Newspapers

U.S. Newspapers: Full-text Resources

See also recent issues of free U.S. online news services on the web.

• Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902
  Searchable full-text, from the Brooklyn Library.
  
  
• America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 including Early American Newspapers, Series I. UVA only
  Searchable full text collection of scores of U.S. newspapers.
  
  
• Ethnic Newswatch UVA only
  An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.proffered by the mainstream press. Coverage begins in 1990.
  
  
• Factiva UVA only
  Articles from over 6,000 newspapers and periodicals plus news photographs. Newspaper coverage back to about 1980 for some titles, varies by title. Select "News pages" to browse daily issues of recent newspapers from many countries. Use for full-text of Wall St. Journal back to 1979.
  
  
• Florida Newspaper Article Database, 1762-1885
  From University of Florida's Special Collections, "approximately 1500 articles... from non-Florida newpapers."
  
  
• Lexis/Nexis UVA only
  Hundreds of U.S. and some foreign newspapers. Coverage back to about 1980, varies by title.
  
  
• Major African-American Newspapers, 1827-1860 UVA only
  Full-text database includes Freedom's Journal, The North Star and National Era.
  
  
• Proquest Historical Newspapers UVA only
  Searchable and browseable. New York Times (1851-2003), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1997), the Chicago Tribune (1890-1985) and the Washington Post (1877-1987). For more recent issues of these titles, use Factiva.
  
  
• The Pennsylvania Gazette: 1728-1783 UVA only
  Searchable full-text for this newspaper founded by Ben Franklin.
  
  
• The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783
  Indexed, searchable database of over 50,000 full-text articles. Contains references to music, lyrics, dance and theater found in American newspapers, including those in French and German. See index of sample topics. CD-ROM Call Number PN2237 .C67 1997.
  
  
• Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1860-1865
  Free resource from the University of Richmond, Tufts University's Perseus Project, and the Virginia Center for Digital History.
  
  
• Silent Worker
  A popular national newspaper among the U.S. deaf population bewteen 1888 and 1929. From the Gallaudet University Archives.
  
  
• The Stars and Stripes
  U.S. Army newspaper published from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919. From the Library of Congress.
  
  
• Three Civil War Newspapers, 1860-1865 UVA only
  Full-text of The New York Herald, the Richmond Enquirer, and The Charleston Mercury. See also The Civil War in America from the Illustrated London News from Emory University.
  
  
• U.S. Newspaper Project: Digitized Newspapers from State Newspaper Programs
  Runs of varying lengths for 19th-20th centuries from the following states:
  Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii. Missouri, Utah.