Finding Primary Source Articles
Library historical news databases
- America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1998Full-text access to colonial and early American history. Also covers large collection of African American publications. With issues from over 700 titles (for many titles the holdings are scattered); includes Kentucky titles.
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersAccess to scanned newspaper pages from 1690-present and information about other American newspapers published between 1690-present.
For more newspaper databases visit the A-Z list of newspapers.
Let’s look at the New York Times Historical.
- Enter keywords significant to your topic.
- Consider limiting the publication date to on or around the date of your topic.
- Then, click the Search button.
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Once you’ve scanned your list of search results and chosen to review one of the articles, you have the option of reading it in the embedded viewer or you can download the PDF file.
- If you want to view the article in the context of the entire newspaper page, click on the “Page view - PDF tab at the top.
- To generate a citation for the article, click on the appropriate button in the upper right corner of your screen.
