Research guides: News Sources: United States

United States of America news sources

Most of these databases include multiple news sources allowing you to search a topic across different sources at the same time. Check date coverage information for each database and then for each news source to be sure it covers the scope you need.

The following list of American sources has two sections:

Current
Archival (back issues and ceased publications)

Current

Factiva
News, business magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts.
Coverage: 1970s - present. Varies by publication
Factiva forbids storing or using search results in research applications such as data mining or trend analysis.
Note: If you are at a public workstation you will be asked for your WatIAM (Quest) User ID and Password.
Nexis Uni
News, legal, and business sources from around the world, Find news, legislation, case law, statutes, company profiles, market & industry reports.
Coverage: 1970s - present
Note: If you are at a public workstation you will be asked for your WatIAM (Quest) User ID and Password.
PressReader
Access to newspapers and magazines from around the world in full-color, full-page format.
No Proxy/Off campus access to the Globe and Mail via PressReader.
Coverage: Varies
Gale Academic OneFile: News
Access over 2500 news sources via Gale; mostly from the United States but also Canada, the UK, Australia, and other parts of the world.
Coverage: 1950s - present

Archival (back issues and ceased publications)

Abolitionist Newspapers of the 1850s
Note: these papers were published in Ontario [Canada West]
Search 3 titles:
Provincial Freeman Mar. 24, 1853 - Jan. 3, 1876
Voice Of The FugitiveJan. 1, 1851 to Dec. 16, 1852
True Royalist May 10, 1860 to Jun. 21, 1861

Indigenous Newspapers in North America (formerly American Indian Newspapers)
A collection of papers from Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada.
Coverage: 1828 - 2016

Chronicling America
Coverage: 1777 - 1963
Historical U.S. Newspapers via ProQuest
Digital archives of: Atlanta Constitution (June 17, 1868 - Dec. 31, 1929); Boston Globe (March 4, 1872 - Dec. 31, 1923); Chicago Defender (1905 - 1975); Chicago Tribune (April 23, 1849 - Dec. 31, 1985); Christian Science Monitor (Nov 25, 1908-Dec 31, 1993); Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984); Los Angeles Times (Dec. 4, 1881 - Dec. 31, 1985); New York Times (Sept 18, 1851 - Dec 31, 2003); Wall Street Journal (July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1989); Washington Post (Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990).