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History

Find Newspaper Articles from the Period

The Library subscribes to The New York Times online covering 1851-2019. 

Search tips:

  • Use the Date Range limit to narrow your search to a specific time period:

  • Use the word "germany" and the field limit called "Dateline":


The Library also subscribes to The Times Digital Archive. This is the newspaper from London and covers 1785-2011. When searching it, limit your search by date range and add a keyword for German geography, something like "Germany" or "Berlin". 

Independent Voices

Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.

News Magazines Online

The Library has subscriptions to some general interest news-opinion magazine archives online:

Use these sources to discover articles and opinion columns published contemporaneously with events you are studying.

Chronicling America

The Library of Congress's project Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers provides access to selected digitized newspaper pages from 50 U.S. states and some U.S. territories. Digitized content (1777-1963) varies with the newspaper. 

In addition, the Library of Congress has other historical newspapers digitized on its site. 

AAS Historical Periodicals

The American Antiquarian Society is the nation's chief repository for newspapers published in the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States, Canada, and the West Indies. The online collection of full text periodicals spans the period 1691-1876.

Accessible Archives

Accessible Archives is a digital collection of material from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is an eclectic collection of newspapers and published texts. Highlights include a set of eight African American newspapers from the 19th century, including Frederick Douglass' Paper; full texts of county histories; a collection of newspapers and texts about the Civil War; miscellaneous newspapers such as The Pennsylvania Gazette (1728-1800), The Virginia Gazette (1736-1780), William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator (1835-1865), and many others.