Global Women's History (Yale-NUS College): Historical News

Online resources of current and historic newspapers from Singapore and Malaysia, including Straits Times. Coverage is from 1831-2009.

This freely available resource from the Library of Congress contains 6.5 million pages of material from 32 states from 1836-1922. Many of these newspapers are smaller, local periodicals.

This historical newspaper database chronicles the evolution of American culture and daily life from 1690 to 1820 through thousands of newspapers from the United States.

Searchable and browsable facsimiles of the New York Times (1851-2006), the Wall Street Journal (1889-1995), the Chicago Tribune (1849-1989), The Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Washington Post (1877-1996), and Los Angeles Times (1881-1989), The Guardian (1821-2003), The Observer (1791-2003), and The Times of India (1838-2003).

Searchable content from The Economist (1843-2009), The Financial Times (1888-2009), The Sunday Times (1822-2006), The Times (1785-1985) and the Times Literary Supplement (1902-2008).

Portal to newspapers and periodicals (1685-1815) that offers integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas. It brings together rare journals, illuminating all aspects of eighteenth-century social, political and literary life.

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press,” totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden.

Full runs of national, regional and local 19th century British newspapers, taken directly from the extensive holdings of the British Library. The content includes 48 titles, totalling approximately 2.2 million pages, selected to reflect the social and political developments of the times in which they were published.

A catalog of digital historical newspapers, this resource facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. It currently links to over 1,500 full-text newspaper titles.

The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The corpus of this source is large as the copyright of many media industry, fan, and technical publications were not renewed, and those pre-1964 works are now in the public domain. Contains over 800,000 pages of material.

Searches opinion pieces and editorials from across the political spectrum. Full text available from The Nation, Commentary, NACLA, and The New Republic. Also indexes American Spectator, Commonweal, Harper's Magazine, The National Review, and The New York Review of Books.