-1975)
  
  • Contains alternative and underground newspapers
  • For more information, consult index listed in the CAT record
• Voices from Wartime France, 1939 -1945: 
  
  • Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers from the British Library at Colindale, London
  • Offers the complete French holdings of the British Library Newspaper Library at Colindale, London
  • For more information, consult Primary Source Media

• Ayer Directory of Publications (1880-1982) 
  
  • Published annually
  • A listing of newspapers and periodicals
  • Subject listings, such as culinary and housekeeping, fashion, matrimonial, millinery, woman's handiwork, and women's clubs (these categories became increasingly detailed over time)
  • In 1987, it was continued by Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
  • The Library of Congress offers volumes online: Rowell's & Ayer's American Newspaper Directory
• The Waterloo Directory of English Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (20 volumes) 
  
  • Directory to the largest single body of historical documents arising out of nineteenth century England at the height of the British Empire. [North Waterloo Academic Press homepage]
    
• The Waterloo Directory of Irish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (one volume) 
  
  • Alphabetical listing and description of publications in Ireland in all fields, including the arts, sciences, professions, trades, labour, agriculture, industry, entertainment, sport, church and home [North Waterloo Academic Press]
    
• The Waterloo Directory of Scottish Newspapers and Periodicals, 1800-1900 (two volumes)
  • Alphabetical listing and description of newspaper and periodical publications in Scotland in all fields, including the arts, sciences, professions, trades, labour, agriculture, industry, entertainment, sport, church, children, women and finance [North Waterloo Academic Press]
    
• The Waterloo Directory of Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (one volume)
  • England, Ireland, Scotland & Wales
• Willing's Press Guide (1974-1987)
  
  • A concise and comprehensive index to the press of the United Kingdom

• American Antiquarian Society Newspapers
  • Contains newspapers from all fifty states and the District of Columbia, the Canadian provinces, the West Indies, and Great Britain (British newspapers are retained through the Revolutionary War period)
• Center for Research Libraries Newspaper Collection 
  • Various countries
    
  • Every state in the U.S., including over 1,800 U.S. ethnic titles and some of the earliest African American newspapers
• Guide to Historical Newspapers Online (University of Pennsylvannia)
  • Historical US newspapers (free)
• ICON : International Coalition on Newspapers
  • Contains over 25,000 records pertaining to global newspapers and holding libraries
• Newspaper Archives/Indexes/Morgues (Library of Congress Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room)
  • Newspaper archive sources on the web
  • US newspaper archives & indexes
    
  • Morgues (US)
  • International newspaper archives
• Mapping Asia Newspapers
  • Newspaper holdings information in United Kingdom Libraries
  • Searchable by title, city, county and language
  • Does not include newspapers published in Europe or America
• NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (University of Florida)
  
  • Online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean
• State Library of Pennsylvania
  • Search for Pennsylvania newspapers via online catalog/PILOT
    

• Wisconsin Historical Society Newspapers and Periodicals
  • North American newspapers dating back to the early 18th century
  • Wisconsin newspapers
  • Colonial and early American newspapers west of the Appalachians
  • Labor and trade union newspapers
• Newspapers on Microfilm
  • Guide to Microforms in Print
  • Newspapers in Microform (1948-1983)
  • Serials in Microform Catalog

Citation information can be used to request item via ILL