Access to historical issues of major newspapers from the United States (including important Black-owned newspapers), Israel, China, Korea, Ireland, India, Canada, and the United Kingdom. After 2022, the library will subscribe to some of the best-used titles
Complete digital archives of The Times (1785-1985). May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
UIC users can search through the complete digital archives of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.
A fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from the 18th century to 1922 created in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries. UIC's subscription includes: America's Historical Newspapers and Latin American Newspapers. No holdings after 1922.
America's Historical newspapers consists of Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876. Latin American Newspapers contains more than 35 nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American newspapers. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere.
Recent ethnic newspapers and scholarly publications in Black Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Global Asian Studies, Jewish Studies and many other topics going back to about 1990 in many cases
The general categories of ethnic groups represented in the Ethnic NewsWatch database are:
*African American/Caribbean/African
*Arab/Middle Eastern
*Asian/Pacific Island
*European/Eastern European
*Hispanic
*Jewish
*Multi-ethnic
*Native People
Accessible Archives offers access to primary source material from prior to 1900 that has been fully digitized and is full-text searchable. To view the collections UIC subscribes to, see more .
UIC's subscription includes access to the following:
Searchable American newspapers enable users to explore America's past, and includes Early American Newspapers Series 1, 6 and 7, which cover dates from 1690-1922.
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.
American Indian Newspapers presents the publications of a range of communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the United States and Canada, from 1828 to 2016.
Digitized British historic newspapers with curatorial materials from Gale Artemis Primary Sources. This database may not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
A significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. In addition one will find essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis.
120,000 typewritten pages translated from newspapers of 22 different foreign language communities of Chicago from 1855 to 1938 by the Works Progress Administration of Illinois.
Research Chicago history through the Chicago Sun-Times Historical Archive. Study trends, issues, events, advertisements, companies and more through historical full newspaper pages from 1929 through 1985.
The Economist has presented global news since 1843. The Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue from 1843 to 3 years ago as a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries. May not be compatible with Firefox.
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.
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Chronicles 189 years of Russian history through out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.
Over 1,000 titles from Mexico's pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), the newspapers include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news
Provides invaluable perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century.
Growing collection of Latin American and Caribbean historical newspapers in a partnership between Center for Research Libraries and Newsbank to preserve and provide persistent access to historical newspapers from around the globe.
Nineteenth century to present. Key topics include colonialism, the Ottoman Empire, Suez Crisis, Cold War, petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, World Wars, state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and Arab Spring. NOTE: registration is required to download PDFs.
1.2 million pages are available in digiPress, the newspaper portal of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The historic newspaper portal now includes more than 7.8 million digitized pages.
Full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers in 19th century Great Britain. May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
19th Century British Library Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society.
Hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers are captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration. May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
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.
The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays, aiming at preserving historical news reporting of Hong Kong for reference and research.
Collection of 17th and 18th century English news media, published mostly in London, some provincial, Irish and Scottish, and a few colonial. May not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
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 from the American colonies, Europe and India.
The Virginia Gazette was the first newspaper published in Virginia and the first to be published in the area south of the Potomac River in the colonial period of the United States.
Published weekly in Williamsburg, VA between 1736 and 1780, The Virginia Gazette contained news covering all of Virginia and also included information from other colonies, Scotland, England and additional countries.