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.
Collections provided:
Search 270 historical newspapers published for African American communities between 1827-1998.
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.
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.
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.
Full page and article images with searchable full text from 1849 to 24 years ago.
Some content withheld due to copyright.
Full page and individual article images with searchable full text from 1851-5 years ago
Some content withheld due to copyright
Full text pages and individual articles for hundreds of 19th-century U.S. historical newspapers.
Full-text access to weekly and daily newspapers in Wisconsin from 2005 to 90 days ago.
Full page and individual articles from historic newspapers from Wisconsin.
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.
From the United States and other countries.
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.
Includes The Whitewater Register, Whitewater Gazette, and Whitewater Press. Years span 1850 to 1969.
Part of The Community History Archive of the Irving L. Young Memorial Library (the public library for the city of Whitewater, WI)
British historical newspapers published from 1800-1913. Includes modern specially-commissioned essays and contextual materials to help non-specialist users with perspective & analysis.
It can also be searched using the Gale Primary Sources and Newsvault databases.
Selected full text for over 1,520 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and television and radio news transcripts.
Primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, mostly focused on Europe and Asia.
Collections include Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange, British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture, and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection Archives.
17th- and 18th-century English newspapers and news pamphlets. Mostly from London, some from Ireland, Scotland, and English colonies.
The 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers can also be searched using Gale Primary Sources and NewsVault.
Over 200 years of the world's "newspaper of record."
The Times (London) Digital Archive can also be searched using Gale Primary Sources.