Research Guides: HIST 256 Recent America: WWII to 9/11 Petit: Finding News Articles Online

Finding Newspapers (Hope Primo)

Open Access Historical/Archives

Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1949 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Elephind
Use it to search historic digitized newspaper archives from around the globe. Elephind.com focuses on historical, digitized newspapers. You can search, for free, across many newspaper sites simultaneously, rather than having to visit each site separately. Collections include: Trove [National Library of Australia], California Digital Newspaper Collection [UC Riverside], Chronicling America [US Library of Congress], Indiana Digital Historic Newspaper Program (Indiana State Library), and The Portal to Texas History.
Google Historic Newspapers by name
Google News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time.

National & International News

Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Subject: Journalism
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from regional, national, and international newspapers. Also includes full-text video and radio transcripts from CBS News, Fox News, NPR, etc.
New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
Subject: Journalism
Content/Description: Provides unlimited access to NYTimes.com and its mobile apps.
For more information or to get help registering, view our guide. Once you've created a NY Times account, log in for additional features
Wall Street Journal Digital Edition Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
Subject: Journalism, Communication, Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Grants access to WSJ.com and mobile apps.
Please note:For more information or to get help registering, view our guide. You must register as a user with your Hope email before accessing content.

Online Newspapers
portal site for world newspapers

America’s News (Newsbank) This link opens in a new window
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Full text access to newspapers from across the country. Includes Holland Sentinel, Grand Rapids Press, and Detroit News.
Magazine Archives (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Subject: Journalism, Communication, Business
Content/Description: Contains article and video publication archives from the magazines: Fortune (1930-2000), Life (1936-2000), Time (1923-2000), U.S. News & World Report (1926-1984), The Atlantic (1857-2014), and Bloomberg Businessweek (1929-2000).

Historical/Archives

Chicago Tribune (ProQuest) 1849-1998 This link opens in a new window
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1998.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) [1851-2019] This link opens in a new window
Subject: History, Journalism
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from the New York Times newspaper.
London Times Digital Archive (Gale) [1785-2019] This link opens in a new window
Subject: History, Journalism, Communication
Content/Description: Contains the London Times' comprehensive published content (i.e. articles, editorials, letters to the editor, reports, advertisements, obituaries, reviews) spanning the length of its operation.

Local/Campus News

Anchor Online Archive (1887-2024) This link opens in a new window
Subject: Interdisiplinary
Content/Description: Provides articles from Hope's student newpaper, the Anchor.
Holland City News This link opens in a new window
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides newspaper articles published in Holland, Michigan for the English-speaking people in the area.

Search for News Articles and Transcripts

Holland Sentinel

Considered Reputable News/Magazine Sources (?)

New Yorker, WSJ, New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American, Economist, Washington Post, BBC, Der Spiegel, New Republic, National Review, Nation

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