Newspapers

Full Text Online

Many other full text sources are listed inGuide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes. Also see the lists of digitized newspapers in the Introduction.

LexisNexis Academic (1980s- ) is the usual first choice for finding newspaper articles, with full text (pictures omitted) coverage of numerous U.S. and overseas newspapers. The Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Newsday, Hartford Courant, and Morning Call have been removed from LexisNexis except for a six month rolling backfile, accessible through the Guided News search. New York Times is available from 1980; other newspapers were added gradually thereafter.

Access World News (1985- ; largely 2005- ) aggregates nearly 6,000 news sources, including print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.

Factiva (1980s- ) offers full text (pictures omitted) of over 6,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services and trade journals. Use Internet Explorer. For details on the publications included, open Support? (upper right), select Content Watch, select Source Search. To limit to a particular newspaper enter, e.g., sn=wall street journal and "search term". Articles for which the copyright resides with the author rather than the newspaper which are not available in LexisNexis sometimes have a citation without full text in Factiva. Includes the Wall Street Journal full text, 1984- (abstracts, 6/13/1979-1983). Search Guide: Searching for News in Factiva.com (formerly Dow Jones Interactive)

Articles for which the copyright resides with the author rather than the newspaper will not generally be available in LexisNexis or Factiva, although Factiva sometimes provides citations. Use newspaper indexes to find articles omitted from the full text sources.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers include illustrations, editorials, and advertising. Available papers are listed below.

General Newspapers

African-American Newspapers

All or several of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers can be searched at once from the ProQuest Databases page: deselect the ones on the yellow top part of the list, then scroll down to "Historical Databases", and select the ones you want.  Or from any of the individual ProQuest Historical Newspapers pages, hit the "Searching; 1 database" link.

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 includes 270 newspapers from 36 states

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 offers Spanish-language and bilingual newspapers. Based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project.”

America’s Historical Newspapers (1690-1922) offers full text of over a thousand U.S. newspapers. Although a very rich resource, many important newspapers, especially for the later years, are not included, e.g., the Boston Transcript.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers offers full text of about 500 newspapers.

Gale NewsVault: 19th Century U.S. Newspapers

Accessible Archives includes:

  • African American Newspapers (1827-1902)
  • The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
  • The Civil War: A Midwestern Perspective
  • Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1898)
  • The Liberator (1831-1865)
  • The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800)
  • The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
  • South Carolina Newspapers
  • The Virginia Gazette

Ethnic NewsWatch (1960- ) offers full-text of 90 newspapers and other periodicals. Includes book/film/television reviews. More about content. Covers:

  • African American
  • Arab American
  • Asian American
  • European American
  • Hispanic/Latino/Chicano
  • Jewish
  • Native American

Foreign

Gale NewsVault allows cross-searching across the Gale Newspaper collections to which Harvard subscribes:

  • 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
  • 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part 1
  • 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals: Empire
  • 19th Century UK Periodicals: New Readerships
  • Times Digital Archive
  • Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

World Newspaper Archive includes:
African Newspapers (1800-1922)
Latin American Newspapers (1805-1922)
South Asian Newspapers(1805-1922)

Times Digital Archive (1785-1985) offers the London Times full text, including news, editorials, advertising, pictures. Sunday Times is not included.

Microfilm

Many newspapers are only available on microfilm. Information on microfilm newspapers is available in Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes.

Newspaper Directories and Circulation Statistics

Information on newspaper directories and sources of circulation statistics are available.

Illustrations, Photographs, Cartoons, etc.

AP Multimedia Archive (AccuNet) is a searchable database of over 700,000 Associated Press photographs, charts and other graphics from the 1840s to the present.

The Presidential Elections, 1860-1912: Cartoons from Harper's Weekly and other Leading Journals

Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

1896: Presidential Campaign - Cartoons and Commentary

Political Cartoons and Caricatures (Library of Congress)

Teaching with Documents: Political Cartoons illustrating Progressivism and the Election of 1912

Broadcasting/Newsreels

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1947-1996. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service is a US government agency which translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature from non-English sources around the world. Reports with translations are issued for eight world regions daily and cover such topics as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology.

Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) (1968-) indexes the collection of network television news programs at Vanderbilt University. Abstracts searchable by keyword to find information and/or request videotape loans. Online video is available for CNN news broadcasts from October 1995 to the present.

American History in Video has numerous modern documentaries together with newsreels from 1929 to the present.

Internet Archive includes films, radio audio clips, news clips, educational films, advertisements, industry films, etc.