Primary History News Sources

Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives offers five separate web-based resources, four of which are collections of historic American Newspapers and one of which is a genealogical source. ...   [more]
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American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Also Known as: APS Online
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine...   [more]
Holdings: 1740-1900

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
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    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Chicago Defender
- from Black Studies Center
Fulltext backfile of the Chicago Defender online, 1910-1975. The Chicago Defender was one of the most important African-American newspapers of the 20th century, having national readership and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1910-1975

Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United State...   [more]
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Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: LA TImes, ProQuest Historical Newspapers Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1985)
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of LA Times from 1881-1986....   [more]
Holdings: 1881-1986

New York Times (1851-2012), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and avail...   [more]
Holdings: 1851-2011

Pennsylvania Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: PA Historical Newspapers
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Wall Street Journal (1889-2001), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: wsj, ProQuest Historical Newspapers The Wall Street Journal
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers

Full-text of the Wall Street Journal. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, financial quotes, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printin...   [more]
Holdings: 1889-1999

Important History News Sources

17th-18th Century Burney Collection
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) and held by the British Library digitized and made available online. This represents the largest and most comprehen...   [more]

19th Century British Library Newspapers Parts 1 & 2
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
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Unrestricted Access

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: APCRL
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ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online
Historical newspapers of Austria, digitized by the Austrian National Library....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

BBC Monitoring: International Reports (via LexisNexis Academic)
Fulltext searchable coverage, 1979-present...   [more]

Black Studies Center
Resource combining the Chicago Defender online (1910-1975), the International Index to Black Periodicals, the Black Literature Index (1827-1940) and a variety of multimedia resources exploring ...   [more]

British Pathe
Enables preview of items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive, covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society
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Christian Science Monitor (1908-1999), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1908-1999

Chronicling America: Historical American Newspapers, 1880-1922
Also Known as: Washington Bee
Digitized versions of selected newspapers covering the period from 1900-1910, including the African American newspaper the Washington Bee....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Current Digest of the Russian Press Archive (1949-2013)
Also Known as: Current Digest of the Soviet Press , Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
- from East View Resources
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Holdings: 1949-2013

Densho Digital Archive of the Japanese American Experience
The Densho Digital Archive holds a wealth of visual history interviews and other materials that broadly document the Japanese American experience. These unique primary sources cover a span of history ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Factiva
Also Known as: Dow Jones Factiva, Factiva Dow Jones
Provides access to sources of national and international news, business and general information. News sources include newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. I...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Most publications begin in the late 1980's or early 1990's
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FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

Financial Times
Also Known as: Fiancial Times London
- from Newsbank Access World News
Online from Newsbank, 1998-. See record in Franklin for additional online access through Factiva, Lexis-Nexis, and other platforms: http://franklin.library.upenn.edu/record.html?id=FRANKLIN_4193081...   [more]
Holdings: 1998-

Financial Times Archive 1888 - 2021
Also Known as: Financial Times Historical Archive
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Holdings: 1888 - 2021
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
Also Known as: Gale NewsVault
Cross searches all Gale newspaper archives including 17th & 18th Century Burney Collection, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century UK Periodicals, Economist Historical Archives, Times ...   [more]

Georgian Newspaper Project
Searchable index to copies of historic Bath newspapers held by the Local Studies section of Bath Library. 1770 to 1800. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Harper's Magazine Digital Archive
Also Known as: harpers
- from publisher website
NOTE: 1 concurrent user...   [more]
Holdings: 1850-

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval....   [more]

ICON Database of International Newspapers
Also Known as: International Coalition on Newspapers Database
Database of information on newspapers published outside of the United States. It includes bibliographic descriptions of titles as well as specific information on institutions holdings of the same. Th...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

ICON International Coalition on Newspapers: Newspaper digitization projects
"...highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

Keesing's World News Archive
Also Known as: Keesing's Contemporary Archives, Keesing's Record of World Events
Provides analysis and synthesis of daily news from around the world in the form of monthly series articles. "These [articles] constitute a concise, accurate and unbiased account of important developme...   [more]
Holdings: 1987-
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Le Monde diplomatique
- from publisher website
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Holdings: 1954-
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Nation Digital Archive
Also Known as: The Nation Digital Archive , Nation
Page images (PDF) and searchable text (OCR) for all issues of The Nation....   [more]
Holdings: 1865-
Embargo: 1 month embargo on full-text

