Open Access. Search America's historic newspapers or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published from 1690-present.
(Coverage: 1770-1963)
Complete text of the major African American newspapers published in the U.S & Canada during the 19th c. (Coverage: 19th c. with limited early 20th c.)
Historical resources from 18th & 19th century America. Includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, & genealogical records. (Coverage: approximately 1726-1902)
Includes the following:American County Histories to 1900
Publications of a range of indigenous communities, with an extensive list of periodicals produced in the U.S. & Canada. (Coverage: 1828-2016 - majority of material from 1970-2016)
Primary source content essential to the study of American history & African-American culture, history, politics, & the arts. Each newspaper provides access to perspectives & information that was excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. (Coverage: late-19th to mid-21st centuries)
Titles included:
The experience & impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media. (Coverage: 1704-1975)
Part of the World Newspaper Archive, which can be found on the A-Z Databases page.
This collection can also be searched on Readex AllSearch, an integrated platform that combines Readex’s primary sources into a single cross-searchable interface.
Access to Black Life in America made possible by a grant from the Unidel Fund.
Delaware/Pennsylvania Titles:
Full text of the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, one of the premier newspapers of the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. (Coverage: 1728-1800)
The Library has a complete run of the Pennsylvania Gazette on microfilm (Microfilm S 26) & a facsimile edition in the Morris Library stacks (AN2 .A2 P45).
Explore African history & culture during the 19th & early 20th centuries through more than 60 African newspapers. Features English and foreign language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, & Zimbabwe. (Coverage: 1800-1922)
African Newspapers I is a component World Newspaper Archive, which can be found on the A-Z Databases page.
This collection can also be searched on Readex AllSearch, an integrated platform that combines Readex’s primary sources into a single cross-searchable interface.
Explore Latin American history & culture during the 19th & early 20th centuries via 35 Latin American newspapers. Features titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, & elsewhere. (Coverage: 1805-1922)
Part of the World Newspaper Archive, which can be found on the A-Z Databases page.
This collection can also be searched on Readex AllSearch, an integrated platform that combines Readex’s primary sources into a single cross-searchable interface.
Full-text, searchable archive of newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Reverend Charles Burney, this collection represents the largest single archive of 17th & 18th century news media available from the British Library. (Coverage: 1603 - early 1800s)
This collection can also be searched on Gale Primary Sources, an integrated platform that combines Gale’s digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface.
John Nichols (1745–1826) began collecting newspapers around 1778 & made them available to scholars, a tradition continued by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The collection contains over 150,000 pages of printed text, spanning nearly 100 years of history. Essential to the study of British history & culture in crucial periods, & featuring many rare news media resources. (Coverage: 1672-1737)
This collection can also be searched on Gale Primary Sources, an integrated platform that combines Gale’s digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface.
Explore South Asian history & culture during the 19th & early 20th centuries via hundreds of thousands of fully searchable newspaper pages. Features titles published in India, Pakistan, & Sri Lanka. Languages include English, Bengali, Gujarati, & others. (Coverage: 1864-1922)
Part of the World Newspaper Archive, which can be found on the A-Z Databases page.
This collection can also be searched on Readex AllSearch, an integrated platform that combines Readex’s primary sources into a single cross-searchable interface.
A multidisciplinary database that includes a comprehensive range of content for the region, both for current issues & events in Latin America & the Caribbean, as well as for historical perspective back to the colonial period. (Coverage: 15th -20th c.)
Not everything has been digitized and is available in the databases we subscribe to at the University of Delaware. Therefore, you might have to consult microforms from time to time. Our Microforms Room is located on the lower level of the library. You can locate most microform by searching in our catalog, DELCAT.
If you need help setting up the microforms readers, talk to someone at the Student Multimedia Design Center desk near the room. If you need research help or are not able to find information in our catalog, contact the microforms librarian, Kaitlyn Tanis at kltanis@udel.edu.