Library Research Guides: ENGLISH &amp; COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Historic News and Reviews

Databases for Historical Periodicals

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is an archive of scholarly journals, usually containing all issues from the date of first publication (as far back as 1870) to about 2005. These journals may contain reviews of novels or books of poetry.
Readers' Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Find articles, poems, and reviews published in US & Canadian popular magazines, including Poetry, The New Yorker, or The Saturday Evening Post, up to 1982.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) This link opens in a new window
Index to articles published in over 4500 journals in the humanities & social sciences in 40 languages, 1665 to 1995
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) This link opens in a new window
Full text of journals published from 1665-1995. Note: includes British journals.
British Periodicals This link opens in a new window
journals and magazines published between 1680 and 1930.
American Periodicals, 1740-1940 This link opens in a new window
full-text facsimiles of more than 1110 American periodicals from Colonial times to early 20th century.
OpinionArchives This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable full-text archives of many news and cultural commentary magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Moment, and the New York Review of Books.

FictionMags Index
a crowd-compiled index to thousands of English-language magazines publishing fiction: pulp magazines, glossy or "slick" magazines like Collier's or Saturday Evening Post, even some online and newspaper publications. Especially useful for magazines not indexed elsewhere. No full text.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Search for historical articles in a variety of major American and British newspapers. Comprised of the following titles, which can also be searched individually: Boston Globe, 1872-1989; Chicago Defender, 1909-1975; Chicago Tribune, 1849-1997; Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003; Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996; New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993; New York Times, 1851-2016; and Washington Post, 1877-2003
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text of more than 1,000 historical U.S. newspapers. The core of this database is Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, searchable along with African American Newspapers, 1827-1998, and Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971.
Boston Globe, 1872-1989 This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text replica of this newspaper, including graphics and ads.
New York Times, 1851-2020 This link opens in a new window
1851-2007; more recent coverage in LexisNexis Academic News

Chicago Tribune, 1849-1997 This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text replica of the newspaper, including graphics and ads.
Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996 This link opens in a new window
The West Coast's major newspaper. The full-text replica from 1881 to 1996 includes graphics and ads.
Nation Archive This link opens in a new window
News weekly, 1865-present
Washington Post, 1877-2003 This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text replica of the newspaper from 1877 to 2003, including graphics and ads.

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
NOTE: Access is provided through the Boston Public Library with a Boston Public Library card. Get a Boston Public Library eCard

Newspaper Archive
Contains the Boston Post (1831-1922) and Boston Globe (1872-1922). Courtesy of the Boston Public Library using a BPL eCard - get an eCard

Guardian and the Observer (UK), 1791-2003 This link opens in a new window
Digitized full-text of the British newspaper The Guardian (1821–2003) and its sister paper, The Observer (1791–2003).
Times Digital Archive, 1765-2010 This link opens in a new window
Times of London, 1785-2006
TLS Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London, containing literature, criticism, and reviews. TLS Historical Archive contains every page of every issue of the Times Literary Supplement published from 1902 to 5 years ago.

Sunday Times of London (1822-2006)
Tremendous addition to the weekday paper with in-depth news and analysis
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19th Century British Newspapers
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17th & 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
Early English media, including papers from the colonies.
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African Newspapers, 1800-1922 This link opens in a new window
More than 40 fully searchable English- and foreign-language African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press Collection
20 significant newspapers, 1850s-1970s, many in Spanish, published in the US and Mexico - from the University of Arizona Libraries
Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
Digitized newspapers, gazettes, and other research materials from the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean in Spanish, English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese, 1884-2016.
Financial Times (1888-2009)
The world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. An essential tool for anyone studying public affairs, and economic & financial history of the last 120 years.
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The Economist (1843-2010)
Highly regarded, comprehensive appraisal of global news every week. Excellent source of economic and political analysis.
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The Irish Times, 1859-2012
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