Trace the Revolutionary War rebel cause, Reconstruction after the Civil War, American industrialization into the 20th Century, both World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the development of a globalized economy in one source… 

ProQuest Historical Newspapers™-the definitive digital archive-offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.  As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.

Digitizing The New York Times, from the first issue in 1851-2005, involved scanning, digitizing, zoning and editing over 3.4 million pages from microfilm into digital files.  The full collection of ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ contains over 20 million digitized pages.

The latest additions to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program are the Black Newspapers Collection and the Civil War Era.  The Black Newspapers Collection provides access to nine titles including the Chicago Defender and Baltimore Afro-American. ProQuest Civil War Era is a collection of newspapers and pamphlets covering the slavery and anti-slavery movements of the 1840s and 1850s to General Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War.  Both collections are cross-searchable with all of the titles in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program providing a diverse collection of primary resources for researchers.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ provides easy access to the past.  Researchers can search 21 different article types to find exactly what they are looking for, including:

• News
• Editorials
• Letters to the Editor
• Obituaries
• Birth and Marriage Announcements
• Stock Photos
• Advertisements
• …and more

The ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ Extra! Edition, a graphical interface, includes additional features, editorially selected content and is a valuable addition to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program. Extra! Edition’s Timeline Topic Browse includes nearly 14,000 editorially-selected articles from five Historical Newspaper titles, covering more than 320 topics and nearly 1,000 events in U.S.history since 1851.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers features the following titles:

• Atlanta Constitution—1868-1942
• The Baltimore Sun—1837-1922 Coming Soon
• The Boston Globe—1872-1925
• The Chicago Tribune—1849-1986
• The Christian Science Monitor—1908-1995
• Hartford Courant—1764-1984
• Los Angeles Times—1881-1986
• The New York Times with Index—1851-2005
• New York Tribune—1841-1922
• San Francisco Chronicle—1865-1922
• Wall Street Journal—1889-1991
• Washington Post—1877-1992

International Newspapers:

• The Guardian & The Observer—1791-2003
• Irish Times & Weekly Irish Times—1859-2007
• The Scotsman—1817-1958

Black Newspapers:

• Atlanta Daily World—1931-2003
• The Baltimore Afro-American—1893-1988
• Cleveland Call & Post—1934-1991
• Chicago Defender—1910-1975
• Los Angeles Sentinel—1910-1975
• New York Amsterdam News—1922-1993
• The Norfolk Journal & Guide—1921-2003
• The Philadelphia Tribune—1912-2001
• Pittsburgh Courier—1911-2002

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