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Historical News Resources

We are currently building this page.  Over time we hope to provide lists of newspapers in differnt formats, bibliographies, and advice on finding the newspapers you need.  It can be very simple or involved, and we hope to make this page the useful first stop.  For current news please check the subject guide to Current News Resoruces.

 

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Librarian for Historical News Resources

For questions about historical news resources, please call or visit the reference desk on the first floor of the library, or send an email to our Ask-A-Librarian service.  You can also check via email with Andrew H. Lee, the Librarian for History.   I will try and help.

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Resources Arranged By Subject

  • Dictionary of Historic Documents. Kohn, G.C. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
    Bobst REF1 D9 .K63 1991
    Identifies and provides significance of more than 2,200 documents throughout history, alphabetically; extensive index and classified bibliography of source collections
  • Facts on File Encyclopedia of the 20th Century. Drexel, J. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
    Bobst REF1 D419 .F33 1991
    A-Z subject arrangement with index, cross-references, and suggestions for further reading
  • A Dictionary of World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/find_articles_title.html (via Oxford Reference Online)
    Contains 4,700 alphabetically organized entries
  • Cook, Chris. The Longman Handbook of World History Since 1914. London ; New York : Longman, 1991.
    Bobst REF1 D421 .C64 1991
    Subject listings with geographical classification and glossary, biographies, and bibliography; also lists political offices
  • Encyclopedia of World History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
    Bobst REF1 D9 .E539 1998
    Alphabetically arranged, with chronology and index
  • Butt, John J. The Greenwood Dictionary of World History. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
    Bobst REF1 D9 .B87 2006

Historical Atlases

  • Atlas of World History . O'Brien, P.K. London: Oxford, 1999.
    Bobst REF1 G1030 .O85 1999
    Color maps, worldwide scope, indexed
  • Harper Atlas of World History. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
    Bobst REF1 G1031 .G68513 1987
    Color illustrations, topical index, chronologies, and texts
  • The Times History of the World . Barraclough, G. London: Times Books, 1999.
    Bobst REF1 Atlas G1030 .T48384 1999
    Worldwide scope, arranged chronologically
  • Historical Atlas of the World . Skokie, Il: Rand McNally, 1997.
    Bobst REF1 G1030 .R35 1997
    Worldwide scope, color maps, arranged chronologically

Indexes

  • Accessible Archives 18th & 19th Centuries
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  • American Periodicals Series (APS Online) 18th & 19th Centuries
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    APS consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 18th and 19th century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, American periodical series, I, II, and III.
  • The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective
    Bobst REF1 Desk E468 .C58 1994 CD-ROM
    This CD-ROM contains the full text of over 11,000 articles from over 2500 issues of both Northern and Southern newspapers published between Nov. 1, 1860 and Apr. 30, 1865. It includes over 700 graphic images of battlefield maps and illustrations.
  • Early American Newspapers Digital 1690-1876
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    The database offers cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. It is based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. The actual dates of coverage are more constrained as Readex is in the process of digitizing pages and updating the effective coverage of the product.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    This database is a full-text, interdisciplinary and bilingual (English and Spanish) collection of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This database contains the retrospective backfile of Ethnic NewsWatch titles with coverage from 1960 through 1989. Currently, the database includes thirty-nine publications.
  • Niles' Register: Cumulative Index, 1811-1849
    Bobst REF1 Desk JK1 .N5 CD-ROM
    This CD-ROM includes over 350,000 listings of people, places, and events.
  • Nineteenth Century Masterfile 18th - Early 20th Century
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    This database is an index to nineteenth century periodicals, books, newspapers, papers, patents and American and British government documents.
  • Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800
    Bobst REF1 Desk F152 .A23 CD-ROM , 1728-1800
    Bobst Microfilm Film 350, 1742-1749, 1754-1759, 1770-1773
    Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century. Thousands of articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements give a detailed glimpse of issues and lifestyles of the times. Also included is the full-text of such important writings as: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne's Common Sense, The Federalist Papers, etc.
  • The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers
    Bobst REF1 Desk PN1581 .P47 1997 CD-ROM
    This CD-ROM contains references to music, poetry, dance, and theater found in American newspapers published from 1690 through 1783, including those in French and German. It offers full text citations, indexes of names, genres, subjects, titles, and first-lines of lyrics, a bibliography of issues, and a graphic file of woodcuts.

