Subject Guides: News Research: Historical National & International News

Historical Newspapers Available through Fogler Databases

British Library Newspapers (Nineteenth Century)
Full runs of national, regional and local 19th century British newspapers
Burney Newspapers Collection (17th-18th Century)
Full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817)--the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
Includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; advertisements and illustrations included.
British Library Newspapers, 1732-1950
Features sources such as the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Leeds Intelligence, Evening Telegraph, Yorkshire Gazette, Nottingham Evening Post, Newcastle Guardian and Tyne Mercury.
New York Times Historical
Offers searchable full text, with full page and article images (PDF). Includes articles, reviews, advertisements, comics, photos, maps and graphics, editorials, letters, and obituaries.

The Personal Name Index to the New York Times (a print index) covers 1851-1974 and has a follow-up supplement that covers 1975-1989.

Newspapers.com
Access to more than 10,000 U.S. and worldwide historical newspapers in full or partial runs from the 1600s to the 2010s. Useful for genealogy and historical content. Can browse by location.
Times Digital Archive
The Times (London) Digital Archive (1785 - 2024) offers searchable full text, with full page and article facsimiles (PDF) from the newspaper. This resource includes articles, reviews, advertising and classified ads, photos, maps and graphics, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries and birth and death notices. Does not include the Sunday edition.

Historical Newspaper Databases on the Open Web

British Newspaper Archive
Includes a growing number of historical papers, browseable and searchable by title, date, or place of publication. Freely available online.
Chronicling America
Growing collection of historic newspaper pages from 46 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, published between 1789 and 1963.
Cleveland Jewish News Archives
Contains the entire run of the Cleveland Jewish News, an independent community newspaper continuously published weekly since October 30, 1964.
Europeana
Headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to 1996. Searchable and browseable.
Foreign Newspaper Collections at the Library of Congress
Descriptions of collections and links to guides by region.
Gallica
Historical French newspapers freely available from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France digital library. Search by title; coverage varies.
Google News Archive
A disparate collection of newspapers digitized by Google. Some titles only include one or two issues while others have a much wider range of dates. Includes international newspapers.
International Coalition on Newspapers
This page highlights and links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers. The focus is primarily on digital conversion efforts, not full-text collections of current news sources.
Newspapers from New Zealand
Searchable database of New Zealand newspapers, from 1839-1950.
Savannah Historical Newspapers
Online access to seventeen newspaper titles published in Savannah from 1809 to 1880.

Historical News Magazines

Life Magazine
Microfilm version. Life has an online archive of issues from 1936-1972 here .
Time Magazine
Microfilm version. Time has an online archive here where you can browse by year back to 1923.
Vogue Archive
Vogue began as a weekly newspaper before becoming the fashion and lifestyle magazine of today. Searchable archive includes full cover images back to 1892.
Atlantic Monthly
Periodical stacks. Pre-1935 issues must be requested from the Annex.
The Nation
Dates back to 1865.
Newsweek
Dates back to1933.
Harper's
Online access 1857-1876
1850 - 1935 in the Annex (request through Circulation); 1936 - 2022 in the stacks.
American Periodicals
Includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure's.