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IU affiliates have access to a huge number of newspapers and other periodicals. It can be difficult to find what you are looking for, but most people should find something in the "Best Bets" tab below.

At the top of the other tabs are some other best bets, followed by an alphabetical list of all the available resources.

For an even more comprehensive guide on historical newspapers and periodicals, see Wikipedia's list of online newspaper archives or:

Old News: Historical Newspapers and Periodicals
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International Coalition on Newspapers
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This page 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 sources.

Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1940. Includes access to Series 1-6.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.
American Periodicals Series Online
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Digital archive of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Based on a very comprehensive microfilm collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1940. Contains searchable full text of all extant issues of over 1000 titles, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. Can be cross-searched with historical newspaper archives.
British Library Newspapers
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Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles
Includes access to:

British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900:

Ranging from early tabloids like the Illustrated Police News to radical papers like the Chartist Northern Star, the 47 publications in Part I span national, regional, and local interests. Other notable papers of Part I include the Morning Chronicle, with famous contributors such as Henry Mayhew and John Stuart Mill; the Graphic, publishing both illustrations and news as well as illustrated fiction; and the Examiner, the radical reformist and leading intellectual journal.

British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900

Part II includes additional English regional newspapers with 22 additional publications. Researchers can find the newspapers of a number of towns and regions included in this collection: Nottingham, Bradford, Leicester, Sheffield, and York, as well as North Wales. The addition of two major London newspapers, The Standard and the Morning Post, captures conservative opinion in the nineteenth century, balancing the progressive, more liberal views of the newspapers that appear in Part I.

British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950

Part III includes 35 newspapers, encompassing provincial news journals like the Leeds Intelligencer and Hull Daily Mail, local interest publications such as the Northampton Mercury, and specialist titles such as the Poor Law Unions’ Gazette. Other noteworthy titles in Part III include the Westmoreland Gazette, whose early editor, Thomas De Quincy (of Confessions of an English Opium Eater) was forced to resign due to his unreliability.

British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950

From early newspaper titles like the Stamford Mercury to what may be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, the Scots Magazine, the 23 newspapers in Part IV offer local and regional perspectives from Aberdeen, Bath, Chester, Derby, Stamford, Liverpool, and York. In addition, Part IV includes the 1901-1950 runs of papers such as the Aberdeen Journal and Dundee Courier whose earlier newspapers are available in Part I and Part II.

British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950

With a concentration of titles from the northern part of the United Kingdom, the 36 newspapers in Part V includes titles from the Scottish localities of Fife, Elgin, Inverness, Paisley, and John O'Groats, as well as towns just below the border, such as Morpeth, Alnwick, and more. Includes access to the Coventry Herald, which features some of the earliest published writing of Mary Ann Evans (better known as George Eliot).
Chronicling America
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Access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Search historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.
NewspaperARCHIVE
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Digital access to more than 1000 historical newspapers from communities within Indiana.
Includes digitized copies and content of the follwing local Indiana Newspapers: Bloomington Evening World (1907-1923), Indiana Daily Student (1867-1923), Madison Herald, Indianapolis State Sentinel, Indianapolis Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Sun.
Newspapers.com World Collection
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Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Full articles from several nineteenth and twentieth century U.S. newspapers.
Readex AllSearch
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A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex collections. The full list now includes: African American Periodicals, African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American Underworld: The Flash Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, Nineteenth Century American Drama, Rand Daily Mail, and World Newspaper Archive.
South Asian Newspapers
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Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia featuring titles from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka presented in original page images

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America's Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of 1,000 American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, representing every state in the U.S.
Based on a collection of rare newspapers held by the American Antiquarian Society, with contributions from the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Library of Congress, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard, and private collections. Fully text-searchable; browseable by newspaper title.

Collections included:

African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers, Series 2
Caribbean Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900: The New Republic
Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922: From Farm to City
Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922: The Rise of Industry
Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
Early American Newspapers, Series 7, 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900: The Specialized Press
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection
Hispanic American Newspapers
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1940. Includes access to Series 1-6.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.

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America's Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of 1,000 American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, representing every state in the U.S.
Based on a collection of rare newspapers held by the American Antiquarian Society, with contributions from the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Library of Congress, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard, and private collections. Fully text-searchable; browseable by newspaper title.

Collections included:

African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers, Series 2
Caribbean Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900: The New Republic
Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922: From Farm to City
Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922: The Rise of Industry
Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
Early American Newspapers, Series 7, 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900: The Specialized Press
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection
Hispanic American Newspapers
American Periodicals Series Online
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Digital archive of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Based on a very comprehensive microfilm collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1940. Contains searchable full text of all extant issues of over 1000 titles, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. Can be cross-searched with historical newspaper archives.
Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO)
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1940. Includes access to Series 1-6.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.
Pennsylvania Gazette
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Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette covered colonial America, the revolution and the early republic. Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements. Also included in the Gazette are the texts of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and other documents.
Readex AllSearch
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A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex collections. The full list now includes: African American Periodicals, African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American Underworld: The Flash Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, Nineteenth Century American Drama, Rand Daily Mail, and World Newspaper Archive.
Virginia Gazette, 1736-1780
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Searchable content of the Virginia Gazette
The database contains the fully searchable content of the Virginia Gazette, which was published weekly in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1736-1780. The news covered all Virginia and included some items from the other colonies and from abroad.The newspaper was briefly published in Richmond in 1780.

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American Periodicals Series Online
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Digital archive of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Based on a very comprehensive microfilm collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1940. Contains searchable full text of all extant issues of over 1000 titles, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. Can be cross-searched with historical newspaper archives.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
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A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.
Readex AllSearch
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A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex collections. The full list now includes: African American Periodicals, African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American Underworld: The Flash Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, Nineteenth Century American Drama, Rand Daily Mail, and World Newspaper Archive.

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Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
African American Historical Serials Collection
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Includes primary source materials published 1829-1922, covering the history of African American life and religious organizations.
Includes more than 170 unique titles. Also includes reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals. Provides extensive coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions.
African American Newspapers
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This collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history, with first-hand reports of major events and issues of the day. Includes complete text of articles published in the United States.
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
America's Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of 1,000 American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, representing every state in the U.S.
Based on a collection of rare newspapers held by the American Antiquarian Society, with contributions from the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Library of Congress, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard, and private collections. Fully text-searchable; browseable by newspaper title.

Collections included:

African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers, Series 2
Caribbean Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900: The New Republic
Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922: From Farm to City
Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922: The Rise of Industry
Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
Early American Newspapers, Series 7, 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900: The Specialized Press
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection
Hispanic American Newspapers
America's Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of 1,000 American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, representing every state in the U.S.
Based on a collection of rare newspapers held by the American Antiquarian Society, with contributions from the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia; the Library of Congress, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard, and private collections. Fully text-searchable; browseable by newspaper title.

