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America's Historical Newspapers. "Find news articles covering topics in government, politics, social issues, culture, literature, discoveries, inventions and more from hundreds of [American] primary sources . Search using either the timeline or topic search to easily find news and eyewitness accounts and pro/con articles of events, issues and daily life in the colonies or during the Revolutionary War, westward expansion, the Civil War, Reconstruction, industrialization, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression, Vietnam War, World War II, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, globalization and other eras. Also included are illustrations, advertisements, classifieds, birth and marriage announcements, obituaries, stories about historic people and other articles exactly as they appeared in print [in this collection of historical newspapers from 1690 to 2000]."

InfoTrac Newsstand (Gale/Cengage Learning). With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can easily search a collection of more than 1,000 newspapers, translate articles into 11 different languages, create email alerts, and customize your search options and results format.

LexisNexis Academic . A reference service that lets you search the news from 1980 to today, look for U.S. and state legal cases, get company information, research countries of the world, and also find biographical information on public figures.  All full-text sources with an "easy search" or "power search" interface.

National Newspaper Index (Gale/Cengage Learning). Provides access to the indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Provided by NOVEL.

New York State Newspapers (Gale/Cengage Learning). A collection of 28 New York State newspapers with full text including The New York Times. Provided by NOVEL.

Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO). This database includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, providing more than 31 million full-text articles. In addition, the database features more than 699,000 television and radio news transcripts.