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Historical Newspaper Databases
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.
Harpweek - The Civil War Era: 1857-1865 This link opens in a new window
Provides a complete set of digitized pages, together with a manually indexed database which provides access to Harper's Weekly by category, topic, and time period, in indexes of the history, literature, advertising, illustrations, and names found in this diverse source.
Historical Newspapers Online This link opens in a new window
Online indexing of the Times (London) from 1790-1980 and the New York times from 1851-1923. Indexes can be searched individually or in combination by names, events, and subjects with Boolean, proximity, wildcard, and truncation search operators. Also includes the full text of Times (London) articles from 1785 to 1870.
Newspapers.com This link opens in a new window
Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 916 million+ pages of historical newspapers from 24,400+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond. [Description from the vendor] Provided by AU Libraries and the Philpott Fund for the Humanities and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities.
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.
New York Times Online This link opens in a new window
Auburn University's subscription to the New York Times for faculty, students, and staff. For more information and access instructions, please see http://libguides.auburn.edu/NYTimes.
NewsLibrary This link opens in a new window
Searchable archives of newspapers from around the U.S.A., with coverage as far back as 1978 for some titles. Personal subscribers can customize the list of newspaper titles to which access is provided.