Collections included:

African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers, Series 2
Caribbean Newspapers
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876: From Colonies to Nation
Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900: The New Republic
Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922: From Farm to City
Early American Newspapers, Series 4, 1756-1922: The Rise of Industry
Early American Newspapers, Series 5, 1777-1922: An Emerging World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922: Compromise and Disunion
Early American Newspapers, Series 7, 1773-1922: Reform and Retrenchment
Early American Newspapers, Series 11, 1803-1899: From Agrarian Republic to World Power
Early American Newspapers, Series 12, 1821-1900: The Specialized Press
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection
Hispanic American Newspapers
American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO)
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society
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Digital access to the American Antiquarian Society’s collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1940. Includes access to Series 1-6.
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library. The AAS library contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, periodicals, music, and graphic arts material printed through 1876 in what is now the United States, as well as manuscripts and a substantial collection of secondary texts, bibliographies, and digital resources and reference works related to all aspects of American history and culture before the twentieth century.
American Indian Newspapers
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Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Includes 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
The bulk of the titles were founded in the 1970s, documenting the proliferation of Indigenous journalism that grew out of the occupation of Wounded Knee, meeting the demand for objective reporting from within Indian Country. Subjects covered include: self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.
American Israelite (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Digital access to the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States.
The newspaper's two goals were to spread the principles of Reform Judaism, and to keep American Jews in touch with Jewish affairs and their religious identity.
American Periodicals Series Online
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Digital archive of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Based on a very comprehensive microfilm collection of American magazines and journals, 1740-1940. Contains searchable full text of all extant issues of over 1000 titles, ranging from children's magazines to professional journals. Can be cross-searched with historical newspaper archives.
American Underworld : The Flash Press
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Access to the mid-19th Century newspapers of the "flash press." The focus of these titles is on crime and scandal; the content is often satirical and humorous.
The Flash Press covered the seamier aspects of urban life in the mid-19th century. Topics included prostitution, gambling, urban gangs, illicit sporting activities, and sensational crimes. To many of their readers, the Flash Press also conveyed an implicit threat of blackmail, which often led to very ephemeral print runs.
Associated Press Images Collection (EBSCO)
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An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope with images dating back as early as 1826.
Atlanta Constitution (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Provides a glimpse into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of the southeastern United States from Reconstruction through the late 20th century. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Explore the paper’s perspective on local events of major international significance,
from post-Civil War Reconstruction, to the first taste of Coca-Cola in 1886, to the Race Riots of 1907, the Civil Rights sit-ins of the 1960s, and the election of the first black mayor in 1973.
Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. It was the first Black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Baltimore Sun (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The Baltimore Sun reported on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, Washington D.C. politics, Americana, and literature.
Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Boston Globe.
Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-2011 with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.
The Chicago Tribune (1849-1996) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Additional access options:

Access to the Chicago Tribune from 2008 – recent (coverage extends to within days of the current issue) is at https://libraries.indiana.edu/chicago-tribune-proquest-digital-microfilm. This is a digitized microfilm of the Chicago Tribune.

The IUB Library holds the physical microfilm for the Tribune as well. The microfilm copy is especially important given that some articles are not available in the ProQuest resource because of the Supreme Court's Tasini ruling concerning the copyright rights of independent journalists and writers. ProQuest entries carry a note referring one to the microfilm copy. Here is the link to the physical microfilm in IUCAT: http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8070516
Cincinnati Enquirer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Provides full text access to The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1841 to 2009.
Detroit Free Press:(ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Detroit Free Press.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Full text, primary sources for studying the history of the music, film and entertainment industries. Includes access to Music Magazine Archive.
An archival research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Includes access to Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1: Music, Radio and The Stage ; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 2: Cinema, Film and Television (Part 1) ; Music Magazine Archive: Folk ; Music Magazine Archive: Hip-hop ; Music Magazine Archive: Rock ; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 5: Video Gaming.
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
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Searchable, full text of ethnic and minority newspapers in the U. S.
Evening Star
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The Evening Star was regarded as the “paper of record” for Washington, D.C. It included coverage of the daily activities of every branch of government.
Frank Leslie’s Weekly
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Frank Leslie’s Weekly, later known as Leslie’s Weekly, and originally titled Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, was an American illustrated literary and news publication. One of several such publications started by publisher and illustrator Frank Leslie, it ran from 1855 to 1922.
Godey's Lady's Book
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The most popular women's periodical of its day, with stories, poems, fashion, illustrations and music.
Godey's Lady's Book was intended to entertain, inform and educate the women of America. In addition to fashion descriptions and plates, the early issues included biographical sketches, articles about mineralogy, handcrafts, female costume, the dance, equestrienne procedures, health and hygiene, recipes and remedies and the like. Each issue also contained two pages of sheet music, written essentially for the piano forte. Gradually the periodical matured into an important literary magazine containing extensive book reviews and works by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and many other celebrated 19th century authors who regularly furnished the magazine with essays, poetry and short stories. Also includes hand-colored fashion plates, mezzotints, engravings, woodcuts and, chromolithographs.
Harper's Bazaar Archive
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Searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of every issue of Harper's Bazaar from its first appearance in 1867 to the current month.
Chronicle of 20th century American and international fashion, culture, and society.
Harper's Weekly 1857-1912
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A full text archive of the important 19th-century American publication Harper's Weekly, with faceted search functionality
Electronic access to the illustrated 19th century "Journal of Civilization," for a 56-year period: 1857-1912. Includes illustrations, cartoons, editorials, biographies, literature and advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion in this era. Also provides images in three sizes and offers the capability for producing high quality image printouts, and allows you to save pages as JPEG files.

With HarpWeek, you can:

Browse Harper's Weekly issues by a Table of Contents of included articles and illustrations
Browse Harper's Weekly issues by page images
Search for text or phrases within the pages of Harper's Weekly
Use the thesaurus-based index to find articles
Search synopses of fictional works within Harper's Weekly
Search cross-index groupings using the Subject Headings feature
Limit searches to one of 16 Harper's Weekly "Features": Advertisements, Article series, Biographical sketches/obituaries, Cartoons, Editorials, Fiction, Government announcements, Humor/satirical commentaries, Illustrations, Maps, News stories/items, Panoramic views, Poetry, Portraits, Publisher's notices and Travel narratives.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
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Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century.
Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century, covering mostly the West and Southwest, but also Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Topics covered range from literature to politics, to labor and social movements. Based on the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, this fully searchable database complements America's Historical Newspapers.
Hoosier State Chronicles
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Provides access to digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers.
Hoosier State Chronicles is operated by the Indiana State Library and funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. The Indiana titles digitized through NDNP are also available at the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, along with over 8 million newspaper pages from around the United States.
Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to newspapers and periodicals covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Times.
The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.

Newspaper Navigator
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This application enables you to search and explore historic newspaper photographs. You can search by keyword over the photos' captions (extracted from the OCR of each newspaper page), as well as search by visual similarity. The visual similarity search capability retrieves relevant photos by empowering you to train a machine learning algorithm by selecting photos that you are interested in. The application contains 1.56 million photos from the Newspaper Navigator dataset, consisting of all extracted photos in the dataset published between 1900 and 1963 with confidence scores above 90%.

NewspaperARCHIVE
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Digital access to more than 1000 historical newspapers from communities within Indiana.
Includes digitized copies and content of the follwing local Indiana Newspapers: Bloomington Evening World (1907-1923), Indiana Daily Student (1867-1923), Madison Herald, Indianapolis State Sentinel, Indianapolis Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Sun.
Newspapers.com World Collection
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Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.
New York Times with Index (1851-2010)
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Full text of New York Times articles from 1851-2010, plus searching using the Times Index 1851-1993.
New York Tribune/Herald Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Tribune/Herald Tribune.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
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A digital archive of American historical newspapers from the 19th century, including over 1.5 million full-text pages, many complete with images.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.
Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive
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The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. By the 1940s it was the most widely circulated paper in the region and included a weekly English section for second generation Japanese Americans. With the onset of World War II, the paper was forced to cease publication after its publisher, H. Toyosaku Komai, and most of the Komai family were arrested and interned for the duration of the war. The Rafu Shimpo quickly revived publication after the war and capitalized on being the first Japanese American newspaper to resume publication in January of 1946. The newspaper outlasted all its local competitors and became the most prominent and preeminent Japanese American publication in the United States.
Coverage:1904 - 2021
Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
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Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Readex AllSearch
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A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex collections. The full list now includes: African American Periodicals, African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American Underworld: The Flash Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, Nineteenth Century American Drama, Rand Daily Mail, and World Newspaper Archive.
Revolution
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Weekly women’s rights newspaper, and the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association formed by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to secure women’s enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full text of the Wall Street Journal, America's business newspaper. Additional access options for the Wall Street Journal are available.

