Library Guides: Journalism and Communication: News and Media Archives

Newspaper Archives for 19th, 20th and 21st century

Google News Archive
Free 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 window
Can be a useful place to look for coverage of 19th and 20th Century events. The database covers from 1851 to 2010.
Covers Sept. 18, 1851 to 3 years before the current year
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
This collection of primary source newspaper materials searches cover-to-cover of the full-text contents for hundreds of 19th century U.S. papers. Coverage dates vary by title.
Dates vary for individual newspapers, however the entire database covers 1800-1899
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes the following newspapers: Christian Recorder, Colored American, Freedom's Journal, Frederick Douglass Paper, Douglass Monthly, National Era, North Star, Provincial Freeman
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
Produced by the Library of Congress, covers 1836 - 1922

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 (Library of Congress)
Selective list of historical and archived newspapers from around the world.

Urban Archives @ Temple University
The 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.
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contains 7 million news clippings from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin as well as local TV newsreel footage from KYW and WPVI.

Need to find a historical televsion or radio program? Try searching in these sources.

British Pathe Archives
Contains 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 Archives
Contains a selection of radio and television clips from the Archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
National Public Broadcasting and Library of American Broadcasting
The 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).
Moving Image Research Collection
Moving 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.
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Since then, archival holdings have increased to an estimated 6000 hours of material, including local television news and commercials, home movies, micro-cinematographic nature films, and fiction and documentary films from the People's Republic of China.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Contains individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks, including ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.

Internet Archive: TV News
Created 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.