LibGuides: Sociology: Newspapers

Current Newspapers

US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1980-present. Mainly focused on U.S. Provides access to the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1990-present. Mainly focused on the African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native experiences.
Contents: Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journal Articles; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Magazines
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General research database from LexisNexis containing full text from news, business, and legal sources.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Trade/Professional Articles

Historical and Archival Newspapers

Los Angeles Times Historical (1881-2015) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: Primary source collection from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1880-1994. Los Angeles Times Historical adds one year of content annually.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
New York Times (1851-2019) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General newspaper collection from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1851-2013.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History
Description: Primary source collection from ProQuest containing historical newspapers with articles and images of every page from every issue. Includes materials from 1865-1922. Mainly focused on San Francisco, California. Newspaper archive includes four publications: The Call-Chronicle-Examiner, The Daily Dramatic Chronicle, The Daily Morning Chronicle, and San Francisco Chronicle.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: Newspaper collection from ProQuest containing full text of the oldest and largest black newspaper in the western United States and the largest African-American owned newspaper in the U.S.. Includes materials from 1934-2005.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
HarpWeek This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Women's and Gender Studies, African American Studies
Description: Primary source collection from Alexander Street Press containing full text. Includes materials from 1857-1912.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General primary source collection from Gale Cengage Learning containing full text of The Times (London).
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857-1922) This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History, Sociology, Political Science, Jewish Studies
Description: Primary source collection from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1857-1922. The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City & merged with the Jewish Messenger in 1903. The paper covered many topics of Jewish interest internationally.
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
ProQuest Civil War Era This link opens in a new window
Subjects: History
Description: Primary source collection from ProQuest containing full text. Includes materials from 1820-1880. Includes Boston Herald (1846-65); Charleston Mercury (1840-65); Columbus Gazette (1856-65); Daily Dispatch (1852-65); Daily Ohio State Journal (1841); Daily Picayune (1840-65); Louisville Daily Journal (1840-65); Memphis Daily Appeal (1847-65); New York Herald (1840-65).
Contents: Popular (Non-Scholarly) Articles - Newspapers; Primary Sources
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America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new window
Subjects: MANY
Description: General primary source collection from Readex containing full text. Includes materials from 1639-1819. Mainly focused on the United States. Mostly in English, but contains some material in other European and Native American languages.
Contents: Books; Book Chapters; Primary Sources

More Newspaper Collections

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Explore many of America's historic newspapers, published 1860-1922, and discover more about all American newspapers published 1690 to the present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities external link and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Historical African American Newspaper Collection
This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.