Additional access options:

Access to the Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, 1984 - current (https://libraries.indiana.edu/wall-street-journal)
Access to the Wall Street Journal Online (wsj.com and via apps) (https://libraries.indiana.edu/wall-street-journal-online)
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The full text of the Washington Post from 1877 - 2000, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Washington Post (https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/majornews).
From 1877 - 2000, every backfile issue of The Washington Post has been digitized from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. You can search using basic keyword, guided, publication-specific searches, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. You may also browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition.
Women's Magazine Archive
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Contains the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines.

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Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
NewspaperARCHIVE
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Digital access to more than 1000 historical newspapers from communities within Indiana.
Includes digitized copies and content of the follwing local Indiana Newspapers: Bloomington Evening World (1907-1923), Indiana Daily Student (1867-1923), Madison Herald, Indianapolis State Sentinel, Indianapolis Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Sun.
Newspapers.com World Collection
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Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.

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60 minutes : 1997-2014
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Provides access to streaming video of 60 Minutes, the CBS television news program.
Online collection of 500 hours of video from 18 years of broadcasts. Each news segment within the collection serves as a standalone short documentary on a specific news topic. Also includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning.
Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
African American Newspapers (1827-1998)
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Provides searchable, online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. Includes newspapers from more than 35 states covering life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment, and more.
Some titles lasted a short time, or few extant issues have been found, so that the database may contain as little as a single issue from a source. Other newspapers had longer lives, and long runs of issues are available.

African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998:
Beginning with Freedom’s Journal (NY)—the first African American newspaper published in the United States—the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York
Age, L’Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman’s Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, and The Appeal (MN).

African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956:
Key titles include Frederick Douglass’s New National Era (Washington, DC), Washington Tribune (Washington, DC), Chicago Bee (Chicago, IL), The Louisianian (New Orleans, LA), The Pine and Palm (Boston, MA), National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY), New York Age (New York, NY), Harlem Liberator (New York, NY), North Carolina Republican and Civil Rights Advocate (Weldon, NC), and Southern News (Richmond, VA).
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
American Indian Newspapers
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Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Includes 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
The bulk of the titles were founded in the 1970s, documenting the proliferation of Indigenous journalism that grew out of the occupation of Wounded Knee, meeting the demand for objective reporting from within Indian Country. Subjects covered include: self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.
American Israelite (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Digital access to the longest-running English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the United States.
The newspaper's two goals were to spread the principles of Reform Judaism, and to keep American Jews in touch with Jewish affairs and their religious identity.
Associated Press Collections Online
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The Associated Press Collections Online makes content of the Associated Press Corporate Archives, AP Images, and AP Archive available to libraries worldwide.
Collections include:
European Bureaus Collection: From Vienna, its chief listening post, and also from Prague and Warsaw, the Associated Press (AP) covered Eastern Europe during World War II and the Cold War. This collection is composed almost entirely of rare wire copy, recording the declining influence of the Soviet Union, the last days of the Iron Curtain, and the political and economic restructuring of the former Soviet satellites.

Middle Eastern Bureaus Collection: offers access to records from some of the Associated Press’s (AP) most active international bureaus – Jerusalem, Ankara, and Beirut, as well as their surrounding areas – delivering the exclusive stories behind the headlines from 1967 to 2005.

News Features & Internal Communications: This collection provides access to internal Associated Press publications dating from the turn of the twentieth century, offering insight into the AP, its staff, and the history of news coverage.

U.S. City Bureaus Collection: The U.S. City Bureaus Collection offers access to records from the AP's domestic bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.

Washington Bureau Collection, Part I: This collection provides access to Associated Press (AP) records documenting the administrations of eleven US presidents (1938-2009), including an extensive assortment of wire copy covering press conferences, travel, speeches, campaigns, and messages to Congress.

Washington Bureau Collection, Part II: This collection covers significant news reporting on the key issues, individuals, and events in the history of World War I and the post-war period in America and abroad.
Associated Press Images Collection (EBSCO)
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An electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. International in scope with images dating back as early as 1826.
Atlanta Constitution (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Provides a glimpse into the political, economic, cultural, and social life of the southeastern United States from Reconstruction through the late 20th century. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Explore the paper’s perspective on local events of major international significance,
from post-Civil War Reconstruction, to the first taste of Coca-Cola in 1886, to the Race Riots of 1907, the Civil Rights sit-ins of the 1960s, and the election of the first black mayor in 1973.
Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This database provides full-page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2010). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
The Atlanta Daily World had the first Black White House correspondent and was the first Black daily newspaper in the nation in the 20th century.
Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. It was the first Black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. It was the first Black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Baltimore Sun (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The Baltimore Sun reported on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, Washington D.C. politics, Americana, and literature.
Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Barron's (ProQuest Recent Newspapers)
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Online version of Barron's, a weekly newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company.
Barron's is a leading source of financial news, providing in-depth analysis and commentary on stocks, investments and how markets are moving across the world.
Boston Globe (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Boston Globe.
Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago Defender, African-American newspaper founded in 1905.
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender (1966-1973 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago daily defender (1960-1973 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1909-1966 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1921-1967 : National ed) ; Weekend Chicago Defender (1980-2008) ; Chicago daily defender (1973-2010 : Daily ed.)
Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-2011 with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.
The Chicago Tribune (1849-1996) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.

Additional access options:

Access to the Chicago Tribune from 2008 – recent (coverage extends to within days of the current issue) is at https://libraries.indiana.edu/chicago-tribune-proquest-digital-microfilm. This is a digitized microfilm of the Chicago Tribune.

