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Historical New York Times (ProQuest) [Details]: The New York Times is a unique full-image archive that brings you the entire historical run of The New York Times, in-depth coverage of science and politics. It offers complete coverage from 1851 to t ... more information
America’s Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 (Readex) [Details]: A digital collection of early American newspapers from 1690 to 1922, that includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1860-1920.
Philadelphia Inquirer [Details]: Contains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and ... more information
Lexis Nexis Academic [Details]: Link to the Business Tab and search Company Dossier for key information on public and private companies.
The Times Archives 1785-1985 [Details]: The Times is the "world's newspaper of record" and covers all major international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, ... more information
The Current Digest of the (Post-)Soviet Press [Details]: CDPSP is a comprehensive retrospective digest of the news presented to the Soviet and Russian public for more than a half-century, from the beginnings of the Cold War through the emergence of Russia i ... more information
American Periodicals Series - APS Online (ProQuest) [Details]: Search a selection of periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazi ... more information
British Periodicals Collection I (ProQuest) [Details]: The database consists of more than 160 journals spanning the late 17th through early 20th centuries, and covering a range of topics such as literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and ... more information

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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century [Details]: Includes the complete text of major 19th century African-American newspapers. Also included are early biographies, essays and editorials and vital statistics in 8 works such as Freedman's Journal (182 ... more information
Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective [Details]: Contains full-text of more than 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. Contains news articles, eye-witness and ... more information
Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 [Details]: Full-text transcription and digitized image of the actual newspaper page as it originally appeared.
Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County 1819-1870 [Details]: Full-text transcriptions from 6 nineteenth century Delaware County newspapers.
Poole's Plus: Index to Periodical Literature & Supplements [Details]: A web edition of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature, 1802-1906, covering 479 American and English periodicals of the 19th century. The database has integrated essential date and title information ... more information
Readers’ Guide Retrospective (Wilson) [Details]: Provides citations to the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Virginia Gazette [Details]: The Virginia Gazette was published weekly in Williamsburg from 1736-1780. The news covered all Virginia and included some information for other colonies, Scotland, England etc. Not all the issues sur ... more information