Historical Newspapers & Magazines

Historical Newspapers & News Archives

NU only 19th Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive See state by state coverage under the "Title List."

African American Newspapers and Periodicals A description of 4,000-6,000 titles and their locations. This web site lists microfilmed African American newspapers and periodicals available for Interlibrary borrowing.

NU only AP Images About 800 photos per day feed into this photo archive moments after moving onto the AP's spot picture system. Over 3 million U.S. and international photos, from 1826 to present. Almost 200 per day are saved for all time, while others are archived for about one year. Also includes over 60,000 graphics, charts, and timelines.

NU only Atlanta Constitution Coverage from 1868 to 1929.

BUND: British Universities Newsreel Database

Chicago Daily News Over 50,000 images taken by the newspaper's reporters between 1902-1933.

NU only Chicago Defender Available as part of the Black Studies Center. Currently available: full text of issues from 1935-1975.

NU only Chicago Tribune (Historical) Searchable full-image articles and complete content from 1849 through the 1980's.

NU only Chicago Tribune (1985-present)

Chronicling America Library of Congress and NEH program to enhance access to historic newspapers. "... search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Contains information on how to locate newpapers, of all states, published from 1690 to the present. See "Holdings" after searching "Find."

NU only Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876) Cover-to-cover “reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as full text-searchable facsimile images.”

NU only Los Angeles Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1881) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

NU only New York Times (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1851) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

NU only Palmer's Index to The Times 1790-1905 Citations to articles in the The Times (London), 1790-1905.

NU only Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).

NU only Times of London Digital Archive Searchable full-image articles and complete content of the Times of London from 1785 to 1985.

NU only Wall Street Journal (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1889) through about the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

NU only Washington Post (Historical) Use this link to see searchable, full-image articles from the 19th century (1877) through the 21st century (up to a few years ago; a rolling end-date).

Historical Magazine Collections Online

NU only 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Searchable full-text access to the British Library’s collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)–the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.

NU only 19th Century Masterfile A large range of 19th century materials, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well as patent and government indexes.

NU only APS Online: American Periodical Series I, II & III Digitized images of articles from over 1100 American periodicals published between 1741 and 1900.

NU only Eighteenth Century Journals II A rich collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals.

NU only HarpWeek (1857-1877) Full access to publications of Harper's Weekly during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

NU only International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text Citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals including 40 with full text articles.

Making of America Images and full-text of 19th century American periodicals.

NU only New York Review of Books Searchable archive of articles and reviews from 1963 to present.

NU only Periodicals Archive Online (PCI Fulltext) Major online periodical archive to the full text of a growing number of digitized periodicals that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.

NU only Periodicals Index Online (PCI Fulltext) Database of millions of article citations published in the humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years plus a growing full image archive of journals dating from 1770 to 1995. International in scope. Includes English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other Western language works.