Many database vendors offer the option to search across multiple databases at once, allowing cross-searching of different newspaper sets and other primary source materials.
Historical newspapers are a great primary resource. Many have been digitized and the full-text is searchable. Once you get to a website with the links below, you may need to read the help screen to learn how to search that particular website. If a newspaper has not been digitized, you may still find it on microfilm and will have to search it manually.
Coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped the continent during the 19th and early 20th centuries. From Algeria to Angola, Zambia to Zimbabwe, this resource chronicles the evolution of Africa through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.
African Newspapers: The British Library Collection features 64 newspapers from throughout Africa, all published before 1901. Originally archived by the British Library.
Open Access collection of newspapers produced by people who have been incarcerated. Includes two of the first prison publications, Forlorn Hope and Supporter, with more than 350 titles identified for inclusion.
Contains full runs of influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of British society from the 18th-20th century. UCLA has access to parts 1-5.
GPA encompasses newspapers in more than 30 languages and will ultimately include titles from over 125 countries. Wherever possible, titles are presented in their complete runs from the first issue.
The GPA CRL collections include the following eight open access collections: Imperial Russian Newspapers; Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers; Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers; Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers; Southeast Asian Newspapers; South Asian Newspapers; El Mundo Digital Archive; Daily Observer Digital Archive. The GPA CRL collections also include the following six CRL-wide member collections with access restricted to UCLA: Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers Premium (5 additional in-copyright titles); El Caribe Digital Archive; East African Newspapers; Post-Perestroika Newspapers; Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers; Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers.
Previously titled Accessible Archives Complete. UCLA's access to historical sources includes 19th-century African American Newspapers (The Christian Recorder, The Colored American, Frederick Douglass Paper, Freedom's Journal, The National Era, The North Star, Provincial Freeman, Weekly Advocate); Godey's Lady's Book (pt.2-3); The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalog; and Pennsylvania Newspaper Record.
Full text of more than 1000 open access alternative publications from the 1960s-1980s covering feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Latinos, LGBTQ+ activists, and more.
Searches all ProQuest newspapers to which UCLA subscribes, both current and historical newspapers from major U.S. cities (Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal), international news sources, and alternative press.
Full page and article images with searchable full text of the Sacramento Bee from 1857 - current.
Full page and article images with searchable full text of the San Francisco Chronicle from 1865 - current.
Full-text access to digital facsimiles of the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.
Includes full text and page images of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, advertising and images (excluding the Sunday Times) for 1785-2019.
Journals and newspapers from former Soviet republics. The database consists of titles from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Full text collection of leading Hispanic newspapers, news wires, websites, and blogs from US publishers in Spanish or English. Includes full contents of U.S. Hispanic Newsstand.
American, African, Latin American, and South Asian newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. UCLA subscribes to a subset of this collection.