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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Proquest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984).  The historical Atlanta Constitution collection offers both full page and article digital images in PDF format with searchable full text. 

Fully digitized coverage of the African American newspaper Baltimore Afro-American  from 1893 to 1988

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The collections are so varied as to include an unpublished manuscript music collection from Oxford, the vast engineering library of Linda Hall, and rare monograph and pamphlet area collections from various regions of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 may access the Chronicle one of three ways:

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

Anywhere including off-campus: https://link.ezproxy.neu.edu/login?url=https://www.chronicle.com

• If off-campus, you'll be prompted for myNEU username and password.
• Optionally, you can use the library bookmarklet, a browser plugin that customizes any journal URL the library subscribes to, allowing access with your myNEU username and password.

Anywhere including off-campus: Set up a personal account here using your Northeastern email address. 

• Use your personal account to access the Chronicle site from anywhere in the world. No special URL or plugin necessary. 
• Also works with the Chronicle iPad app.

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.

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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.

Rich collection important to a full understanding of Unites States history. Includes the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975),Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

All historical primary source documents from ProQuest, including American Periodicals Series (1740 - 1940), Ethnic Newswatch (1959 - present), Boston Globe (1872-1981), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Chicago Tribune (1849-1988), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), The New York Times (1851-2008), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).  For more primary sources, see our full list of primary source databases.

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.

Online full text of the NY Times from 1980 to the present.

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.