Historical Research

Provides access to citations and abstracts of journal literature, full-text articles, reviews, and dissertations on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada.

Covers events from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada).

Searchable full-text journal backfile collection.

Full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

Scanned and searchable full-text images from over 1,000 American magazines and journals, including 89 journals published between 1740 and 1800 and 118 periodicals published during the Civil War (1861-1865) and Reconstruction (1865-1877) eras. Coverage includes popular and scholarly as well as regional and niche publications. Coverage 1741 - 1900

Nineteenth century newspaper collection that includes The Christian Recorder, The Colored American/Weekly Advocate, Frederick Douglass’ Paper/Douglass' Monthly, Freedmen's Journal (Freedmen's Record), Freedom’s Journal, The National Era, The Negro Business League Herald, The North Star, and Provincial Freeman.

Featuring 270 newspapers published in 36 states.

Books, pamphlets, broadsides and other scarce printed material.

Full-text access to colonial and early American history, with titles from 23 states and D.C. Also covers large collection of African American publications.

This database has news articles and much more. Speeches, essays, articles, letters, leaflets, trials, interviews, monographs and periodicals written by leaders within the black community from 1700 to 2005.

From ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Access to scanned newspaper pages from 1690-present and information about other American newspapers published between 1690-present. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

Kentucky's National Digital Newspaper Program (KY-NDNP) website offers comprehensive lists of the University of Kentucky's digitized historic newspapers available in both the Kentucky Digital Library and the Library of Congress' Chronicling America. The website also provides an extensive "how-to" on historic newspaper digitization per the NDNP specifications.

Over two centuries on-line for full-text searching of the London publication, more than 7 million articles, from 1785-1985. Widely recognized as the source for authoritative reports on politics, law, business and society. Extensive coverage of parliamentary debates, royal doings, obituaries, official appointments.

From ProQuest Historical Newspapers.

Searchable full-text of the NYT from ProQuest, with keyword searching and date limiting. Coverage is from 1851-2015.

From ProQuest Historical Newspapers

ProQuest Black Studies combines archives research experience with Black Historical Newspapers and curated secondary sources. The combination of first-hand accounts through primary sources combined with secondary sources of videos, journals and essays equips students to think critically and analyze the people, organizations, and events of Black Studies from multiple perspectives.

This site is a database of the University of Kentucky microfilm masters, including newspapers, manuscript collections, and other primary sources. Not all Kentucky newspapers available are included in this database (e.g., The Lexington Herald-Leader and The Courier-Journal). To find other available Kentucky newspapers, search InfoKat, the Libraries' online catalog.