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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).

Content of these newspaper databases begins around the 1980's. Varies by newspaper.

America's Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Contains the full text content of over 650 U.S. newspapers.
Can be searched individually or as multiple titles. Interface is capable of searching the full-text, or limiting to headline, date, author, topic or section of the article record. The papers are updated daily, however the archive depth varies by newspaper.
NexisUni This link opens in a new window
Database 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.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover full-text contents for hundreds of 19th century U.S. papers, 1800-1899.
Dates vary for individual newspapers, however the entire database covers 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 window
Digitized versions (usually from microfilm copies) of newspapers from most American states, some with many issues and some with only a few.
Produced by the Library of Congress, covers 1836 - 1922
New York Times (Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
A 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.
Covers Sept. 18, 1851 to 3 years before the current year

Google News Archive
Free access to newspapers digitized by Google, including many historical papers. May not be full runs.

Need to find a historical television 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.

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

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.

American History in Video This link opens in a new window
More than video: a collection of newsreels, archives, public affairs footage, and documentaries, both commercial and government sponsored.