History Resources: Newspapers and Newscasts

Helmke Library has significantly expanded its access to ProQuest's Historical Newspapers collections. In addition to the Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times with Index, and Washington Post, members of the campus community now have access to the following newspapers: ProQuest Civil War Era newspapers, Atlanta Daily World, American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger, American Israelite‎, Arizona Republican‎, Atlanta Constitution, Austin American Statesman‎, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Christian Science Monitor, Communist Historical Newspaper Collection, Globe and Mail‎, Guardian and Observer, Hartford Courant, Irish Times and Weekly Irish Times, Jerusalem Post, Jewish Advocate, Jewish Exponent, Korea Times, Los Angeles Sentinel, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nashville Tennessean, Newsday, New York Amsterdam News, New York Tribune/Herald Tribune, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, San Francisco Chronicle, Scotsman, South China Morning Post, St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay Times, Times of India, Toronto Star, and Wall Street Journal.

A collection of 500 U.S. newspapers from the 19th century. Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.

This collection features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.

Information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This directory can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.

Features credible information from a wide variety of international, national, and local news sources in all subject areas including political science, English, sociology, humanities, business, international studies, current events, science, and more.

Cross-searches Gale’s historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

Meet the Press provides over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

This resource consists of two major collections from the British Library which span three hundred years of newspaper publishing in the U.K.

With its debut in 1842 the Illustrated London News became the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper. Provides access to the entire run of this unique historical record.

Contains every issue of the pioneering British photojournalism newspaper Picture Post (1938-1957). Features photographs from many extraordinarily talented photographers, all digitized from originals in full colour.

Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times of London newspaper,

The complete online fully-searchable edition of the TLS from the first edition in 1902 onwards. This is the essential companion for studying and researching literary activity and critical opinion makers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The collection captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. Key collections include: Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time.

Cross-searches Gale’s historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

Provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 information resources including newspapers, news magazines, wire services, and transcripts of major radio and TV broadcasts.

This newspaper index provides a 90-day archive of approximately 290 newspapers from the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Provides access to full-text articles in the Christian Science Monitor (1990 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), New York Times (Late ed. East Coast 1980 to present), New York Times Book Review (1997 to present), New York Times Magazine (1997 to present), Wall Street Journal (Eastern ed.) (1984 to present), and Washington Post (1996 to present).

Full-text access to the New York Times from 1980 to present. Browse the newspaper cover to cover and search for articles by topic, date, or article type. Articles are plain text only with no images. Supplements, including the New York Times Book Review (1997-present) and New York Times Magazine (1997-present) are also present.

Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selective full text for more than 300 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.

Incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.