Scans of African-American newspapers from the 19th century, including statistics, biographies, essays, poetry, advertisements, and other cultural artifacts.
This database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Coverage includes: The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
Searchable scans of local and regional newspapers from the United States.
Fondren has access to the following collections:
- Early American Newspapers Series 1-8, 1690-1922
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876
Searchable text and images from 18th-20th century regional and local British newspapers, collected by the British Library.
Rice University owns access to the following modules:
- Part I: 1800-1900 (national and regional papers)
- Part II:1800-1900 (local newspapers)
- Part III: 1741-1950 (national and regional papers)
- Part IV: 1732-1950 (local newspapers)
- Part V: 1746-1950 (northern regional newspapers)
- Part VI: 1783-1950 (Ireland).
Text and images from newspapers published in the late 17th-early 20th centuries in the United States.
Fondren Library provides access to the following series:
- Series 1: From Colonies to Nation
- Series 2: The New Republic
- Series 3: From Farm to City
- Series 4: The Rise of Industry
- Series 5: An Emerging World Power
- Series 6: Compromise and Disunion
- Series 7: Reform and Retrenchment
- Series 8: A Nation in Transition.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791-2003) provide facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past 200 years. The Guardian and The Observer have been digitized from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in PDF format.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The historical archive of the Illustrated London News is the full facsimile run of the illustrated newspaper from 1842 to 2003 with over 260,000 pages in full-color imaging, including specials and presentation pieces.
This database "provides access to a wealth of primary source newspaper content, featuring articles, advertisements, editorials, and images from numerous titles deriving out of many regions throughout the United States (Gale)."
"The collection encompasses the entire nineteenth century with an emphasis on topics that provide a window into pivotal events and daily life, such as the American Civil War, African American culture and history, western migration, Antebellum-era life, and other major topics (Gale)."
RetroNews provides access to the National Library of France's press archives from 1631 to 1950 with 15 million digitized articles. NOTE: You must create an account to get full access.
"Despite the similarity of names, The Sunday Times was an entirely separate paper from The Times until 1st January 1967, when both papers came under the common ownership of Times Newspapers Ltd. To this day, The Sunday Times remains editorially independent from The Times, with its own remit and perspective on the news. In more than 600,000 pages, The Sunday Times Digital Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years (Gale)."
"This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context (Gale)." Fondren owns access to the Times Digital Archive 1785-1986, 1987-2013 and 2015-2019. Current issues of The Times Digital Archive are available from Nexis Uni and Newspaper Source under JN "Times, The (United Kingdom)" and are also searchable in Gale NewsVault.