The IUB Library holds the physical microfilm for the Tribune as well. The microfilm copy is especially important given that some articles are not available in the ProQuest resource because of the Supreme Court's Tasini ruling concerning the copyright rights of independent journalists and writers. ProQuest entries carry a note referring one to the microfilm copy. Here is the link to the physical microfilm in IUCAT: http://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/8070516
Cincinnati Enquirer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Provides full text access to The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1841 to 2009.
CNN Video Collection
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Access to CNN’s specials and feature programming on business, economics, technology, environmental studies, health, women’s studies, and human rights.
Highlights include: “We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World;” an interview series with female leaders including Beyonce, Sheryl Sandberg, Oprah, Tina Brown, Michelle Wie, Nancy Pelosi; series like “Future Finance”, “Passion to Portfolio”, “Eco Solutions;" specials on human trafficking, global poverty, and other human rights issues around the world; features on global cities, travel, world cultures, religion, food, and lifestyles outside the western hemisphere.
Communist Historical Newspaper Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Digital access to Communist Party newspapers, covering workers’ rights, social issues, national and international politics, culture and Party activity.
Includes such notable contributors as writer Richard Wright, folk singer Woody Guthrie, and political cartoonist Robert Minor. These publications were not only used by Party members to share news and exchange ideas. A large number of subscribers in the late 1950s-1960s were CIA agents or front companies linked to the CIA.
Detroit Free Press:(ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Detroit Free Press.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Full text, primary sources for studying the history of the music, film and entertainment industries. Includes access to Music Magazine Archive.
An archival research resource containing primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Includes access to Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 1: Music, Radio and The Stage ; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 2: Cinema, Film and Television (Part 1) ; Music Magazine Archive: Folk ; Music Magazine Archive: Hip-hop ; Music Magazine Archive: Rock ; Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 5: Video Gaming.
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
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Searchable, full text of ethnic and minority newspapers in the U. S.
Ethnic NewsWatch
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Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America; full text and searchable in English and Spanish
Evening Star
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The Evening Star was regarded as the “paper of record” for Washington, D.C. It included coverage of the daily activities of every branch of government.
Factiva
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Provides full-text access to national and international newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, and historical market data.
Forbes Archive
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Full text issues of Forbes Magazine, 1917-2000.
Forbes Magazine covers the business and financial world. Also includes analysis on business leaders, politics, entertainment, technology, communication, culture, and style.
HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index
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indexes articles from scholarly journals on Latin America, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.
Indexes articles that appear in more than 400 scholarly journals published throughout the world which regularly contain information on Latin America. The coverage includes materials written in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Harper's Bazaar Archive
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Searchable archive of every page, advertisement, and cover of every issue of Harper's Bazaar from its first appearance in 1867 to the current month.
Chronicle of 20th century American and international fashion, culture, and society.
Herald Times Online
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Local newspaper for Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding communities. Access is available via Access World News, 1988-Present (with a slight lag time for new issues). Available on and off campus.
Local newspaper for Bloomington, Indiana, and surrounding communities. Users may access the E-Edition of the HTO here --
https://heraldtimesonline-in.newsmemory.com/
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
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Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century.
Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century, covering mostly the West and Southwest, but also Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Topics covered range from literature to politics, to labor and social movements. Based on the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, this fully searchable database complements America's Historical Newspapers.
Hoosier State Chronicles
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Provides access to digital images of Indiana's historic newspapers.
Hoosier State Chronicles is operated by the Indiana State Library and funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act. The Indiana titles digitized through NDNP are also available at the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, along with over 8 million newspaper pages from around the United States.
Indianapolis Star (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Provides full text access to The Indianapolis Star from 1903 to 2004.
Jewish Exponent (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Newspaper focused on developments in Israel, efforts to rescue Jews the world over from repressive regimes, and the ever-expanding role of Jewish people in American public life.
The Jewish Exponent garnered honors each year from the American Jewish Press Association for excellence in Jewish journalism for its news, features, reviews and commentary.
Leftist Newspapers and Periodicals (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to newspapers and periodicals covering Communist, Socialist and Marxist thought, theory and practice. Issues covered include workers’ rights, organized labor, labor strikes, Nazi atrocities, McCarthyism’s rise after WWII, Civil Rights, and modern-day class struggles.
LGBT Magazine Archive
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Access to archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Includes access to collection 1 and collection 2.
Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts.
Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950
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Liberty Magazine Historical Archive, 1924-1950 provides users engaged in research of the 20th century a range of art, stories, articles and advertisements offering insight into Depression Era and World War II America.
Life Magazine Archive
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Full text issues of Life Magazine, 1936-2000.
Life Magazine featured story-telling through documentary photographs and informative captions. Each issue visually depicted national and international events and topical stories.
Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Times.
The full text of the Los Angeles Times, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type.
March of Time
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Time, Inc.'s "newsreel" coverage of current events.
MasterFILE Complete
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Index with full text to periodicals in a broad range of disciplines.
Designed specifically for public libraries this resource provides full-text for periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health. It also provides indexing and abstracts for all of the publications in the collection. Includes full text from over 1,600 magazines and journals, and nearly 450 full-text reference books, in addition to more than 73,000 primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps, and flags. It offers PDF backfiles beginning in 1917 for key publications including, American Libraries and History Today.
Meet the Press
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Meet the Press online contains over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.
Miami Herald Historical and Current
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Access to Miami’s oldest surviving newspaper, providing a record of daily life in South Florida.
Founded when Miami’s population was less than 5,500, The Miami Herald evolved with the south Florida city, offering detailed coverage of the development of Bayfront Park and the East Coast Railway to the Keys, as well as the Everglades Reclamation Project and the rise of the aviation industry. The Herald staff has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes; the first was awarded in 1951 for its coverage of U.S. Senate hearings on Miami’s gambling parlors. The paper’s most notable columnists have included political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., journalist Mirta Ojito, humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiassen.

Newspaper Navigator
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This application enables you to search and explore historic newspaper photographs. You can search by keyword over the photos' captions (extracted from the OCR of each newspaper page), as well as search by visual similarity. The visual similarity search capability retrieves relevant photos by empowering you to train a machine learning algorithm by selecting photos that you are interested in. The application contains 1.56 million photos from the Newspaper Navigator dataset, consisting of all extracted photos in the dataset published between 1900 and 1963 with confidence scores above 90%.

NewspaperARCHIVE
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Digital access to more than 1000 historical newspapers from communities within Indiana.
Includes digitized copies and content of the follwing local Indiana Newspapers: Bloomington Evening World (1907-1923), Indiana Daily Student (1867-1923), Madison Herald, Indianapolis State Sentinel, Indianapolis Star, Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Sun.
Newspapers.com World Collection
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Contains full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.
Includes access to newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom & Ireland, Australia, and Panama.
New York Amsterdam News (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news.
New York Times with Index (1851-2010)
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Full text of New York Times articles from 1851-2010, plus searching using the Times Index 1851-1993.
New York Tribune/Herald Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Tribune/Herald Tribune.
Nexis Uni
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Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)
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Social issues series for coverage of current events topics. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, and primary documents.
Pittsburgh Courier (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Pittsburgh Courier, African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2010), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format. (OCLC)
Points of View Reference Center
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Resource that present multiple sides of an issue, helping students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understanding of controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.
Covers more than 400 core topics, each with an overview (objective background / description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Includes materials from leading political magazines, newspapers, radio and television news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.
Washington Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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The full text of the Washington Post from 1877 - 2000, with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Washington Post (https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/majornews).
From 1877 - 2000, every backfile issue of The Washington Post has been digitized from cover to cover, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements. You can search using basic keyword, guided, publication-specific searches, and relevancy search techniques to locate information. You may also browse through issues page by page, as one would browse a printed edition.
Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive
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The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. By the 1940s it was the most widely circulated paper in the region and included a weekly English section for second generation Japanese Americans. With the onset of World War II, the paper was forced to cease publication after its publisher, H. Toyosaku Komai, and most of the Komai family were arrested and interned for the duration of the war. The Rafu Shimpo quickly revived publication after the war and capitalized on being the first Japanese American newspaper to resume publication in January of 1946. The newspaper outlasted all its local competitors and became the most prominent and preeminent Japanese American publication in the United States.
Coverage:1904 - 2021
Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982
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Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Readex AllSearch
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A streamlined platform for efficiently searching across Readex collections. The full list now includes: African American Periodicals, African Newspapers: The British Library Collection, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, American Underworld: The Flash Press, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, Nineteenth Century American Drama, Rand Daily Mail, and World Newspaper Archive.
Service Newspapers of World War Two
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Provides access to over 200 World War II service newspapers published during the war years and the immediate aftermath (1939-1948).
In addition to acting as a mouthpiece for the troops, service newspapers brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas. Titles from all the key theaters are featured, including some non-English material in German, Czech, Hindi, Russian, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Swahili, and other African dialects. Includes access to modules 1 and 2.
Time Magazine Archive
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Full text issues of Time Magazine, 1923-2000.
Intended to be read in under an hour, each issue of Time contains reports of national and international current events, politics, sports, and entertainment. First published in 1923, Time attempts to collect the relevant news for a given week.
Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s
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Digital access to papers promoting as well as those opposing white nationalism. Includes local, regional, and national newspapers published by Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers from across the U.S. It also includes key anti-Klan voices from newspapers published by ethnic, Catholic, and Jewish organizations.
US Newsstream
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Provides access to current and archived news content. Includes newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.
Also includes a collections of local and regional newspapers, cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Vogue Archive
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Searchable, full text of Vogue magazine
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full text of the Wall Street Journal, America's business newspaper. Additional access options for the Wall Street Journal are available.

