U.S. News

Access.NewspaperArchive.com is a database of mainly English-language historical newspapers starting from 1607 and going to the present.  The database consists of digital images of original newspaper pages scanned from microfilm, which have been processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to permit searching by keyword.  The quality of the scanned images, and hence the accuracy of the keyword searching, varies widely.

The largest number of holdings is from 1880-2010 and is mainly from the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland, although there are some newspapers from other countries in other languages.  More information about the holdings is at http://newspaperarchive.com/.  

Please note:  The holdings will list broad ranges of dates but NewspaperArchive.com does not necessarily contain all the issues in that time period.  For instance, it lists the holding for Chicago’s News Journal as 1923-1977, yet has no issues from 1929 to 1968.  Use the Browse tab to find more precise holdings information for specific titles.

To limit results to a particular state in America, you must first choose the United States as a country, and then the state you would like to search.

Current news, polls and predictions covering the United States Congress and the President. Includes the Almanac of American Politics, which profiles of current members of Congress and other elected officials.  National Journal Subscriber also includes: National Journal Magazine, National Journal Daily, National Journal Hotline, Daybook, and columns such as The Cook Report.

The Detroit Free Press published its first edition before Michigan entered statehood and when wild animals outnumbered the people living in the city. Its editor assigned a writer to walk the waterfront and record the shipping news each day, creating the first news “beat.” The Free Press also was the first U.S. newspaper to print a regular Sunday edition and the first to publish court testimony. It sent reporters to Civil War battlefields to describe the action, set up a Washington bureau to report on politics, and was the first American newspaper published in Europe when it began a London edition in 1881.

The Detroit Free Press witnessed the arrival of former slaves and the influx of Polish, German, Irish, and Italian immigrants to Michigan. It watched the mining and timber industries bring industry and wealth to the state. The publication witnessed the birth of the automotive industry and products such as Vernors Ginger Ale and Faygo pop. And, it followed Detroit Tiger’s baseball player Ty Cobb as he set record after record.

Browseable access to scanned images of print editions of six U.S. newspapers from 2008 up to a few months ago:  Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, and New York Times.  Every page can be viewed online, downloaded in PDF, or printed out.  But as with traditional microfilm, issues and pages can only be flipped through in chronological and numerical order--the interface does not provide any way to search by words included in the articles.  Includes all photos, illustrations, advertisements, etc. that are not included in recent years of other searchable, but text-only versions of these newspapers in other databases like LexisNexis Academic and ProQuest.

Important technical note:  On Apple computers, PQDM works only with the Google Chrome web browser; it does not work with either Safari or FireFox on Macs.  On Windows PCs, it works with FireFox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8; but it may not work with other versions of IE.

A supplement to ProQuest Newsstand providing separate access to 85 full-text newspapers from 30 U.S. states, and 7 U.S. military newspapers, published by Gannett Co. Inc.  Includes five Michigan newspapers:  Detroit Free Press, Lansing State Journal, Battle Creek Enquirer, Port Huron Times Herald, and Livingston County Daily Press & Argus.  Also includes assorted other U.S. newspapers, such as Cincinnati Enquirer, Louisville Courier-Journal, Des Moines Register, Honolulu Advertiser, Indianapolis Star, Pacific Daily News (Guam), Reno Gazette-Journal, Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle, Tallahassee Democrat, The Tennessean (Nashville), and Tuscon Citizen.

Full text of issues from recent decades of 1,300+ English-language newspapers from across the U.S. and around the world, including Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Jerusalem Post, Los Angeles Times, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and many others.

Note:  Access to 85 additional U.S. newspapers, including The Detroit Free Press, is available in ProQuest's separate Gannett Newsstand database, and in ProQuest News & Current Events, which combines access to ProQuest Newsstand, Gannett Newsstand, and all other ProQuest news databases, both current and historical.

Combined access to all ProQuest news source databases, including ProQuest Newsstand, Gannett Newsstand, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers, as well as ABI/INFORM Dateline, Alt-Press Watch, American Periodicals, and Ethnic NewsWatch.  Includes full text of thousands of newspapers, dozens of news wire services, and many news-oriented magazines and periodicals, from the past up to the present.  Includes both major and smaller English-language newspapers from around the world and across the U.S., as well as selected newspapers in Spanish, French, German, and other languages.

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.

Full-text searchable access to the complete backfile of New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), a major African American community newspaper.  Includes original page images digitized from microfilm.