Newspaper Archives, Indexes and Morgues
- Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues (Library of Congress)A portal maintained by the LOC newspaper and current periodical reading room. Includes Archive sources on the web, US newspapers and newspaper morgues.
- List of Online Newspaper Archives (Wikipedia)Includes U.S. and international newspapers (19th and 20th century).
International Newspaper Archives
- International Newspaper Archives (Library of Congress)Selective list of historical and archived newspapers from around the world.
Urban Archives @ Temple
- Urban Archives @ Temple UniversityThe Urban Archives documents the social, economic, and physical development of the Philadelphia area from the mid-19th century to the present. The Archives collections are particularly strong in areas involving social service organizations, unions, housing development, community organizations, and contain many records from organizations involved with African Americans, education, and crime.
Newspaper Archives for 19th, 20th and 21st century
- Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowCover-to-cover full-text contents for hundreds of 19th century U.S. papers, 1800-1899.
- African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Newspaper coverage of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new windowDigitized versions (usually from microfilm copies) of newspapers from most American states, some with many issues and some with only a few.
- Google News ArchiveFree access to newspapers digitized by Google, including many historical papers. May not be full runs.
- New York Times (Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowA full-image archive that includes the entire historical run of The New York Times, since 1851.The database delivers every page of every issue from cover to cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF.
20th/ 21st Century Newspapers
Content of these newspaper databases begins around the 1980's. Varies by newspaper.
- America's Newspapers This link opens in a new windowContains the full text content of over 650 U.S. newspapers.
- NexisUni This link opens in a new windowDatabase from LexisNexis® featuring more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Primarily in English but some foreign language news as well.
Media Archives
Need to find a historical television, film, or radio program? Try searching in these sources.
- American History in Video This link opens in a new windowMore than video: a collection of newsreels, archives, public affairs footage, and documentaries, both commercial and government sponsored.
- British Pathe ArchivesContains audio clips of news, sports, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970s. Still frames or "storyboards of clips" are free, but registration is required for the free previews.
- CBC Digital ArchivesContains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
- Life Photo Archive Via GoogleSearch millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
- Moving Image Research CollectionMoving Image Research Collections (MIRC) strives to preserve our global moving image heritage, diversify understandings of moving image culture, and envision a better future by encouraging new interpretations of the recent past. MIRC began in 1980 with the gift of the Fox Movietone News Collection.
- National Public Broadcasting and Library of American BroadcastingThe University of Maryland's Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture holds a wide-ranging collection of resources documenting the history of radio and television broadcasting. Important collections include the National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) and the Library of American Broadcasting (LAB).
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveContains individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
- Internet Archive: TV NewsCreated by the Internet Archive this project brings together over 577,000 news broadcasts of various origins since 2009. Useful to students of communications, media, and related fields. Visitors can search all of the captions from each program on the homepage or look at the Recent Extracted Topics word cloud.