A free Internet Archive service,TV News Search searches the closed captions of news programs collected since 2009 from national U.S. networks and stations, and then allows viewing of the associated news clips. Special collections on popular topics, visualizations of top news searches, fact checks, and trending stories are also included.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring top newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.
NEW! Registration required! Please click on the database link for instructions on registering for or reactivating your AU-sponsored account.
Once your account is activated, sign in on https://www.wsj.com/ to access.
Full access to the Wall Street Journal, with global coverage of business and financial news, in addition to national and international news. Includes English, Chinese, and Japanese editions.
Full access to Washington DC's daily Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper featuring local, national and international news.
Registration required! Follow these instructions to register for or troubleshoot your AU-sponsored account.
Once your account is verified and subscription connected to AU's organization, sign in at https://www.washingtonpost.com to access.
The Atlantic is a news magazine with coverage that spans current affairs, politics, science, literature, technology, culture, and the economy.
Coverage: 1857-present.
** Access limited to current AU students, faculty, and staff. **
When visiting https://www.theatlantic.com/ from the open web or in the app, click the ‘Sign in’ button, select 'Sign in through your institution' (it's at the bottom of the box), then search for American University.
An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas. Includes Company Dossier content.
First time users: Follow the instructions in the library's account registration guide.
Access to the website of the New York Times - one of the world's leading newspapers.
Includes access to the New York Times inEducation curated reading lists.
Click the Log In button and sign in to access full news content 1981-present.
Can't log in to your account? Visit the account registration page again and click the link labeled 'Already have an account? Log in'
Primary source material from 18th and 19th Century publications, including The Liberator 1831-1865, Godey`s Lady`s Book 1830-1889, The Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers: The 19th Century, American County Histories to 1900, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue, The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record, and The South Carolina Gazette, and more.
The library's subscription to the Complete Collection of Historical American Newspapers, Books and Journals includes:
African American Newspapers
African American Newspapers in the South
American County Histories
American Inventor
Anatomy of Protest in America
Frank Leslie’s Weekly
Godey’s Lady’s Book
History of Woman Suffrage
National Anti-Slavery Standard
Native Americans in History
Quarantine and Disease Control
Reconstruction of Southern States
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
South Carolina Newspapers
The Civil War Collection
The Liberator
The Pennsylvania Gazette
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue
The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record
The Virginia Gazette
The Woman’s Tribune
Twelve Years A Slave
Women’s Suffrage
World War I Military Camp Newspapers
and additional Open Access materials
Founded in 1875, al-Ahram was nationalized and became Egypt's newspaper of record in 1960.
Coverage from 1875-2024.
Full text access to the historical American newspapers The American Hebrew (1879-1902 and 1922), The Jewish Messenger (1857 to 1902) and the combined The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1903 to 1922).
This three part collection includes News Features & internal communications from 1848-2000, Washington, D.C. Bureau records from 1938-2009, and U.S. City Bureaus from 1931-2004).
This resource was initially purchased thanks to a donation from the Samuel & Lucy Keker Endowed Library Fund. 
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports are U.S. government transcriptions and translations of radio broadcasts from foreign countries. Annexes comprise an additional 7,000 transcripts to the Daily Reports. The modern successor to the FBIS Daily Reports is the World News Connection.
An Israeli newspaper providing English language news from Israel and the Middle East.
Access to the Los Angeles times from 1881 through 2012.
Access to the New York Times from 1851 to 2017.
The digitized version of the complete Wall Street Journal, with global coverage of business and financial news, starting from 1889. Coverage through 2011. For more recent and current coverage, please find the Wall Street Journal in our list of databases.
Access to the Washington Post from 1877 through 2007.
A collection of digitized newspapers from Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The papers are in English or other European languages.
A collection of digitized newspapers from India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Papers are mostly in English with a few in Bengali and one in Gujarati.