Finding Newspaper Articles
Do you need to find recent newspaper articles?
Do you need to find older newspaper articles?
- Historical Newspapers in Online Full-text Format
- Newspapers in Microform Format
- Historical Ohio Newspapers
Ethnic Press/Alternative Press
To find articles from newspapers aimed at specific audiences try these online databases:
- Ethnic NewsWatch (1960-present)
- GenderWatch (1970-present)
- Alternative Press Index and Archive (AltPressIndexCombined ; 1969-1990)
- Alternative Press Index (EBSCOhost ; 1991-present)
- Alternative Press Index (print index ; 1969-1997)
- Hate in America
- African American NewspapersExplore African American history, culture and daily life in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- American Indian NewspapersFrom historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
- Illustrated London News Digital Archive, 1842-2003The Illustrated London News is the world’s first and perhaps most celebrated illustrated newspaper. The fact that the rise of the Illustrated London News coincided with the expansion of the British Empire throughout the non-Western world gives it added relevance and historical significance.
- World Newspaper Archive, African Newspapers Series 1 (1800-1922)Searchable online collection of digitized historical Sub-Saharan African newspapers in English and foreign-language titles published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
African American Newspapers
We have long runs of two major African American newspapers:
- Online Chicago Defender: (1909-1921) (1921- 1967) (1956-1960; Daily Defender) (1960-1973; Chicago Daily Defender) (1968-1973; Chicago Daily Defender) (1973-1975) (1989 to present; included in Ethnic Newswatch database).
- Current printed issues for the past month only are in the Current Periodicals area on the 4th floor of Alden Library.
- Online Pittsburgh Courier: (1911-1950) (1950-1954; Courier) (1955-1956) (1966-1981) (1981-2002; New Pittsburgh Courier) (1991 to the present; included in Ethnic Newswatch database)
- Current printed issues for the past month only are in the Current Periodicals area on the 4th floor of Alden Library.
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)".
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
Athens Newspaper
Afro American Affairs (on microfilm, but online in our Digital Archives) search: afro-american newspaper
Ohio Newspapers
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.
- The Advocate (1914-1924), Cleveland, OH: 1915-1920
- The Afro-American (1882-?), Cincinnati, OH: 1885
- The Forum (1913-1949?), Dayton, OH: 1918-1919
- The Gazette (1883-1945?), Cleveland, OH: 1883-1904/li>
- The Informer (1897-1924, 1925-????), Urbana and Springfield, OH: 1902-1920
- The Journal (1903-1913?), Cleveland, OH: 1903-1910
- The Ohio State Monitor (1918-1922?), Columbus, OH: 1918-1920
- The Palladium of Liberty (1843-1844), Columbus, OH: 1843-1844
- The Tattler (1890-1891), Dayton, OH: 1890
- The Union (1907-1952), Cincinnati, OH: 1918-1923
Other Collections
- Historical African American Newspapers Available Online— guide at the Marist College website
- List of African American newspapers from the Chronicling America website— guide at the College of William and Mary website
- Newspapers and Periodicals at the Schomburg Center — The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture located in Harlem, New York, is a research unit of The New York Public Library system. The website has a vast wealth of resources on African American history.