Business and Economic History: Newspapers and other Primary Sources

America's Historical Newspapers contains Early American Newspapers, which is a digital collection of colonial and early national period newspapers with over two million issues from American colonies and states from the 17th to the early 20th centuries. The web version contains digital images of each page, searchable OCR text corresponds to each image, and format to allow easy magnification.

They provide a primary source for research in history, political science, American Studies, and journalism.

Subject: U.S. history and culture
Content: American periodicals originating between 1741-1941, covering two centuries of Americana
Format: ASCII background searchable text, full image
Why it’s Unique:
• 200 years of American history
• Now complete! 7 million page images, over 1,100 periodicals
• Major events and everyday life in full image
• Interface customized for searching historical content

The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2008. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.

Collections of back issues of scholarly journals in the following disciplines: arts and sciences, business, ecology and botany, and general science.

With digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers and advanced searching capabilities, researchers will be able to research history in ways previously unavailable. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

This resource offers a wide range of researchers access to information about history, culture and seminal developments across nearly a century.