Additional access options:

Access to the Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition, 1984 - current (https://libraries.indiana.edu/wall-street-journal)
Access to the Wall Street Journal Online (wsj.com and via apps) (https://libraries.indiana.edu/wall-street-journal-online)
Women's Magazine Archive
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Contains the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines.
Women's Wear Daily Archive
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A comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily, from the first issue in 1910 to material from within the last twelve months, reproduced in high-resolution images.
World News Digest
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Provides summaries of domestic and international news.
World News Digest, formerly known as Facts On File, provides summaries of world and domestic news stories 1940-present. It covers major political, social, and economic events, including elections, wars and conflicts, and government and civics information. Maps and charts are included, as are graphs, historic photographs, and story indexes by decade, country, and topic.
World Newsreels Online
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Collection of streaming videos that features full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the first half of the twentieth century.
World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966 captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. Key collections include: Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time. Produced from 1929 through the early post-war period, these films give scholars insight into how people learned about and lived through the events that occurred during this period of history.

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Ethnic NewsWatch
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Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America; full text and searchable in English and Spanish
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
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Digital archive of historical newspapers. Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.

Note that several important Black-owned newspapers are found within this database.

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African American Newspapers
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This collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history, with first-hand reports of major events and issues of the day. Includes complete text of articles published in the United States.
African American Newspapers (1827-1998)
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Provides searchable, online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. Includes newspapers from more than 35 states covering life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment, and more.
Some titles lasted a short time, or few extant issues have been found, so that the database may contain as little as a single issue from a source. Other newspapers had longer lives, and long runs of issues are available.

African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998:
Beginning with Freedom’s Journal (NY)—the first African American newspaper published in the United States—the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York
Age, L’Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman’s Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, and The Appeal (MN).

African American Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1956:
Key titles include Frederick Douglass’s New National Era (Washington, DC), Washington Tribune (Washington, DC), Chicago Bee (Chicago, IL), The Louisianian (New Orleans, LA), The Pine and Palm (Boston, MA), National Anti-Slavery Standard (New York, NY), New York Age (New York, NY), Harlem Liberator (New York, NY), North Carolina Republican and Civil Rights Advocate (Weldon, NC), and Southern News (Richmond, VA).
African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995, features more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
African American Historical Serials Collection
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Includes primary source materials published 1829-1922, covering the history of African American life and religious organizations.
Includes more than 170 unique titles. Also includes reports and annuals from African American religious organizations and social service agencies, as well as African American periodicals. Provides extensive coverage of African American religious organizations, churches and institutions.
American Indian Newspapers
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Collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada. Includes 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.
The bulk of the titles were founded in the 1970s, documenting the proliferation of Indigenous journalism that grew out of the occupation of Wounded Knee, meeting the demand for objective reporting from within Indian Country. Subjects covered include: self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective.
Atlanta Daily World (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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This database provides full-page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2010). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format.
The Atlanta Daily World had the first Black White House correspondent and was the first Black daily newspaper in the nation in the 20th century.
Baltimore Afro-American (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Access to the Baltimore Afro-American, one of the most widely circulated Black newspapers on the Atlantic coast. It was the first Black newspaper to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents. Includes news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago Defender, African-American newspaper founded in 1905.
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago daily defender (1966-1973 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago daily defender (1960-1973 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1909-1966 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Big weekend ed.), Chicago defender (1973-1975 : Daily ed.), Chicago defender (1921-1967 : National ed) ; Weekend Chicago Defender (1980-2008) ; Chicago daily defender (1973-2010 : Daily ed.)
Ethnic NewsWatch
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Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America; full text and searchable in English and Spanish
Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971
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Searchable, full text of ethnic and minority newspapers in the U. S.
HAPI Hispanic American Periodicals Index
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indexes articles from scholarly journals on Latin America, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.
Indexes articles that appear in more than 400 scholarly journals published throughout the world which regularly contain information on Latin America. The coverage includes materials written in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980
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Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century.
Digital collection of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the United States since the 19th century, covering mostly the West and Southwest, but also Illinois, Indiana, and New York. Topics covered range from literature to politics, to labor and social movements. Based on the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, this fully searchable database complements America's Historical Newspapers.
Los Angeles Sentinel (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel.
New York Amsterdam News (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news.
Pittsburgh Courier (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Pittsburgh Courier, African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
This database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2010), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.). The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in PDF format. (OCLC)

This tab is arranged geographically in the following categories: Africa, East Asia, Eastern Europe and Russia/USSR, Islamic World, Latin America, South Asia, UK, and Western Europe.

Some databases would have fallen into multiple categories and are listed under "Transregional/Global" at the top of the list.

Transregional/Global:

Access World News
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Includes electronic editions of hundreds of large and small U.S. newspapers and titles worldwide.
Source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Offers coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Covers a range of disciplines, including political science, journalism, English, history, environmental studies, sociology, economics, education, business, health, and social sciences. Enables researchers to track subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics.
Alternative Press Index
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Bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and leftist periodicals.
Focus is on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, LGBT, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism.
Alternative Press Index Archive
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Alternative Press Index Archive offers both international and interdisciplinary coverage of a variety of alternative sources, indexing information on topics of cultural, economic, political and social change.
Focus is on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, LGBT, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism.
Apartheid: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996
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Digitized collection containing nearly 60,000 translated news broadcasts and publications, written by both the people who experienced apartheid and those around the world who watched, reacted to and analyzed it.
Church Missionary Society Periodicals
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Features publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
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FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world
The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. As such, the FBIS Daily Reports constitutes an archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news.

FBIS Daily Reports is comprised of the reports from Middle East and [North] Africa (MEA), 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia (NES), 1987-1996; South Asia (SAS), 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 1974-1980 and (AFR), 1987-1996; China (CHI), 1974-1996; Asia and the Pacific (APA), 1974-1987; East Asia (EAS), 1987-1996; Latin America (LAT and LAM), 1974-1996; Eastern Europe (EEU), 1974-1996; Soviet Union/Central Eurasia (SOV), 1974-1996; Western Europe (WEU), 1974-1996.

The IUB Libraries' Government Information, Maps and Microform Services (East Tower 2, or ET2), located on the 2nd floor of the Herman B Wells Library at 10th and Jordan, received these reports as part of the Federal Depository Library Program on microfiche. Feel free to contact ET2 staff regarding reports not yet available on this full text database, for earlier and later reports, and about related federal documents (including Congressional and Department of State documents).
International Herald Tribune Historical Archive, 1887-2013
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Features the complete run of the International Herald Tribune from its origins as the European Edition of The New York Herald and later the European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. The archive ends with the last issue of the International Herald Tribune before its relaunch as the International New York Times.
Daily English-language newspaper published in Paris, aimed at international English-speaking readers.
Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports
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This collection features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world.
Nexis Uni
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Includes articles from local, regional, national and international newspapers, magazines, online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, transcripts, and legal research, as well as federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790.
Service Newspapers of World War Two
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Provides access to over 200 World War II service newspapers published during the war years and the immediate aftermath (1939-1948).
In addition to acting as a mouthpiece for the troops, service newspapers brought information, entertainment and camaraderie to the forces at home and overseas. Titles from all the key theaters are featured, including some non-English material in German, Czech, Hindi, Russian, French, Italian, Afrikaans, Swahili, and other African dialects. Includes access to modules 1 and 2.
World News Connection
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World News Conenction is translated news from overseas sources.
World Newspaper Archive
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A collection of historical newspapers from around the globe. It was created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries- one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories.
World Newsreels Online
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Collection of streaming videos that features full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the first half of the twentieth century.
World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966 captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. Key collections include: Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time. Produced from 1929 through the early post-war period, these films give scholars insight into how people learned about and lived through the events that occurred during this period of history.