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1922-1993

Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, ...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.
    NewsBank U.S. Newspapers

Newspapers on Microform and Philadelphia Newspapers
This database provides holding and location information for over 800 newspapers on microfilm owned by Van Pelt Library. It also includes those newspapers published in Philadelphia in all formats. ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Pacifica Radio Archives
Pacifica Radio Archives is considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. Chronicling the political, cultural and artistic movement...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Paper of Record
A newspaper database of over 21 million (as of May 2007) digitized images from more than 200 newspapers. Developed in Canada, Paper of Record's largest representation comes from Canadian and Mexican n...   [more]

Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
At its height in the 1940s the Pittsburgh Courier was one of the most important african american newspapers in the country, had a national circulation of over 350,000 and was as widely read as the Chi...   [more]
Holdings: 1911-2002

Proquest Historical Newspapers
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
Multi-database search interface that allows for simultaneous searching of the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Defender, Pittsbugh Courier and Wall Street Journal...   [more]
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ProQuest News and Newspapers
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Parts 1-4
Documents on the arguments for and against slavery during the 17th-19th centuries, the worldwide Abolitionist movement and its internal debates, perspectives on colonization, slavery and the US Consti...   [more]

Sunday Times Historical Archive (1822-2006) (London, UK)
Also Known as: The Sunday Times Digital Archive
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The archive allows key word searching of articles appearing in the Times of London from 1785-2008. Click on "Home" and then "News Vault" to search all historical newspapers hosted by Gale Cengage and ...   [more]
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The Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr.
Beginning in 1765, and continuing over a dozen years, Harbottle Dorr, Jr., a merchant and a member of the Sons of Liberty, collected, annotated, and indexed newspapers and pamphlets. He wrote that he ...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

The Palestine Post, 1932-1950
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Unrestricted Access

The Word on the Street
The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides printed in Scotland between 1650 and 1910....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Time Magazine Archives, 1923-present
20thcenturymagazines...   [more]
Holdings: 1923-
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Times Digital Archive (1785-2009)
Also Known as: Times Digital Archive, London Times, Times of London
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The archive allows key word searching of articles appearing in the Times of London from 1785-2009. Click on "Home" and then "News Vault" to search all historical newspapers hosted by Gale Cengage and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1785-2009

Times of India (1838 - 2005), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1838 - 2005

Universal Newsreels
In the pre-TV era, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before every feature film and in dedicated newsreel theaters located in large cities. Unive...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Vestnord
A digital library of newspapers and periodicals from the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland from the years 1773 to 2001...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Washington Post (1877-2004), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: Washington Post
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1877-2004

World News Connection
Also Known as: WNC
English translations of non-U.S. media sources....   [more]
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World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
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    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

Zeitschriftendatenbank
Also Known as: ZDB
The worlds largest specialized database for serial titles (journals, annuals, newspapers etc., incl. e-journals), managed by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The ZDB contains more than 1.6 million bib...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Zeitungsinformationssystem
Also Known as: ZEFYS
Historical newspapers digitized by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, including the Amtspresse Preussens and DDR-Presse....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Related History News Sources

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

Arbeiter-Zeitung
Socialist newspaper (Vienna). 1945-1989 fully digitized and searchable....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Contemporary Women's Issues
This full-text database provides international coverage of current issues such as employment and the workplace, social & political issues, violence and exploitation, development and human rights, heal...   [more]
Holdings: 1992 to the present, (selected reports back to 1990).
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text, comprehensive archival database providing access to more than 400,000 articles in nearly 200 ethnic, minority and native press newspapers, magazines, and journals. Full text archive of Phi...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1960 to date. Updated monthly.

Facts on File
Also Known as: World News Digest @ Facts.com , World News Digest
Full-text of the Facts on File World News Digest from 1980 forward. World News Archive from 1940-79 and Reuters News for the last two weeks. facts.com...   [more]
Holdings: January 1980-present. Weekly updates. Hourly newsfeeds.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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    LN Academic becomes Nexis Uni transition
    LexisNexis Academic (old interface)

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.