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History: Newspapers & General Archives
A guide to resources for research in history
General or Global Archives
- Getty Search This link opens in a new windowThe Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids.
- Internet Archive This link opens in a new windowThe Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts, including many primary sources.
- Perseus Digital Library This link opens in a new windowBrowse selected primary source collections and texts covering Greco-Roman, classical Greek and Latin, Early Modern English, American Civil War, and more.
Newspaper Archives
Library Databases
- InfoTrac Newsstand This link opens in a new windowFull Text
This innovative full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. Infotrac Newsstand provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. It also includes thousands of images, radio, and TV broadcasts and transcripts. - Newspaper Source This link opens in a new windowFull Text
Provides full text for more than 40 national and international newspapers as well as full text for more than 370 regional newspapers within the United States. Full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, and more. - Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new windowFull Text
Nexis Uni features more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches, and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. - US Newsstream This link opens in a new windowFull Text
ProQuest's US Newsstream enables users to search current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune. All titles are cross searchable on the ProQuest platform.
Open Access Newspaper Archives
Wikipedia also keeps an ongoing updated list of online archives for newspapers around the world . Not all are free to access, but the list is quite comprehensive.
- Arizona Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowScans of Arizona's newspapers including some from the early 19th century.
- Canada Gazette This link opens in a new windowThe Canada Gazette is the official newspaper of the Government of Canada. You can learn about new statutes, new and proposed regulations, administrative board decisions and public notices. Find out how government departments, businesses and other Canadian organizations can publish their public notices.
- Chronicling America This link opens in a new windowThe Library of Congress' large archive of historical U.S. newspapers.
- Europeana Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA collection of non-English papers from continental Europe, with some as far back as the 17th century.
- Google Newspaper Archive This link opens in a new windowThough ended, Google has kept online what had been completed of their project to scan old newspapers from small regions across the United States.
- Last Updated: May 21, 2026 9:07 AM
- URL: https://libguides.gcu.edu/History
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