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News Resources
Guide Contents
Historical News Archives
United States focus
- America's Historical NewspapersFully searchable collection of founding newspapers, documenting America's past. The Libraries subscribes to Early American Newspapers Series 10, 1730-1900.
- Boston Globe, 1872-1991 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Coverage of New England and national news, coming from a unique Catholic view in its early years. The Globe won acclaim for its coverage of social issues and major stories, such as the Lizzie Borden murders, sex abuse in the Catholic Church and its strong anti-Vietnam Conflict stance. Includes the Boston Weekly Globe and the Boston Evening Globe. More recent coverage can be found using our Journal Title search.
- Chicago Defender, 1909-1975 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Searchable full-text and page images from leading African American news publication before World War I. The Defender covered many significant national events that received only cursory attention from other newspapers.
- Chicago Tribune, 1849-2013 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Searchable full-text and page images that rovides in-depth coverage during the Civil War period and includes many special editions such as the Lincoln Centenary Issue. More recent coverage can be found through the Journal Title search.
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980The single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers.
- Los Angeles Times, 1881-2014 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Searchable full text back to the first issue. For recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
- New York Times, 1851-2019 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
- New York Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Includes archival material from 21 newspapers covering New York State, including Binghamton, Elmira, Ithaca, New York, Rochester, and Rockland. Coverage begins in the late 1800s-early 1900s, depending on the publication. Recent coverage for the titles can be found using our Journal Title search.
- Wall Street Journal, 1889-2011 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Full text of the newspaper of record for business and economic news. For more recent coverage, search our Journal Titles.
- Washington Post, 1877-2006 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Historical coverage of the paper covering US political, capitol and national news. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Titles search.
- NYS Historic NewspapersThe NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history. Binghamton University's Colonial News 1946-May 1970 and Pipe Dream, September 1970-1974 are available on this site. This site also includes several newspapers from the Broome County region.
- New York Online Historical NewspapersThis website lists the names of newspapers and years covered, the county in which each newspaper is located and its online resources.
- Historical Newspapers OnlineUseful index of online archives of NYS newspapers and Afrcan-American Newspapers. Guide mainted by Cornell University Library.
Non-United States focus
- British Library Newspapers, 1800-1900Includes all the text, advertisements and illustrations from a wide variety of local, regional and national newspapers, political and radical publication are included. Access is to Part 1 and 2.
- Burney Newspapers Collection, 1600-1799The largest archive of British newspapers and pamphlets and other printed material from London, greater England, Scotland and the Colonies (India, the U.S., and the Caribbean) covering the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries.
- Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2021Full-text of Financial Times (London) from its first issue. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Tile search.
- Izvestiia Digital Archive, 1917-2010The complete archive of Izvestiia, the Kremlin's newspaper of record. The Izvestiia Digital Archive is full-image with text, allows browsing and is full-text searchable. Also has a Cyrillic virtual keyboard and the ability to search in transliteration.
- (London) Times Digital Archive, 1785-2019Full-image online archive of every page published by The Times (London) from 1785-2019. Does not include the Sunday Times or TLS. For more recent coverage, use our Journal Title search.
- Naver News LibraryNaver News Library is a Korean newspaper archive database.
- Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-presentFull-text full-image access to the Russian newspaper, Pravda. Searching can be done with cyrillic-enabled keyboards, the databases' virtual cyrillic keyboard, or with transliteration.
- South China Morning Post, 1903-2001 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Full text of the paper; for more current contest, search using our Journal Titles search.
- Times of India, 1838-2010 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Searches the full text of the Times of India and its preceding titles, the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce and the Bombay Times and Standard. For more current content of the Times, use our Journal Title search.
- World News Connection ArchiveTranslations of international news sources, including newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, etc that were compiled from the CIA's JPRS and and FBIS programs. Covers 1995-2013.
