News

Offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 historical American titles from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Included are journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses. The current collection, Ethnic NewsWatch™, covers 1990-present, and the historical collection, Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, spans 1959-1989. Ethnicities include: African American/Caribbean/African; Arab/Middle Eastern; Asian/Pacific Islander; European/Eastern European; Hispanic; Jewish; Native People.

A social liberal British national daily newspaper founded in 1821, known until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Its sister newspaper, The Observer, is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, first published in 1791.

To understand today’s version of American nationalism, we need to go back to the 1920s when the Klan re-emerged as a slick and successful recruiting and marketing engine that appealed to the fears and aspirations of middle-aged, middle-income, white protestant men in the middle of America. The goal of this project is to assemble and make fully-searchable a comprehensive collection of Klan and other white nationalist newspapers alongside newspapers published by Catholic, African-American and Jewish organizations to counter the narrative of hate and bigotry.

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

Weekly newspaper geared to the African-American community of New York City, New York. It is one of the oldest African-American newspapers in the United States. It has published columns by W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and was the first to recognize and publish Malcolm X. Source: Wikipedia

Top American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851, by The New York Times Company.

A social liberal British national daily newspaper founded in 1821, known until 1959 as the Manchester Guardian. Its sister newspaper, The Observer, is the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, first published in 1791.

Founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer, this is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the U.S. The Inquirer first became a major newspaper during the American Civil War when its war coverage was popular on both sides. The paper's circulation dropped after the war, then rose by the end of the 19th century.

African-American newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1907-1966. By the 1930s, the Courier was one of the top black newspapers in the United States. It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender.

This paper began as a four-page weekly called The Pittsburgh Gazette, first published in 1786 by Hugh Henry Brackenridge. This was the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains. Published by Joseph Hall and John Scull, the paper covered the start of the nation and published the newly adopted Constitution of the United States. Source: Wikipedia.

Deep backfile for New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Guardian and The Observer, The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post.

The digital backfile of the Wall Street Journal provides historical coverage of business news and worldwide financial markets. Part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers, this database delivers cover-to-cover full-images in PDF and searchable ASCII text.

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.
Coverage: 1877 - 1999