Africa:

African Newspapers
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Covers the people, issues, and events that shaped Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries, and other items.
Includes access to Series 1 and 2:

African Newspapers, Series 1, 1800-1922:

Features English- and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Covers such events/topics as the repercussions of the Atlantic slave trade, life under colonial rule and the results of the Berlin Conference, the emergence of Black journalism, the Zulu Wars and the rejection of Western imperialism.

African Newspapers, Series 2, 1835-1925

Features English- and foreign-language titles. Includes notable publications, such as the Demain (Algeria), Africa’s Luminary (Liberia), France Orientale (Madagascar), Al-Moghreb Al-Aksa (Morocco); O Moçambique (Mozambique), Voortrekker (Namibia), Nigerian Times (Nigeria), Munno (Uganda) and many widely sought South African titles from Cape Town, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg. Among the South African titles are Black Man, British Settler, Cape Times, Johannesburg Times, and South African Spectator.
African Newspapers: The British Library Collection
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Digital access to 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901.
Includes the following titles: Egyptian Gazette (Cairo), Journal Franco-Ethiopien (Djibouti); Central African Times (Blantyre, Malawi), Commercial Gazette (Port Louis, Mauritius), Times of Marocco (Morocco), St. Helena Guardian (Jamestown, St. Helena) and Express en Oranjevrijstaatsch Advertentieblad (Bloemfontein, South Africa).
Business Day (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Daily newspaper, published weekdays, covering sport, travel, books, arts and entertainment from a business-minded perspective. Business Day launched in 1985, the year the African National Congress met with white South African business leaders for the first time. Billed as “the national newspaper for decision makers,” the paper’s mission was to report on corporate news, economic policy, corporate governance and financial markets.
Business Day established itself as South Africa’s more liberal financial publication, paying special attention to issues related to black economic empowerment and offering robust coverage of antiapartheid demonstrations.
Financial Mail (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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The most widely-read business weekly in South Africa. The digital archive offers a comprehensive history of South African markets, the paper also covers topics of broad social importance, including the rise and fall of apartheid and major shifts in South African culture, labor and politics.
Rand Daily Mail, 1902-1985
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Newspaper published daily in Johannesburg, renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall.
Acclaimed 20th-century newspaper containing perspectives on South Africa and the African continent. Provides insight into events related to South Africa’s struggle for freedom and democracy. Highlights include: Benjamin Pogrund's extraordinary coverage of the Sharpeville massacre in 1960; Helen Zille's uncovering of Steve Biko’s murder at the hands of police in 1976; news-breaking reporting by Mervyn Rees and Chris Day about the apartheid state's effort to influence opinion, an exposé that sparked the scandal known as “Muldergate." Rand Daily Mail continued to be popular among progressive readers until—after adopting an outspoken anti-apartheid stance amid a massive clampdown by security forces—it was controversially closed in 1985.
SA Media
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Full text access to mainstream South African news publications, from 1978 to present day.
Includes 4.5 million articles. An average of 2500 new articles are added weekly.
Sowetan
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One of South Africa’s most prominent newspapers, the Sowetan was launched as a response to apartheid conditions in Soweto and other segregated communities. Impassioned editorials, engaging political columns and firsthand reporting helped the Sowetan become the country’s most widely circulated black paper.
After the South African government banned publication of the Post Transvaal and three other black newspapers in 1980, journalists, editors and publishers began producing the English-language paper the Sowetan. The newspaper includes contributions of legendary editors like Percy Qoboza and Aggrey Klaaste.
Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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Known as “the paper for the people,” South Africa’s largest Sunday newspaper has covered the people, issues and events that shaped South Africa for over a century. Through firsthand reporting, photographs, editorials, cartoons and more, the Sunday Times has recorded every major historical event of the 20th century.
Originally created as a sister publication of the Rand Daily Mail—the first South African newspaper to openly oppose apartheid—the Sunday Times has been publishing weekly since February 4, 1906. Its first issue sold out in three hours, and the paper’s popularity grew throughout the 20th century. Known for writers who were unafraid to tackle controversial stories, the Sunday Times garnered a reputation for its award-winning journalism, combative style and breaking news coverage.

East Asia:

Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search 朝日新聞クロスサーチ
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The newspaper is used by researchers interested in issues related to Japanese culture, politics, economy, and society.
Product specially designed for libraries and institutes.
It has the following content:

Scanned images of the newspaper from 1945-1984.
Full-text indexed searches from 1985 to the present.
Full-text plus PDF images of all regionally published Asahi news, charts, and pictures from November 2005 on.
Shukan Asahi (Asahi Weekly) from April 2000 on.
AERA weekly from the first issue on.
The 2007 edition of Chiezo.
Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) ) 民国时期期刊全文数据库
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Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database, created by Shanghai Library, contains around 10 million pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published from 1911 to 1949. It includes journals of all disciplines and subjects published at the time.
Japan Times Archive
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Archival content from The Japan Times.
Korea Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Digital access to The Korea Times, the oldest English-language newspaper in Korea. The paper covers international business, economic and financial news as well as regional issues and events.
Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Database 晚清期刊全文数据库
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Covers around 280,000 pieces of historical documents from 302 periodicals published during 1833-1911.
The collection includes almost all periodicals published during critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898 and Revolution of 1911. It contains the Women's Periodicals that advocated women's liberation and mental enlightenment, the Four Major Late Qing Dynasty Novel Journals as emerged during the great flourishing period of novels of the late Qing Dynasty, the Vernacular Chinese Periodicals founded to explore the people's mind and spread new knowledge, and the Science and Technology Periodicals which introduced new technologies and spread scientific knowledge. Users may have access to some 280,000 pieces of historical documents and browse or download them in full text.
Shen Bao Shu Ju Ku 申報數據庫
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Access to the full run of Shen Bao, one of the first modern Chinese newspapers. Includes images of the paper published from 1872 to 1949.
Instructions for access:

1. Select "Modern Documents"
2. Click on "login"
3. Click on the image above the "申報數據庫” in red color in the first row
Ta Kung Pao Full Text Database 大公報, 1902-1949
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Full text access to Ta Kung Pao (Da Gong Bao，大公報; formerly L'Impartial), one of the oldest newspapers in China.
The paper was founded in Tianjin in 1902. All editions (Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hankou, Hong Kong, Guilin) are included.
Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpō, 1898-1944 臺灣日日新报, 1898-1944
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Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo was an official newspaper of the Taiwanese government under Japanese colonial rule. It included news about legislation and the fluctuation of the social hierarchy, in addition to chronicling current events, and cultural activities.
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online
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English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912.
As the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to China’s contemporary rise.
Xiao Bao 小報, 1897-1949
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Access to more than 400 titles of tabloids published between 1897 to 1949. These popular newspapers covered modern life in late Qing and Republican China, focusing on leisure, entertainment, literature, film, theater and dance and the latest gossip.
Includes access to Series 1 through 4.
Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei dētabēsu 雑誌記事索引集成データベース
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Index to periodical articles published in Japanese, including those in former Japanese colonies
Zhong yang ri bao 中央日報, 1928-1949
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Full text of Zhong yang ri bao (Central Daily News), the official newspaper of Kuomingtang.
First published in 1928, Zhong yang ri bao (Central Daily News) is one of the world's oldest Chinese-language newspapers.

