Research Guides: Newspapers: US Newspapers

Current US Newspapers: 1980-present

Ethnic NewsWatch (and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History) This link opens in a new window
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This resource contains full-text of over 500 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Includes Ethnic NewsWatch, which covers 1990 to the present, and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which includes materials dating back to 1959 and provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Publications are in a wide variety of languages including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Creole, Inuktitut, Russian, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic, and others.
Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to more than 3,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
General OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Indexes over 14,000 periodicals, newspapers, reference books, and multimedia sources, along with over 200,000 images, 3,300 audio files, and thousands of videos. Includes full text from 8,070 publications.
LexisNexis (now Nexis Uni) This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni is a full-text news, business, and legal database with 17,000 sources from around the world, including local, regional, national, and international newspapers, scholarly journals, trade journals, and popular magazines, television and radio broadcasts, and newswires and blogs. Legal sources include federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790. Also contains business information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies.
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New York State Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Now a part of Gale OneFile: News. Includes the following NY publications among thousands of others from around the world: New York magazine, New York Daily News, The New York Observer, New York Post, The New York Sun, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review New York Times Upfront, amNewYork, International New York Times, The Ticker, Our Town, WPIX-TV, Columbia Daily Spectator, Our Town Downtown, UN News Service, Washington Square News, and West Side Spirit. Use the Publication Search Tool to find specific titles.

New York Times
Multiple database options for accessing the NYT from 1851 to the present.

New York Times Academic Pass This link opens in a new window
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All of CUNY has access to the NYTimes Academic Pass. Anyone with a valid CUNY email address can sign up for free access to the NYTimes.com website and smartphone apps. Please click through for instructions.

New Yorker Digital Archive (via NYPL login)
The entire run of the New Yorker, in full text and full color, from 1925-present. Available at all NYPL locations and remotely with an NYPL library card.
PressReader (via NYPL login)
Provides access to current newspapers and magazines published in the last 90 days, with many popular and international titles. Full-color, full-page format.

NYPL Newspaper Databases

Through its Articles & Databases page, the New York Public Library provides access to numerous electronic resources that contain newspapers and other periodicals. Some are subscription databases available remotely with a library carrd, others are available on site at NYPL branch and/or research libraries, and others are open access resources available anywhere without a login. Searching on the word newspapers turns up more than 160 resources that can be filtered further by subject or availability. Access them here: NYPL Newspaper Resources.

Newspapers on Microfilm @ NYPL

The Microforms Reading Room at NYPL's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (5th Ave & 42nd St) has a collection of national and international newspapers on microfilm. Titles can be found by searching the NYPL catalog or one of the pdf lists of microforms in the collection linked below.

Looking for a Specific Newspaper or Journal?

GC Library Journal Search
Use the GC's Journal Search tool to check whether the library has access to a particular journal through our databases.
NYPL Journal Title Search
Select "Journal Title" from the drop down menu in the New York Public Library's Research Catalog to find specific newspapers, magazines, or other periodicals.
WorldCat Discovery
Use the Advanced search in WorldCat Discovery and select "Journal Source Phrase" under Source Index to find specific titles.

More Digitized Newspapers and Magazines

See the Digitized Texts page in our Beyond Wikipedia research guide for links to additional newspapers, magazines, books and other texts online, including the archive of Life Magazine, the Making of America sites from Cornell and the University of Michigan, The New Yorker Magazine archive, the Modernist Journals Project, and more. Many of the resources listed are open access.

Historical US Newspapers

Accessible Archives This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to 18th and 19th century American newspapers, magazines, books, and other publications. Collections include African American newspapers, Civil War publications, anti-slavery periodicals, early women’s magazines, a collection of women’s suffrage periodicals, and publications by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and more. Over 170 books and more than 70 journals are included.

African American Historical Newspapers from ProQuest (NYPL database)
This NYPL database is available to users onsite or remotely with a library card. Includes African American historical newspapers from around the United States, such as the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).

