Research Guides: Twentieth Century World History: 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.

International News Archives

International Newspaper Archives

There are some online publicly available international newspaper collections as well.

European Newspaper Archives Links to (mostly) free European newspaper archives. Includes British, Irish, Welsh, German, French, Dutch, and other collections. From Xooxle Answers.

International News: Historical Archives. Newspaper collections from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the rest of the world excluding Europe and the U.S.

The Center for Research Libraries

Newspapers at the Center for Research Libraries. Database of more than 12,000 titles of U.S. and foreign newspapers (current and restrospective) held by the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) in Chicago. Because the Rutgers Libraries are members, CRL will lend copies of newspapers (usually on microfilm) to Rutgers researchers .

The Press Then and Now

Contemporary Accounts

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 New York Times: Allows you to search and display the full image of articles published in the New York Times back to 1851. The three+ 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 2000. Rutgers-restricted Access.

African Newspapers: More than 40 fully searchable African newspapers published between 1800 and 1922. Rutgers-restricted Access.

Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press: Search or browse Mexican and Mexican American publications, primarily daily and weekly newspapers, published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the present. A project of the University of Arizona.

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
Australian Newspapers: 1803-1954: More than forty titles hosted by the Australian National Library. Articles are searchable by keyword, date, and selected categories.

Historical Jewish Press: Search 35 Jewish newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries in various countries. Most newspapers in Hebrew, although other languages are included. Includes the Palestine Post, 1932 to 1950.