Research Guides: Violence in Latin America: Finding Newspaper Articles

Why Newspapers?

You can use historical newspapers to find out how issues and events were reported during a specific time in history.

Today's News

Many newspapers allow you to register and receive free access to at least a portion of that day's published articles.

Latin America Media

LANIC: Newspapers & News in Latin America

International News Archives on the Web: Latin America. Selective coverage of papers with searchable archives.

Contemporary Accounts: U.S. Media

Access World News: Access to the full text of over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers. Rutgers-restricted Access

Westlaw Campus Research: "News" portion indexes the full text of many newspapers.Rutgers-restricted Access

Factiva: A vast archive which includes the full-text of 8,000 leading newspapers(including the New York Times), magazines, trade journals, newsletters, and television and radio transcripts. Ten to twenty year+ backfile for many titles. Rutgers-restricted Access.

Historical Accounts

Historical New York Times: Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The two+ most recent years are not included, use Factiva.Rutgers-restricted Access.

Historical Washington Post: Search and display the full image of articles published in the Washington Post between 1877 and 1993. Rutgers-restricted Access.

Latin American Newspapers: This collection contains scanned images of historical newspapers from North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Rutgers-restricted Access