Historical Newspapers - Open Access and Subscription Based
This guide provides direction to and suggestions for freely accessible digitized Historical Newspapers. Links to UNI Only Newspaper Databases - which can be accessed by community members who visit Rod Library - are included.
Contains papers from many small towns and mid-sized cities across the country. Coverage varies tremendously by year and location. Use the "Advanced Search" option to limit by date and geographic location.
Article and full-page access to the following papers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2010), Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Michigan Chronicle (Detroit) (1939-2010), and the New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993). To search results from just on of these newspapers type the name of the desired newspaper in the first search blank and your search terms (topics) in the remaining search blanks.
(Note - this is NOT the London Times)
Consider using "Advanced Search"
Advanced Search dropdown-menu search options include:
Document Title (article titles), Subject, and for particularly hard-to-find topics "Entire Document"