The Subject Guide for News & Newspapers has a tab for useful websites and historical news databases that are searchable online. Multiple historical newspapers can be searched simultaneously by using the database
Additional online sources:
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The AFRO Black History Archives: "The Vault"Spans over 100 years of various editions of the AFRO newspapers.
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International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON)
ICON is a digitization project of historic national and international newspapers sponsored by The Center for Research Libraries
Chronicling America Historical Newspaper Project of the Library of Congress. Search news from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
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Washington Evening StarSearchable database of The Washington Evening Star from 1852 - 1981. This resources was made possible through the Brown Fund.
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Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
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Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848This collection of French-language newspapers comprises the British Library's holdings of newspapers and periodical titles published in France from 1848 to 1852. Includes publications from the 1848 Revolution through the coup d'etat in 1851 to the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.
"Radical" Newspapers
AU Library has dozens of facsimile volumes of newspapers published by socialists, unions, and communists groups from 1881-1961. These and other volumes are shelved in our WRLC storage facility. They may be requested by through the library catalog. The volumes will be sent to the Borrowing Desk. They may need to be used in the library.
Years of coverage are approximate.
American Appeal 1926-27
American Socialist 1914-17
American Spectator 1932-34
Catholic Worker 1933-1961
Champion 1936-1937
Conscientious Objector 1943-46
Industrial Unionist 1932-34
Industrial Worker 1909-1911
Labor Action 1940-1958
Militant & New Militant 1928-1936
New Day 1920-1922
New Student 1922-1925
New York Communist 1919
Revolutionary Age 1918-19; 1929-32
Spanish Revolution 1936-38
Socialist 1919
Wilshire's 1904-1909
Weekly Review 1940-1943 (earlier years in storage)
Workers Age 1932-1941
Young Spartacus 1931-1935
Young Worker 1924-1936
Partial List of Additional Volumes in storage at the WRLC Center. These will be sent on request to the Borrowing Desk. The volumes must be used in the library.
Abolitionist Newspapers
AU Library has hundreds of facsimile volumes of African American newspapers published between 1840 and 1950. The Folio (oversized) volumes are shelved in the WRLC offsite storage facility but may be requested through the library catalog.
Here are some sample volumes:
National Era 1847 -1860
National Principia 1859-1861
National Anti-Slavery Standard 1840-1870
Additional Sources for Historical News
Searching for Images in Historic Newspapers
- Library of Congress Newspaper Navigator
- Allows searchers to view 1.5 million images in American newspapers dating 1789-1963.