News & Newspapers

The 19th Century British Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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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.

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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Formerly called 19th Century British Newspapers, the British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. This new collection includes national and regional newspapers, as well as those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Special attention was paid to include newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also present in the collection.

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

Fully digitized African American newspaper Chicago Defender from 1910 to 1975.

Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the 1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Edited in London since 1843, The Economist is a weekly international news and business publication, offering clear reporting, commentary and analysis on world current affairs, business, finance, science and technology, culture, society, media and the arts. The online edition features content from 1997 to the present.

The largest and most comprehensive online historical archive of its kind and an essential resource for advanced study of the eighteenth century, this collection contains every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom between the years 1701 and 1800. The works that were filmed for this collection come from a number of major institutions, including the British Library, the Bodleian (Oxford), Cambridge University, Harvard University, Library of Congress, the Huntington Library, University of Manchester and many more.

Includes access to the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and hundreds of other international newspapers.

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To limit your search to Wall Street Journal articles only, append sc=j to the end of your search.  For example:

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).

This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.

A multidisciplinary view into the study of Jewish civilization from its historical origins to the present. Content within the collection is meant to cover all facets of Judaism and multiple areas of study. Over 350 full-text titles including academic journals, abstracts of monographs, newspapers and periodicals, including complete Jewish Telegraphic Agency wire service articles from 1922 to the present.

Also search with Index to Jewish Periodicals

LexisNexis has introduced Nexis Uni, which will replace LexisNexis Academic in 2018 and is now available for use.

Up-to-date business and legal information is the strength of the LexisNexis Academic service. It allows you to search for newspapers, periodicals, public records, and legal documents, often within 24 hours of publication, and in some cases going back 20 years. Most documents are available in full text.

If you experience problems printing from Lexis Nexis, try one of these solutions:

• Download the article to PDF.   Open and print the PDF.
• Use the browser print button instead of the Lexis-Nexis built in button.

Fully digitized African American newspaper Los Angeles Sentinel from 1934 to 2005.

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. 

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.

Since 1911, the State House News Service in Boston has provided journalists, lobbyists, government officials and other civic and business leaders with high-quality, comprehensive, objective information about the activities of state government year-round.

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 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.