A Research Guide to Newspapers
Historical Collection
Several databases provide access to significant historical newspapers. In addition to electronic access,there is an extensive collection of backfiles on microfilm. Microfilm is located on the 1st Floor of the Hodges Library(Periodicals, Documents, and Microforms section) - Consult the UT Libraries Catalog for the library's holdings of particular titles.
Databases for Historical Newspapers:
- America's Newspapers 1690-1920
- Atlanta Constitution
- Black Studies Center
- Chicago Tribune, Proquest Historical Papers- 1849-1985
- Christian Science Monitor, Proquest Historical Newspapers 1908-1993
- Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
- Pennsylvania Gazette Folios 1, 2, 3 (CD-ROM - Reference Room only)
- New York Times, Historical Newspapers
- NewsBank Special Reports
- Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
- Washington Post, Proquest Historical Newspapers 1877-1990
This online collection provides images and full text content access historic newspapers published in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. More than 1300 titles from all 50 states.
The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1929) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Contains a back file of Black Newspapers, including the Chicago Defender (1956- 1975).
Offers full page and article coverage. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Offers full page and article coverage. Includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Full text of Civil war newspapers (The NY Hearld,The Charleston Mercury,and Richmon Enquier). After log-in,click the Civil war box to select database for searching.
This is a newspaper published in Philadelphia from 1728-1815 and edited by Benjamin Franklin. Full-text for important colonial newspaper. UTK has Folios 1-3, covering 1728-1783. Check with Reference Desk for help.
Digitally scanned full-text backfiles of the New York Times. Searchable fields include document types such as obituaries, birth notices, marriage, classified ads, editorials, illustrations, and reviews.
Collection of special reports, on the left side of the menu, about various issues of interest.
Digitized edition of The Times (London), the "world's newspaper of record:; Full-text of the newspaper is searchable; may also browse issues page by page.
Offers full page and article images with searchable back files back to the first issues. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Additional Historical Papers:
- Early American Newspapers
- Chronicling Historic American Newspapers
- Civil War Newspapers
- Historical Newspapers
- Newspapers at the Center for Research Libraries
The Hodges Library has a significant collection of U.S. newspapers from the late 18th century and early 19th century. These papers can be found by searching the series name, Early American Newspapers, or by title in our online catalog.
Selected newspapers from 1900-1910. Information about newspapers from 1690-current.
Search newspapers by specific title. Most titles are in microform:
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A selected list of historical newspapers arranged by state and then city:
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The Center for Research Libraries in Chicago has collections of foreign newspapers as well as U.S. and ethnic newspapers. These may be requested using our Interlibrary Loan Services.
