Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Newspapers (Historical)


Accessible Archives ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of primary source material from 18th & 19th century American periodicals and newspapers.

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America's Historical Newspapers - Series I, II, III ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Americas Historical Newspapers features full text cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers published in 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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American Periodicals Series ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals published between 1740 and 1900.

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841 - 1902
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, was one of the most widely read afternoon newspapers in the United States during the Civil War.

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Chicago Defender ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text backfile, from 1935 to 1975, of one of the most widely-read black newspapers in the country (the paper began publishing on a daily basis in 1956).

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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Contains more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.

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Ethnic News Watch Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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Freedom's Journal
Full text of the newspaper Freedom's Journal, which provided international, national, and regional information on current events and contained editorials declaiming slavery, lynching, and other injustices.

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Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The 19th Century British Library Newspapers collection contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain.

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Nineteenth Century Masterfile Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
19th Century Masterfile contains more than 60 core subject indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents, and US and UK government documents covering the early 1700's to 1906.

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Nineteenth Century US Newspapers Digital Archive Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains primary source newspaper content from nearly 250 American newspapers published during the 19th century.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers full-text and full-image articles from the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Pittsburgh Courier, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post, dating back to their first issue (this search also includes the American Periodical Series).

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Russian Newspapers ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers developments throughout Russia by providing the full-text files of the most influential national and regional Russian newspapers.

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Times (London) Digital Archive ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains facsimile images of every issue of the "world’s newspaper of record" – The Times of London – from 1785 through 1985.

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World War I Edition of Stars and Stripes
Full text of the complete seventy-one-week run of the official newspaper of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).

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