Links for Historical Research

Links for Historical Research – for Secondary Sources

Links for Reference Works – For Initial Research 

Major News Archives

Single-Paper Archives

Multiple-Paper Archives

HISTORICAL NEWS ARCHIVES

CONTEMPORARY NEWS ARCHIVE

  • Newspapers Expanded (Proquest Newspapers, from COW database): the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites
  • Newsstand (Proquest, from COW database): 1300 newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers worldwide, with recent backfiles
  • America’s News (Early 1980s – present) (NewsBank, from COW database): full-text newspapers articles from 2004+ sources from 53 states and territories

CONTENT-SPECIFIC ARCHIVES

  • The African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
  • African-American Newspapers, Series I (1827-1998) (NewsBank, from COW database): Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement, etc.
  • Columbus News Index: news articles covering people, places, and events in Franklin County and its surrounding counties. The index includes abstracts only of selected articles from 1960-1997 and obituaries from 1932-1997
  • Independent Voices: alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century
  • Black Studies Center (Proquest, from COW database): full-text backfile of the influential black newspapers
  • Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest, from COW database): journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses
  • Readers’ Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) (EBSCOhost, from COW database): popular and general-interest magazines published in the United States
  • Women’s Magazine Archive (Proquest) (late 19th century – 2005): full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines.

INTERNATIONAL NEWS ARCHIVES

  • Global Newsstream (ProQuest, from COW database): the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, news wires, and news sites
  • World News Connection (Eastview) (from COW database): news from around the world, translated into English, obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports
  • The Handwritten Newspapers Project (59 BC-AD 2011): bibliographical data, images, resource links, and research notes for hundreds of rare manuscript publications produced under extraordinary conditions in remarkable settings
  • Biafran Database: items from African newspapers, photographs, interviews, archival materials, declassified intelligence reports, thesis, dissertations, etc.
  • The European Library – Newspapers
  • Newspaper Abstracts: newspaper abstracts and extracts from eight countries (United States, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, England, Norway, Wales)

Foreign Language Archives

Photographs and Art 

Broadcast News