Primary Sources: A Research Guide

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.

Contains magazines, journals, and newspapers which were first published between 1741-1900. Periodicals appear in their original form, with the typeface, illustrations and even the layout unaltered.

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) collection documents the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912. The collection includes 5 series by date and 50 subject subsets, which can be searched separately or together.

Text-only articles. No images.
Search the full run of the Boston Globe from one place. Access is from 1872-present.

CRL holds approximately five million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications, and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching.

Text-only articles. No images.
The New York Times offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851. It does not include the current years three years. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Printing: Use Print to fit option

Ethnic NewsWatch is a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. The database now also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989.

C19 is an indexing tool that allows one to search major indexes of 19th century materials. One can search all indexes at once or select an index(s) to search. The indexes included are those for Books: Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalism; Nineteenth Century Short title catalog; Nineteenth Century microfiche project; those for Periodicals: American Periodicals Series; British Periodicals; Niles Register Index; Palmer’s Index to the Times; Periodicals Index Online; Poole’s Index to Periodical Literature; Stead’s Index to Periodicals; Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals; those for Official Publications: House of Commons Parliamentary Papers; Proceedings of the Old Bailey; U.S. Congressional Serial Set; and Archive Finder