American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collections This link opens in a new window
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A collection of over 7500 digitized American periodicals published from the 17th century through the late 19th century. The Graduate Center subscribes to the five series which cover all aspects of American society, including science, medicine, literature, politics, the history of slavery, the Civil War, Westward expansion, industry and professions, agriculture, religion, fashion, family life, culture and the arts, and more.
Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present This link opens in a new window
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Over 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, speeches, letters, political leaflets, periodicals, trial transcripts, and interviews by major American Black teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other leaders, covering over 250 years of history. Writers include James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Bunche, Angela Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ralph Ellison, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Huey Newton, Jackie Robinson, Paul Robeson, Bobby Seale, Booker T. Washington, Cornel West, Richard Wright, and many others. Search across the collection or browse by person, subject, title, historical event, content type, place, or publisher.

Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, this free database provides access to the full-text of the Eagle from 1841 to 1902.

Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Online Catalog This link opens in a new window
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The Center for Research Libraries provides a shared collection of five million books, journals, documents and newspapers to supplement member libraries’ holdings in the humanities, science, and social sciences. With a strategic emphasis on expanding electronic access to international primary source collections, CRL participates in a number of cooperative digitization efforts, yielding over 15 million pages of digitized content to date.
- The largest circulating collection of newspapers in North America – more than 16,000 newspaper titles from all world regions and from every U.S. state – mainstream dailies, underground and alternative press titles, rare publications from international conflict zones, U.S. ethnic titles, early African-American newspapers, and radio broadcast reports and transcripts
- Foreign journals rarely held in U.S. libraries, with a focus on science and technology
- Access to rich holdings in science, technology, and engineering print serials through a partnership with the Linda Hall Library
- More than 800,000 non U.S. dissertations
- Area Studies: major collections of news, government documents, and archives from Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Southeast and South Asia
- Millions of pages of primary source documents, including major sets from the National Archives of the U.S. and the U.K., and many special collections from around the world
- U.S. and international legal and government resources
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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This site from the Library of Congress includes a searchable directory containing information on more than 150,000 newspapers published in the U.S. since 1690. It also includes searchable digitized images of 3,600 selected local and regional newspapers published from 1777 to 1963, including more than 20 New York papers.

Fulton Search: Historical Newspapers (New York State & U.S.)
A searchable database of newspapers published in NY State and around the U.S. between 1795 and 2007. Fulton Search is an alternative search option for FultonHistory.com. Users may also browse the list of newspapers.

HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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Millions of books digitized by a variety of major research institutions. The Graduate Center is a HathiTrust partner, which provides our community the ability to download full text searchable PDFs of items in the public domain, and the ability to create collections of items in Hathi. To enable these features, please log in on the Hathi site using CUNY Graduate School and University Center. Click more for additional login instructions.
1. On the Hathitrust home page (https://www.hathitrust.org/), click "LOG IN" in the upper right.
2. Select "CUNY Graduate School and University Center" from the drop-down menu.
3. Log in using your GC Network ID credentials.
Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Internet Archive, a vast digital library, includes a large number of newspapers, journals, and other periodicals. Search text collections by title or subject.

New York City Record, 1873-1949
The City Record is has been published daily in NYC since 1873 and includes "official listings of more than 100 city agencies and departments about public hearings, meetings, property auctions, agency rules, personnel changes and contracts to be awarded" as noted in a a profile article in the New York TImes. Browse or search across PDFs of every issue published between 1873-1949.
Newspapers.com - NYPL Resource
Accessible with a New York Public Library card. Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive consisting of 300+ million pages of historical newspapers from 11,100+ newspapers from around the United States and beyond, with a special focus on full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles in addition to small local newspapers. The collection includes a broad range of dates, mostly covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
New York City Newspapers
See the "Newspapers" article in the 1995 edition of the Encyclopedia of New York City for a history of newspapers in New York and lists of 18th Century newspapers, daily newspapers, and foreign-language newspapers published in NYC, organized by date of first publication.
New York City Newspapers at the NYPL
Provides an overview of the NYPL's collection of New York City newspapers and facilitates access to the most frequently requested titles.

New York State Historic Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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Over 11 million pages from newspapers published in New York State between 1725 and 2020. The newspapers on the website are either in the public domain (any papers published before January 1, 1924) or have been cleared for use by the original copyright holders for members of the public for noncommercial, educational, and research purposes.
New York Times Archive, 1851-2018 This link opens in a new window
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Actual page images from 1851 through 2018. Following years are added annually. When the results of a search are displayed, you have three retrieval options: 1. bibliographic citation and abstract; 2. article image (retrieved with Adobe Acrobat Reader); 3. page map, displaying the entire page on which the article appears. For current access, see New York Times Academic Pass.