Eastern Europe and Russia/USSR:

Current Digest of the Russian Press
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Full-text English-language online digital archive containing over 10,000 articles from the Soviet/Russian press, government documents and special interest journals from 1949 to present
Demokratychna Ukraina
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Established initially as a Russian-language daily newspaper in the early 20th century, Demokratychna Ukraina (Демократична Україна, Democratic Ukraine) underwent dramatic transformation in the wake of the August 1991 coup attempt against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. In addition to changing the name of the newspaper, Demokratychna Ukraina began publishing in Ukrainian and altered its editorial policies to allow and, in fact, encourage a new kind of journalism that valued democratic ideas and ideals.
Donetsk and Luhansk Newspaper Collection
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Incorporates 10 rare newspapers from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk (Lugansk, in local spelling) regions of Ukraine.
Both Donetsk People's Republic and Lugansk People's Republic were established as independent state entities after local referendums conducted in May 2014 and organized by the separatists leaders. Although the results of the referenda have not been recognized neither by Ukraine, the EU or the United States, its direct result led to an all out war between the Ukrainian military and eastern Ukrainian pro-Russian separatists resulting in thousands of deaths from both sides. Newspapers in this database cover the period of military hostilities between the unrecognized states and the government of Ukraine (2013-2015) and contain research material for anyone studying the development of separatist movements in this part of the world.

Newspapers Included:

Boevoe znamia Donbassa
Boevoi listok Novorossii
Donetsk vechernii
Edinstvo
Nasha gazeta
Novorossiia
Vostochnyi Donbass
XXI vek
Zaria Donbassa
Zhizn' Luganska
Gudok Digital Archive
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Russian daily newspaper in publication since 1917. Gudok is one of the oldest and leading trade newspapers in Russia. At its inception it covered a range of topics dealing with the railway industry. It has also provided important commentary on Soviet and post-Soviet Russian culture, politics, and social life.
Some of the authors and journalists whose works appeared in Gudok were the famous Soviet journalist and satirist Ilya Ilf, and the writers Mikhail Zoshchenko, Lev Slavin, Sasha Krasny, and Alexander Kabakov. At the height of its popularity in the 1970s it had a daily circulation of 700,000.
Imperial Russia's Illustrated Press
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Provides access to five illustrated weekly magazines of late imperial Russia: Iskry, Russkaia illiustratsiia, Sinii zhurnal, Vseobshchii zhurnal, & Zhivopisnaia Rossiia.
Iskusstvo Kino Digital Archive
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Iskusstvo kino, established in 1931, is the leading journal of Russian, and formerly Soviet, cinema. It includes critical reviews of domestic and foreign film, scholarly articles on cinematic theory and history as well as the Russian culture and arts scene. Iskusstvo kino was first published under title Proletarskoe kino(1931-1932), then Sovetskoe kino(1933-1935), and finally under the present name (since 1936).
Izvestiia Digital Archive
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Searchable full-text archive of the Soviet newspaper "Izvestiia" from the first issue published in 1917.
Krokodil Digital Archive (DA-KRO)
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Krokodil was a satirical magazine published in the Soviet Union. Founded in 1922, it was first published as a supplement for Rabochaia gazeta. In 2001-2004 the title Krokodil was changed to Novyi Krokodil, but in 2005 it returned to the title Krokodil.
Published continuously until 2008, Krokodil was at one time the most popular magazine for humorous stories and satire, with a circulation reaching 6.5 million copies. Krokodil lampooned religion, alcoholism, foreign political figures and events, bureaucracy, and excessive centralized control. The caricatures found in Krokodil can be studied as a gauge of the 'correct party line' of the time. During the height of the Cold War, cartoons criticizing Uncle Sam, Pentagon, Western colonialism and German militarism were common in the pages of Krokodil.
LEF Digital Archive
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Digital archive of all 33 issues of Left Front of the Arts (Levyi Front Iskusstv), later New LEF (Novyi LEF).
Literaturnaia Gazeta Digital Archive
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Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the "father of Soviet literature," writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia's cultural heritage.
With its focus on literary and intellectual life, Literaturnaia gazeta allowed Soviet Russia’s preeminent authors, poets, and cultural figures a particular podium for commentary, affording perhaps fewer restrictions than might be possible in other publications.

Publication of Literaturnaia gazeta was completely suspended in 1942 and 1943, and no issues were produced. In 1944, only 8 issues were published. East View has acquired issues to complete this archive from a variety of sources, and represents the best known copy available. However, a few select issues are still missing, as has been noted on the appropriate archive pages.
Ogonek Digital Archive
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Ogonek is one of the oldest weekly magazines in Russia, having been in continuous publication since 1923.
Throughout its history Ogonek has published original works by such Soviet cultural figures as Vladimir Mayakovsky, Isaac Babel, Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the photographer Yuri Rost, and others. In 2005, issues #31-35 were not published. The lack of database content for this period does not indicate missing issues, rather it accurately reflects a period in which no issues were published due to a brief suspension due to an ownership change.
Pravda
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Digital archive of Pravda (Правда, Truth), the central daily of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Coverage is 1912-2009. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.
Pravda was launched by Lenin; it survived, usually under different titles, the repeated suspensions by the tsarist government before it became the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Many important Bolshevik leaders (including Stalin) worked with the newspaper. It voiced the views of the leadership of the Soviet Union.
Pravda Ukrainy Digital Archive
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Established in 1938 in Kyiv, Pravda Ukrainy (originally Sovetskaia Ukraina) was a Russian-language Soviet Ukrainian daily and a newspaper of record, serving as the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. As such the newspaper was the Ukrainian Communist Party’s leading print media agent in the dissemination of the party’s opinions about politics, culture, economics and other important issues.
By the early 1990s Pravda Ukrainy had become the complete opposite of the original newspaper, having jettisoned its previous ideological commitments, and instead embracing democratic principles, independent journalism, and an unrestrained criticism of the government - stances that drove its popularity and growing circulation. Due largely to financial struggles the newspaper ceased publication in 2014.
Sovetskaia Kul'tura Digital Archive
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Information on the developing and ever changing attitudes towards arts and culture in the Soviet and Russian societies.
Soviet Cinema Online: Periodicals and Newspapers 1918-1942
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Digital access to Soviet film magazines and newspapers 1918-1942, reflecting an interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian Film.
Sheds light on the production side of Soviet cinematography, as well as on the theoretical and practical concepts developed by the period’s leading directors and critics. Includes articles by leading Soviet directors (Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Abram Room), as well as members of the avant-garde LEF, leading authors and philologists.
Soviet Woman Digital Archive
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Published initially under the aegis of the of Soviet Women’s Anti-Fascist Committee and the Central Council of Trade Unions of the USSR, in the aftermath of the WWII in 1945, the Soviet Woman magazine began as a bimonthly illustrated magazine tasked with countering anti-Soviet propaganda. The magazine introduced Western audiences to the lifestyle of Soviet women, their role in the post-WWII rebuilding of the Soviet economy, and praised their achievements in the arts and the sciences.
he magazine covered issues dealing with economics, politics, life abroad, life in Soviet republics, women’s fashion, as well as broader issues in culture and the arts. One of its most popular features was the translations of Soviet literary works, making available in English, (and other languages) works of Russian and Soviet writers that were previously unavailable. An important communist propaganda outlet, the magazine continued its run until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
Vestnik Evropy
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One of Russia's earliest thick journals with a sizeable circulation. It was a multidisciplinary periodical covering history, politics, diplomacy, literature, social conditions, among others.
Za Vozvrashchenie Na Rodinu Digital Archive
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Access to all issues of the newspaper Za vozvrashchenie na Rodinu (Return to Motherland) from its very first issue in April of 1955 to 1960.

Islamic World:

Afghan Serials Collection. Partisan Publications from The Wahdat Library
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Collection of partisan serials from the Wahdat Library, including more than 2,500 individual issues of 46 newspapers and journals published in Persian, Pushto, Arabic, Urdu, and English.
The Afghan Serials Collection covers the use of the press by many groups that sought to shape Afghanistan’s social and intellectual landscape including the Communist People’s Democratic Party (PDPA); exiled loyalists to the deposed Afghan monarchy; independent humanitarians and intellectuals seeking to better their country; anti-Soviet mujaheddin groups from a range of political movements; the Taliban; and minority political parties that have emerged following the post-2001 transition towards democracy.

