The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757–1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, which helps chart the development of the concept of news and newspapers and the free press, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden.
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Provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th-century titles.
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Coverage: 1827–1862. A collection of African American newspapers containing a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, rich with firsthand reports of the major events and issues of the day.
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Coverage: 1690–1922. Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. (Formerly called Early American Newspapers, Series I through VII.)
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The US Cities Bureaus collection is a post-World War II collection consisting primarily of wire copy, as well as correspondence and newsletters, covering a broad segment of American political and social history.

The Middle East Bureaus Collection (1967–2005) contains wire copy (original news reports) in both English and Arabic and includes information on conflicts in the area, particularly the Lebanese Civil War (1975–90), the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (The Six Day War), and the U.S. war in Iraq (2003). Additional subjects include Islam, the Persian Gulf War (1991), Kurds, elections, and international relations.
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National, regional and local newspapers in Britain between the 17th and early 20th centuries. Colgate owns parts 1–6.
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The largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region. Featuring more than 140 newspapers from 22 islands, this resource will chronicle the region’s evolution across two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries, and other news items.
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Coverage: 1849–2010. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for Chicago Tribune dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files.
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Coverage: 1779–1963. Provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Most of the content is pre-1923.
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Coverage: 1857–1912. Electronic access to Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th-century illustrated newspaper. Includes the ability to search for a wide variety of articles, ads, illustrations, and fiction.
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With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, sparking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. The publication presented a vivid picture of British and world events—including news of war, disasters, royalty, social affairs, the arts, and science. Containing over 260,000 full-color pages, fully searchable and browsable, the ILN Historical Archive 1842–2003 provides users with unprecedented access to the entire run of this unique historical record.
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Chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s, and 80s through the lens of an independent alternative press. Consolidated for the first time, Independent Voices provides over 1,000 titles from the special collections of dozens of libraries. Independent Voices provides easy access to the powerful voices of feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, gays, lesbians, and more.
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The world’s top English-language daily newspaper covering Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish World. Founded in 1932 by Gershon Agron as the Palestine Post, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration during the Mandate period. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed the Jerusalem Post.
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A collection of American and British papers that represent communism, socialism, and marxism as alternative visions of organizing society. Based in the philosophy of Karl Marx, his critique of political economy, and Marx’s belief in social politics, it addresses issues of the 20th century such as: the working class, labor conditions, unionism, post-World War II McCarthyism, and Nazi crimes against humanity. The collection is made possible in cooperation with the Marxist Internet Archive.
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Coverage: 1881–2010. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the Los Angeles Times dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files.
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The archives cover New York history from 1753–present. Syracuse newspapers from 1809–current are represented. Full PDFs of the newspapers are available.
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Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to over 4,000 historical newspapers dating from the early 1700s to the 2000s. 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.

Coverage: 1851–three years ago. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files.
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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature is the first and only systematic article-level index to the subject matter of 19th-century periodicals.
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Coverage: 1912–present (delay in current issues). The full-image online version of Pravda. Content is in Russian. Full-text searchable.
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The Rand Daily Mail, published daily in Johannesburg, is a critically important title that pioneered popular journalism in South Africa. It is renowned today for being the first newspaper to openly oppose apartheid and contribute to its downfall.
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Coverage: 1785–2012. Search the full-text of the Times (London) Digital Archive. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos.
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Coverage: 1838–2001. The Times of India is the world’s largest circulation English daily newspaper. Titles include Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1839–1859), Bombay Times and Standard (1860–1861), and the Times of India (1861–2001).
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Coverage: 1889–fifteen years ago. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the Wall Street Journal dating back to the 19th century. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue—cover to cover—in downloadable PDF files.
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Includes Collections 1 and 2. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Offers coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922.
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Coverage: 1805–1922. An essential collection of primary sources for the study of Latin American history. Contains newspapers from a wide selection of countries, including several Caribbean newspapers, and includes material in both English and Spanish. Complements World Newspaper Archives - African Newspapers.
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