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Do you need to find older newspaper articles?
Ethnic Press/Alternative Press
To find articles from newspapers aimed at specific audiences try these online databases:
We have long runs of two major African American newspapers:
You can choose to search across ALL HISTORICAL dates for most publications. Once in the newspaper (via Proquest search), click on Databases (31) link. Scroll down, find the paper "ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909 - 1975)".
Afro American Affairs (on microfilm, but online in our Digital Archives) search: afro-american newspaper
The links below go to the website of the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus. Each entry provides a brief description of the history of the paper and the microfilm holdings at the Ohio Historical Society. Selected images and pages are available online.
The newspapers listed in this section and the one below are typically not "searchable." To locate a story you will first need to know the approximate date of the event, and then browse through the available issues until you find coverage of the story.