News & Newspapers

As compelling as it is comprehensive, 19th Century U.S. Newspapers provides access to primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.

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This collection of historical African newspapers from the Readex World Newspaper Archive provides coverage of the people, cultures, issues and events that shaped the continent.  Topics related to the first world war, Zulu Wars, settler colonialism and the rejection of Western imperialism are themes covered.

Newspaper text is in English, Sotho, German, Portuguese, Xhosa, and more.

Fully digitized coverage of the African American newspaper  Atlanta Daily World from 1931-2003.

Link to most recent issue.

Historical and current access to the Boston Globe. Includes variations on the title: Daily Boston Globe and Boston Daily Globe. Historic content (1872-1979) includes a PDF view of the newspaper including illustrations, charts, and advertisements. After 1980, only text is available.

For more than 40 years (1972-2013), the Phoenix was Boston's alternative newspaper of record, the first word on social justice, politics, as well as the arts and music scene.  The Phoenix and its sister publications are being digitized, and selected issues are available electronically beginning in 2012.

An author index covering 1973-1990 allows searching by the journalist's name for issues and articles that can be individually requested for digitization.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) collects and makes available important and rare collections of primary source materials, as well as thousands of foreign dissertations, historical journals, and newspapers from around the world.

The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of the world. For example, the Sutro Library Mexican collection includes over 3,000 titles from the 1500-1900 time period, covering cultural, economic, political, religious, and social themes in Mexican history.

These collections are made available in print, in microfilm, and, in many cases, online. Faculty, students, and staff are eligible to borrow resources through an extended delivery system or, when available, through electronic delivery or online.  See our Subject Guide to the Center for Research Libraries for more information. 

Proquest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988).  The historical Chicago Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

Current Northeastern faculty, staff and students have free access to the Chronicle one of three ways:

On-campus networks: Connect directly to the Chronicle web site at https://www.chronicle.com

Anywhere, with your myNortheastern username and password:

• Use this link off-campus https://link.ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url=https://www.chronicle.com
• Optionally, you can use  a browser plugin that customizes any journal URL the library subscribes to, allowing access with your myNortheastern username and password. See the library bookmarklet here.

Anywhere, by setting up a personal Chronicle account: Set up a free personal account here using your Northeastern email address. (Northeastern faculty, staff and students)

• With a web browser, sign in with your personal account and password. No special URL or plugin necessary. 
• Alternatively, download the Chronicle app for your device, and use your personal account for setup.

Using a mobile device app: Set up a free personal account here using your Northeastern email address. (Northeastern faculty, staff and students)

1. click on Create a Free Account.
2. Submit the appropriate information being requested-you must use your Northeastern email address.  You will also be required to create a password.  This is not your myNortheastern password, so it can be whatever you want it to be.
3. Once you have created your free account, download The Chronicle of Higher Education app from your app store.
4. You will be required to login using your free account credentials (Northeastern email and Chronicle password).
5. The Chronicle will appear on your device. You can read current issues, or download and read archived editions later. 

The purpose of the Digital Transgender Archive (DTA) is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern University, the DTA is an international collaboration among more than sixty colleges, universities, nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections. By digitally localizing a wide range of trans-related materials, the DTA expands access to trans history for academics and independent researchers alike in order to foster education and dialog concerning trans history.

Early American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views.

Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 American newspapers from from 23 states and the District of Columbia.

Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.

Note: Northeastern has Series 1 only.

Get help with this database, especially about OCR character recognition (supplied by Readex).

A weekly newspaper devoted to education. Articles, profiles, commentary, legislation, state and national news and book reviews for teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools.

Interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

View a guide to this database from Proquest

Foreign Policy is the leading international source for global news, providing an evolving network of world-leading insights and analysis coupled with rapidly expanding original reporting.

Reprints full articles from women's studies magazines and newsletters (including some that are hard to find in print), as well as some scholarly journals. Some articles go back to the 1970's. You can browse a list of subjects or search by key words.

A selection of historical newspaper documents from ProQuest, including the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Boston Globe (1872-1981), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1988), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), New York Times (1851-2008), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and Washington Post (1877-1999).

Inside Higher Ed is the online source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education. This resource includes: breaking news and feature stories, provocative daily commentary, areas for comment on every article, practical career columns, and a powerful suite of tools to help higher education professionals get jobs and colleges identify and hire employees.

Latin American Newspapers, Series 1—part of CRL's World Newspaper Archive—features 13 historical Latin American newspapers. Titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Venezuela offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues, and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. Also known as The Times Digital Archive, and published under the name Times of London.  An invaluable source for primary historical research.

Get help on primary source basics and how to use this collection.

Fully digitized newspaper Los Angeles Times from 1881 to 2012.

Information and analysis of the Middle East including the Middle East Report, which provides news and analysis not generally found in mainstream sources.  Independent with no links to other educational, religious, or political organizations.  

This resource allows researchers to search for full articles in the New York Amsterdam News. Searches provide a PDF of each article as well as an abstract.

Search the full text of The New York Times starting in 1985. (Note, does NOT include the Book Review.)

Indexing goes back to 1965. 

This online edition is text only. 

Beginning on June 30, 2021, the Northeastern University Library will no longer be subscribing to the database Nexis Uni (formerly known as Lexis-Nexis). 

Instead we recomend the following two resources that together provide even more news and law resources through much easier user interfaces.

Access World News (Newsbank) a file of current and archived news conte nt from around the world, including the Seattle Times, Miami Herald, La Monde (Paris), San Francisco Chronicle, Times of India and thousands more.

Westlaw Campus Research: primary and secondary legal sources including statutes, regulations, court cases, law reviews, and legal news.

Read more about the transition here.

Proquest Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001).  The historical Philadelphia Tribune collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

This resource allows researchers to search for full articles in the Pittsburgh Courier. Searches provide a PDF of each article as well as an abstract

Local and regional content from newspapers, newswires, and blogs.

Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia. Featuring titles from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The Times of India offers full page and article images with searchable full text. The collection includes The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838-1859), The Bombay Times and Standard (1860-1861), and The Times of India (1861-2010).

The Wall Street Journal provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis focused on business, finance, and political economy.

Individual registration with a Northeastern email address or @nchlondon.ac.uk email address is required for access. After registering, you will have to confirm via email and sign in again to enable your account.

For historic WSJ content dating back to 1985, please use Factiva via this link. Click 'Options' then use the 'Source' dropdown menu to limit search results to WSJ articles.

The Washington Post is a Washington D.C.'s newspaper, with coverage of the city and region, national news, and with a special strength in coverage of federal government ("inside-the-beltway") news. 

This Proquest version provides today's newspaper as well as backfiles to 2016, and is text only. 

Prior isssues with some page views are also available in Proquest going back to 1877. Please see Scholar OneSearch for complete online holdings.