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35 Databases Found for:Newspapers

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Funded by UW System
Alternate Name(s):Newsbank

Database with global, national, and regional news, featuring newspapers, newswires, magazines, and video in English and many other languages.

Search 270 historical newspapers published for African American communities between 1827-1998. 

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Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society, and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience.

Search 170+ periodicals written by and about African Americans. Published from 1825-1995, the publications include academic and political journals, magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports, and other genres. 

America's Historical Newspapers
Provided by UW-Madison
Provided by UW-Madison
Alternate Name(s):Early American Newspapers

Primary source newspapers published from 1728 to the late 1990s. Includes thousands of titles from all 50 states.
 

The most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1684 and 1912.

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You can search each series separately as well as together: Series 1 (1684-1820), Series 2 (1821-1837), Series 3 (1838-1852), Series 4 (1853-1865), and Series 5 (1866-1912).

Funding provided by the Russell Moratz Estate.

Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Full-text access to weekly and daily newspapers in Wisconsin from 2005 to 90 days ago. 

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BadgerLink
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Available to all Wisconsin residents, a directory of educational, children's, and government sites, online newspapers and magazines, and a variety of databases.

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BadgerLink is a program supported and funded through the Department of Public Instruction - Division of Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide increased access to information for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's library community.

Provided by UW-Madison

British historical newspapers published from 1800-1913. Includes modern specially-commissioned essays and contextual materials to help non-specialist users with perspective & analysis. 

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It can also be searched using the Gale Primary Sources and Newsvault databases.

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Full page and article images with searchable full text from 1849 to 24 years ago. 

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More than 3,000 books, pamphlets, and other sources documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century.

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The collection is particularly strong in literature, women's history, native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada.

Newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, covering 1982-present.

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Part of Access World News subscription.

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Alternate Name(s):Infotrac Newsstand

Access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields.

Search across a variety of Gale databases including Academic OneFile, Business Collection, Opposing Viewpoints in Context, and various InfoTrac collections.

A tool that searches across many of Gale's databases containing British and American historical newspapers and other periodicals. 
 

Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government, and special reports that focus on how gender affects a broad array of subject areas.

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Its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, is a repository of historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.

News & magazine articles across a wide range of general interest topics.

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History Commons
Provided by UW-Madison
Provided by UW-Madison
Alternate Name(s):Accessible Archives

Primary source material from 18th & 19th century magazines and books, including eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of everyday life, editorial observations, advertisements, and genealogical records.

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MAS Complete
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this provides full text for hundreds of popular general interest and current events publications, as far back as 1975 for key magazines.

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Full-text, individual articles from print and online editions (online edition since 1996). Does not include images, multimedia presentations, or data visualizations.

Full page and individual article images with searchable full text from 1851-5 years ago 

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Newspaper Source Plus
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Selected full text for over 1,520 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and television and radio news transcripts.

NewspaperARCHIVE
Provided by UW System
Provided by UW System
Alternate Name(s):Access NewspaperARCHIVE

Full page and individual articles from historic newspapers from Wisconsin. 

Provided by Badgerlink

Regional, local, and state newspapers from the 1700s-2000s. Includes 150 Wisconsin-specific titles including the Janesville Daily Gazette, the Racine Daily Herald, the Eau Claire Leader, and many more.

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From the United States and other countries.

Searches across several databases containing historical newspapers from 1600-1980s, including the Times (London) Digital Archive.

Provided by UW-Madison

Full text pages and individual articles for hundreds of 19th-century U.S. historical newspapers. 

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Regional Business News
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Regional business magazines, newspapers, and wires from Canada and all metropolitan and rural areas in the United States.

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Primary Source alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals produced during the latter half of the 20th century. Includes 3 main collections with many sub-collections: American Prison Newspapers, Independent Voices, and Student Activism.

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Student run newspaper for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater documenting campus milestones, social and cultural changes, and the general history of the institution and surrounding community.

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Provided by UW-Madison

17th- and 18th-century English newspapers and news pamphlets. Mostly from London, some from Ireland, Scotland, and English colonies.

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The 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers can also be searched using Gale Primary Sources and NewsVault.

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Times (London) Digital Archive
Provided by UW-Madison
Provided by UW-Madison

Over 200 years of the world's "newspaper of record."

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The Times (London) Digital Archive can also be searched using Gale Primary Sources.

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US Newsstream
Provided by Badgerlink
Provided by Badgerlink

Current and archival to 1980s U.S. news featuring key national and regional sources including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

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Full-text, individual articles from print and online editions (online edition since 2010). Does not include images, multimedia presentations, or data visualizations.

Full-text, individual articles from print and online editions (online edition since 2016). Does not include images, multimedia presentations, or data visualizations.

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Includes The Whitewater Register, Whitewater Gazette, and Whitewater Press. Years span 1850 to 1969.

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Part of The Community History Archive of the Irving L. Young Memorial Library (the public library for the city of Whitewater, WI)

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