"Newspapers are the first rough draft of history."
Who said that first?
In the News & Newspapers Subject Guide (link below) click on the "Historical News" tab.
(To view all Subject Guides go to the library's homepage on the right under RESEARCH and click on Subject Guides)
Historical files of many major newspapers are available through ProQuest databases. Searching all of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers is a bit awkward. Here is the best way we've found:
From the library's homepage under RESEARCH ASSISTANCE, click on Databases. Click on "N" and then click on New York Times - Historical. On the very top left of the screen, you will see a blue bar and a magnifying glass icon. Click on the link "Searching: 1 database." Scroll down to ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Check the papers you would like to include in your search.
Here are your choices as of January 2014:
American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922)
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)
Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)
The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Baltimore Sun, The (1837-1992)
Chicago Defender (1910-1975) (1910 - 1975)
Chicago Tribune (1849-1990)
Los Angeles Times (1881-1990)
New York Times (1851-2009)
Wall Street Journal (1889-1996)
Washington Post (1877-1997)
Searchable database of The Washington Evening Star from 1852 - 1981.
This resource was made possible through the Brown Fund.
Contains full-page images of nearly 500 historic colonial and U.S. newspapers, based on the collection of the American Antiquarian Society.
This 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.
AU Library has hundreds of facsimile volumes of Radical newspapers published from 1881-1961. These and other volumes are shelved in our WRLC storage facilty. They may be requested by using the red REQUEST button on the the WRLC 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.
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 by using the red REQUEST button on the WRLC catalog page.
Here are some sample volumes:
National Era 1847 -1860
National Principia 1859-1861
National Anti-Slavery Standard 1840-1870
A collection of more than 5,700 documentaries and newsreels on American history, each accompanied by a transcript. There are film clippings from as early as 1898. Includes newsreels from United News (1942 to 1946) and Universal (1929 to 1967). Transcripts of all programs provided.
110 films from the California Newsreel (CN) catalog. CN produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, CN is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to combine media production and contemporary social movements. The streaming collection contains such high use titles as Color Adjustment, Ethnic Notions, and Race: The Power of an Illusion.
More than 1,000 ethnographic films with transcripts. The collection covers every region of the world and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides. Transcripts of all programs provided.
An index of U.S. television news broadcasts beginning in 1968. NBC broadcasts from 1968 and CNN broadcasts from 1995 are available for viewing online. ABC and CBS broadcasts from 1968 and Fox News broadcasts from 2004 are available through video loan, for which Vanderbilt University charges a fee to recover costs. There are no transcripts or captioning provided.