Subject Guides: Newspapers at Auburn Libraries: Newspaper Sources

Current News for Alabama

al.com al.com is the online home of The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and Mobile's Press-Register.
Alabama Newspapers at Auburn
Birmingham news (Online)
1993 to present in Access World News Research Collection
Opelika-Auburn news (Online)
2008 to present in Access World News Research Collection

Alabama Historic News

Alabama Hardbound Newspapers Database
Alabama Newspapers on Microfilm Database
Alabama Online Historical Newspapers
Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers "In honor of the Civil War and Reconstruction sesquicentennials the Alabama Department of Archives and History undertook a project to make all of its newspapers from that era available online. These issues have been digitized from microfilm. The quality varies greatly, depending on the condition of the original paper and the film; therefore, some portions of the text may be illegible or difficult to read."
Birmingham Newspapers (1874-1901)
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1. Birmingham Iron Age (1874-1885)
2. Weekly Iron Age (1884-1887)
3. Weekly Age (1888-1899)
4. Pratt City Herald (1899-1901)
Obituary Index: Birmingham Area Newspapers
Florence Times (1890-2007)
Jacksonville Republican (1837-1895)

Auburn University Newspapers

The Auburn Plainsman
Plainsman (1922-1992)
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The Plainsman has been the student newspaper for Alabama Polytechnic Institute/Auburn University since 1922. Now called The Auburn Plainsman, the newspaper has used both names during its history.
Orange and Blue (1894-1922)
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The Orange and Blue was the student newspaper for the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama/Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) from 1893 through 1922. For part of this time, the Orange and Blue was published as a monthly magazine rather than as a weekly or bi-weekly newspaper.

United States

Other Southern States

Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Georgia Historic Newspapers
Issues from 1763-2018
Newspapers: Digital Library of Georgia (Many require the DjVu browser plug-in)
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1. Athens Historic Newspapers Archives (1827-1922)
2. Atlanta Historic Newspaper Archive (1857-1922)
3. Columbus Enquirer (1828-1890)
4. Georgia Historic Newspapers
5. Southern Israelite (1829-1958 & 1984-1986)
6. Macon Telegraph (1826-1908)
7. Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive (1808-1920)
8. South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (1845-1922)
Kentucky Digital Library: Newspapers
The Kentucky Edition
Digitizing Louisiana Newspaper Project
Louisiana Biography & Obituary Index

International

Belgian Newspapers Online
The British Newspaper Archive
Searching is free, subscription needed for viewing/downloading/printing
Trove: Australian Newspapers(1803-1954)
International Coalition on Newspapers: Newspaper Digitation Projects
List of Online Newspaper Archives (Wikipedia)
Palmer's Index to the Times Newspaper: 1790-1905
World Digital Library: Newspapers

Historic Full Text Databases

17th and 18th Century Burney Collection This link opens in a new window The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media.The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.
Access World News This link opens in a new window Find diverse global perspectives on topics related to business, communications, education, government, journalism, politics and more from a variety of current and retrospective news media including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, periodicals, videos and web-only content including the Birmingham News, Press-Register, Opelika-Auburn News and USA Today.
America's Historical Newspapers: U.S. Civil War This link opens in a new window Full text/full page images of newspapers published during the American Civil War.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. It includes content digitized as part of the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by member libraries. Materials are available to the extent permitted by copyright law. As of March 2015, the HathiTrust digital library contained over 13 million digitized volumes, of which almost 5 million volumes were in the public domain (source: http://www.hathitrust.org/statistics_visualizations).
Independent Voices This link opens in a new window Independent Voices in an ongoing digitization project supported in part by Auburn University Libraries that chronicles the transformative decades of the 60s, 70s and 80s through alternative press magazines, journals, and newspapers. This interdisciplinary project is of interest to women and gender studies, sociology, political science, history, communication and multicultural studies among others.
Hate In America, White Nationalism and the Press in the 1920s This link opens in a new window Local, regional, and national newspapers published by Ku Klux Klan organizations and by sympathetic publishers across the U.S. during the 1920s. Also included are several anti-Klan newspapers.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Provides access to various databases, including current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.
New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window Provides access to the full-text of newspaper articles from the New York Times covering 1857 to the last few years.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Daily news feeds from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and Newswires from AP Online, Asia Pulse, Canadian Corporate News, Canadian Press Wire, Newsbytes News Service and World Stream Newswires, indexing and abstracting abstracts for USA Today, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal along with cover to cover full text from The Christian Science Monitor and full text for 159 regional US newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, and nine newspaper columns.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window Searchable database containing digital images of 19th-century newspapers presented as full page layouts as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. Collection includes newspapers from urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new window Collections on the transatlantic slave trade, the global movement for the abolition of slavery, the legal, personal, and economic aspects of the slavery system, and the dynamics of emancipation in the U.S. as well as in Latin America, the Caribbean, and other regions.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Contains the full-text Wall Street Journal newspaper which has extensive coverage of stock markets, finance, investments and business-oriented news. Database version from ProQuest includes business and financial news and analysis, company news, regular columns, special reports, articles on the national and world economy, editorials and opinion, interviews, and Reuters news stories. Excludes charts and free standing tabular data, such as stock tables and other exchange listings. Coverage is from 1984-present.

Indexes

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Daily news feeds from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service and Newswires from AP Online, Asia Pulse, Canadian Corporate News, Canadian Press Wire, Newsbytes News Service and World Stream Newswires, indexing and abstracting abstracts for USA Today, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal along with cover to cover full text from The Christian Science Monitor and full text for 159 regional US newspapers, eighteen international newspapers, and nine newspaper columns.

Proquest News & Newspapers Search across The New York Times (1851- current), The Wall Street Journal and the newspapers from Ethnic NewsWatch.

Helpful Links

U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690 - Present
List of Newspapers Microfilmed by the U.S. Newspaper Program The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present.
Newspapers in Microform Available in both online "page-turner" and downloadable pdf formats; these are the electronic versions of the print volumes.
Geonames The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.
Place Names A gazetteer to find countries, cities, towns, villages, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, islands and other geographic and administrative place names with their location, latitude, longitude and elevation.