LibGuides: History: Periodicals (Newspapers and Magazines)

American Periodicals

National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 This link opens in a new window
Featuring the complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, National Geographic Magazine Archive, includes every page and every photograph, all fully searchable through an intuitive interface.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Chronicling American contains selected American newspapers covering 1836-1922.

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020 This link opens in a new window
The Economist Historical Archive offers an invaluable perspective on the great events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editorials, news, commentary and letters that afford insight into British, European, American, and world affairs
LIFE Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Life Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the famed photojournalism magazine, spanning its very first issue in November, 1936 through December, 2000 in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format.

New York Newspapers

Brooklyn Eagle

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from October 26, 1841 to 1955 and was revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. The digitization of the historic Brooklyn Daily Eagle from reels of microfilm covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.

New York Amsterdam News
A weekly newspaper geared to the African American community of New York City. Founded in 1909, it is one of the oldest African American newspapers in the United States.

Locations: Physical copies: Cohen Library Circulation Desk Coverage: Latest print issues only
Microfilm: Cohen Library Reference Desk microfilm cabinets. Coverage: Dec. 21, 1921-Jan.-Dec.2010
Online: Go to Databases A-Z and search Academic Search Complete or Ethnic Newswatch Coverage: Varies

New York Times Historical Edition

The New York Times (1851 - 2009) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

European Newspapers

GENERAL

The British Newspaper Archive

Free online access to British newspaper index dating back to 1700. Users in the U.S. will not be able to access the full text of the article unless they subscribe.

GREAT BRITAIN

Burney Collection Newspapers, 17th-18th Century

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of 'news' and 'newspapers' and the "free press", totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection.

London Times

Location: Microfilm (see Circulation Desk staff)
Holdings: v1785-1993

FRANCE

Le Temps

Location: Microfilm (see Circulation Desk staff)
Holdings: v.1-v.6 (1861-1942)
One of Paris's most important dailies from April 25, 1861 to November30, 1942.

GERMANY

ZEFYS Historische Zeitungen Zeitungsinformation Ssystem (Historical Newspapers Information System)

Digitized collection of East German newspapers (Neues Deutschland, Neue Zeit, and Berliner Zeitung) from 1945 to 1990.