Newspaper Databases

America's Historical Newspapers  1690 - 1922
Search or browse the full-text of over 1,000 early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. This database includes titles from all fifty states and there are nine titles for North Carolina alone.  Also included are several early newspapers in languages such as French and German.

LexisNexis Academic  
Search the full text of newspapers worldwide.  

New York Times Historical  1851 - 2009
Provides full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 19th century.  

Newspaper Source Plus  1996 - present
Selected full text for national and international newspapers. Also includes full-text television and radio news transcripts.  

Regional Business News  1984 - current
Contains abstracts for 75 regional business publications, with full text for 54 of those titles.  

Times Digital Archive  1785 - 1985
Includes every page as published from 200 years of The Times (London). The Times, often referred to as the "world's newspaper of record," covers international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War.  Users may search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, obituaries, and advertising. Content, including both pictures and text, may be search or browsed by category, author, date, title and more.

Wall Street Journal  1981 - present
Index of articles from 1981 to present. Many complete articles from 1984 to present.  

Proquest Historical Newspapers  1849 - 2009
Contains the full text of the Washington Post (1877-1995), Los Angeles Times (1881-1988), New York Times (1851 - 2009), and Chicago Tribune (1849-1988). For information on access to other newspapers, see our Research Guide to Newspapers   (http://researchguides.wcu.edu/newspapers).

African-American Newspapers  1827-1998
A collection of U.S. newspaper articles published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience, including: life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era,  the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment and more. All full text.