Newspapers are an excellent primary source that can give you rich details about the time period you are writing about. Collections of newspapers can be difficult to find. Listed below are places to start your search.
Provides access to select digitized newspaper pages. Searchable and browsable. Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC).
Online catalog of full text historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. Currently links to over 1,500 full-text newspaper titles.
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, regional newspapers, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s. It includes access to content from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN Newswires, and the Huffington Post, among others.
View a tutorial for accessing articles from a single publication: https://scribehow.com/shared/Finding_a_Specific_Newspaper_in_the_US_Newsstream_Database__4HDMnoZfReKWQd_4T_fAZQ
Subjects: multidisciplinary
Content: newspapers, newswires, blogs
Dates of publication: 1980-current