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.

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.

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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The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of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. 

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.

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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.

Meet the Press from Alexander Street opens up a wealth of information to libraries by making over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

A daily newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora.

Text only access to the New York Times from 1980 up to and including today's issue. 

This is delivered through a third party, Proquest Central database.

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. 

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. 

Legal: 

• Bill tracking at the federal and state levels.
• U.S. federal court decisions and tracking, including Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790
• Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court cases and Superior Court Trial Orders
• Canadian cases
• International Court of Justice filings
• Law reviews

Business and Financial:

• Dun and Bradstreet Reports
• Guidestar reports for charitable nonprofits
• Hoover's Company Reports

News:

• Associated Press, PR Newswire, and other wire services
• Thousands of newspapers
• International professional and trade press (text only, no images)

 Most documents are available in full text.

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. 

PressReader provides online access to today's newspapers from over 100 countries around the world in over 60 languages in a full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes over 5,000. Just like reading the familiar print edition, users can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. Users have the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire archive.

PressReader  provides advanced digital features such as interactive tables of content, foreign language translation in 17 different languages, cross title searching, sharing of articles through email or blog postings, bookmarks and text-to-voice conversion.  

This is a 90 day archive. 

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

London Times access *not including the Sunday edition* from 1785 to 1985. An invaluable source for primary historical research.

The Washington Post provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.