Latin America:

Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876
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Collection of 18th and 19th century newspapers published in the Caribbean. This resource is useful for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region back to the 18th century.
Most of the newspapers included were published in the English language, but a number of Spanish, French, and Danish language titles are also provided. Countries represented include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Virgin Islands. Also found within this resource are newspapers from Bermuda, an island not technically part of the Caribbean, but situated on shipping routes between Europe and this region and integrally related to this region.

Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico
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La Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México (HNDM) es un repositorio virtual de publicaciones periódicas de carácter histórico, que busca cumplir con los mismos objetivos que guían a la Hemeroteca Nacional de México (HNM): impulsar y favorecer la preservación, conservación y difusión del patrimonio hemerográfico del país. Es el mayor repositorio virtual de imágenes de periódicos y revistas impresos en México entre 1722 y 2010, con cerca de nueve millones de páginas digitales, en las cuales los usuarios pueden realizar búsquedas por palabras y frases dentro de sus contenidos textuales.

Latin American Newspapers
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Full text, searchable archive of newspapers published between 1805 and 1922 in Latin America.

South Asia:

Times of India (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Digitized full text of the world's most widely circulated English daily newspaper, originally published for English residents in India
South Asian Newspapers
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Searchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia featuring titles from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka presented in original page images

UK:

British Library Newspapers
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Comprehensive digital access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles
Includes access to:

British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900:

Ranging from early tabloids like the Illustrated Police News to radical papers like the Chartist Northern Star, the 47 publications in Part I span national, regional, and local interests. Other notable papers of Part I include the Morning Chronicle, with famous contributors such as Henry Mayhew and John Stuart Mill; the Graphic, publishing both illustrations and news as well as illustrated fiction; and the Examiner, the radical reformist and leading intellectual journal.

British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900

Part II includes additional English regional newspapers with 22 additional publications. Researchers can find the newspapers of a number of towns and regions included in this collection: Nottingham, Bradford, Leicester, Sheffield, and York, as well as North Wales. The addition of two major London newspapers, The Standard and the Morning Post, captures conservative opinion in the nineteenth century, balancing the progressive, more liberal views of the newspapers that appear in Part I.

British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950

Part III includes 35 newspapers, encompassing provincial news journals like the Leeds Intelligencer and Hull Daily Mail, local interest publications such as the Northampton Mercury, and specialist titles such as the Poor Law Unions’ Gazette. Other noteworthy titles in Part III include the Westmoreland Gazette, whose early editor, Thomas De Quincy (of Confessions of an English Opium Eater) was forced to resign due to his unreliability.

British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950

From early newspaper titles like the Stamford Mercury to what may be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, the Scots Magazine, the 23 newspapers in Part IV offer local and regional perspectives from Aberdeen, Bath, Chester, Derby, Stamford, Liverpool, and York. In addition, Part IV includes the 1901-1950 runs of papers such as the Aberdeen Journal and Dundee Courier whose earlier newspapers are available in Part I and Part II.

British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950

With a concentration of titles from the northern part of the United Kingdom, the 36 newspapers in Part V includes titles from the Scottish localities of Fife, Elgin, Inverness, Paisley, and John O'Groats, as well as towns just below the border, such as Morpeth, Alnwick, and more. Includes access to the Coventry Herald, which features some of the earliest published writing of Mary Ann Evans (better known as George Eliot).
British Periodicals Collection
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Searchable full-text of British periodicals from the late-seventeenth to the early-twentieth centuries. Coverage: 1680 to 1930.
Daily Mail Historical Archive:1896-2004
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Full text of Britain's Daily Mail 1896-2004
Economist Historical Archive
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The digital version of the weekly magazine, covering international news andd events. A leader in global market and geo-political analysis.
Eighteenth Century Journals
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Portal to British newspapers and periodicals of the 18th century
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2010
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The complete searchable run of the daily business newspaper.
Founded to serve the city of London, the Financial Times eventually broadened its coverage to global financial and economic issues. Incorporating its rival the Financial News in 1945, the Financial Times expanded in the post-war years, reporting on topics such as industry, energy and international politics in full for the first time. In the final decades of the twentieth century, coverage of management, personal finance and the arts was added.
Gale Primary Sources
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Provides an interactive research environment that allows researchers to cross-search Gale digital archives.
Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842-2003)
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Archive of the British pictorial weekly, full text and illustrations
Independent Historical Archive, 1986–2016
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The Independent is a major British daily national newspaper, launched in 1986 as an antidote to its often overtly politicized rivals.
LGBT Magazine Archive
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Access to archival runs of 26 of the most influential, longest-running serial publications covering LGBT interests. Includes the pre-eminent US and UK titles – The Advocate and Gay Times, respectively. Includes access to collection 1 and collection 2.
Chronicles more than six decades of the history and culture of the LGBT community. In addition to LGBT/gender/sexuality studies, this material also serves related disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, health, and the arts.
Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991
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Features the complete 62-year run of The Listener, the BBC periodical published from 1929-1991.
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals
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2.1 million periodical pages in the first two series from 19th century periodicals published in the UK.
Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938-1957
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Complete archive of the popular British photojournalism magazine, from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957. Includes full text and full color.
Publishers Weekly Digital Archive
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Published since 1872, Publishers Weekly contains news and book reviews, and ongoing coverage of the British book trade. The complete archive includes nearly 200,000 book reviews, and bestseller lists from 1895 forward.
Punch Historical Archive, 1841-1992
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This collection includes the complete run of Punch magazine and features search functionality across years on the Gale Newsvault platform.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection
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Full-text digital archive of newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom.
Digital collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). The resource helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", and includes nearly 1 million pages and approximately 1,270 titles.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspapers Collection
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Provides digital access to newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK.
Sunday Times Digital Archive 1822-2006
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The Sunday Times Historical Archive, 1822-2006 brings two centuries of news together in one resource, providing the complete run of the newspaper up to 2006, including all of its supplements, in one cross-searchable and browseable platform.
Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2000
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Provides access to one million pages of the newspaper's backfile, from its first issue to the end of 2000, including issues of the Sunday Telegraph from 1961.
Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
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The full text of The Times (London), images of pages and articles, search and limit by date and article type. Use Lexis-Nexis for 1986-today.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
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Access to the full text of reviews and articles in the Times Literary Supplement
World News Digest
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Provides summaries of domestic and international news.
World News Digest, formerly known as Facts On File, provides summaries of world and domestic news stories 1940-present. It covers major political, social, and economic events, including elections, wars and conflicts, and government and civics information. Maps and charts are included, as are graphs, historic photographs, and story indexes by decade, country, and topic.

Western Europe:

Compact Memory
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German-Jewish periodicals published between 1806 and 1938
Hemeroteca Digital
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Spanish periodicals online, 17th-20th centuries from the Spanish National Library.

Irish Adverts Project
The IFI Irish Film Archive, supported by a grant from the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Archiving Funding Scheme, has catalogued, digitised, restored and preserved a large collection of 35mm film television advertisements made in the 1960, ‘70s and ‘80s. These commercials were made for broadcast on Irish television by a number of prolific Irish advertising agencies including Wilson Hartnell, Birchall, Hunter and Arks, for a variety of corporations (both Irish and international).

Le Monde (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
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Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Le Monde, considered one of the newspapers of record for France.
This French-language newspaper was created at the request of General Charles de Gaulle as the German army was vacating Paris during World War II. At a time when other Parisian newspapers were accused of Nazi sympathies or other political alliances, Le Monde was established for its independence, and has been known for such ever since.

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