Historical Newspapers

N.B.: The following list represents only a small sample of the newspapers in Bobst Library's collection. Please consult the catalog, BobCat, for newspapers that do not appear below.

  • Early American Newspapers
    Description from GAT: American newspapers, mainly from 1704-1820, a few titles into the mid 19th century. The collection presently contains about half of the 2120 titles published before 1820; titles are added periodically.
    Microform: Film 350 & Microprint: MP8
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle
    October 26, 1841 - December 31, 1902
    URL: http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
  • Historical Atlanta Journal Constitution
    June 17, 1868 - Dec. 31, 1929
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  • Historical Chicago Daily Tribune
    April 23, 1849 - Dec. 31, 1985
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  • Historical The Chicago Defender
    1905 - 1975
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Microform: 1921-1967
  • Historical Christian Science Monitor
    Nov 25, 1908-Dec 31, 1993
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  • Historical Los Angeles Times
    Dec. 4, 1881 - Dec. 31, 1985
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
  • Historical New York Times
    Sept 18,1851-Dec 31, 2003
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Microform: 1851-Present
  • Historical Wall Street Journal
    July 8, 1889-Dec 31, 1989
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Microform: 1920-1993
  • Historical Washington Post
    Dec 12, 1877-Dec 31, 1990
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Microform: 1877-2004
  • London Times Digital Archive
    1785-1985
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Microform: 1788-2004
    Print Index: Bobst LL2 AI21.T5, 1906-1985
  • New York Amsterdam News
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/ejournals.html
    Microform: 1922-1938, 1943-1962, 1962-2001
  • New York Evening Post
    Microform: 1801-1934
  • New York Sun
    Microform: 1870-1916, 1946-1950
  • The Village Voice
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/ejournals.html, 1991-Present
    Microform: 1955-Present

Books Arranged by Date or Period

Books on the role of newspapers 

  • Salmon, Lucy Maynard. The newspaper and authority. New York: Oxford university press, 1923.
    Bobst PN4731 .S18
  • Salmon, Lucy Maynard. The newspaper and the historian. New York: Oxford university press, 1923.
    Bobst PN4731 .S2
  • Facts on File. New York, Facts on File News Services
    Bobst REF1 D410 .F3, Current Edition Only
  • Keesing's Record of World Events. London: Longman.
    URL: http://library.nyu.edu/collections/databases.html
    Bobst Microform Film/Per 1931-1980.
    Bobst REF1 D410 .K4, Current Edition Only
  • The Annual register. London: Longmans, 1937 - date.
    Bobst REF1 D2.A7, Current Edition
    Bobst REF1 D2.A7, 1946-1959; 1964-
    Bobst D2.A7, 1801-1848, 1850-1945
    Bobst OffSite SpecCol D2.A7, 1758; 1760-1763; 1765-1775; 1777-1799
    URL: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/
    The annual volumes are arranged by country.

Chronologies

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of World History. Books, M.H. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998
    Bobst REF1 D9 .E539 1998
    A-Z entries, includes a chronology of world history.
  • Encyclopedia of World Facts and Dates. Carruth, G. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993.
    Bobst REF1 D11.5 .C37 1993
    From 18,000,000,000 BCE to December, 1992; arranged by categories within a time period, indexed.
  • The Twentieth Century: An Almanac. Ferrell, R. New York: World Almanac Publications, 1984.
    Bobst REF1 D421 .T84 1984
  • Chronology of World History . Mellersh, H.E.L. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
    Bobst REF1 D11 .M39 1999
    Chronology with index
  • The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Stearns, P.N. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001
    Bobst REF1 D21 .E578 2001
    Chronology with index.
  • People's Chronology. Trager, J. New York: H. Holt, 1992
    Bobst REF1 D11 .T83 1992
    Information arranged year by year, covers a broad range of topics, indexed
  • Cassell's Chronology of World History: Dates, Events and Ideas That Made History. Williams, H. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005
    Bobst REF1 D11 .W635 2005
    A chronology of world history from 135,000 BCE to 2004, indexed
  • Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Hellmann, Paul T. New York: Routledge, 2005
    Bobst REF1 E154 .H45 2005
    Arranged by state and locality, a chronological listing of important events

Timetables

  • Day by Day Series
    Presents detailed information on a "daily" basis for each of the decades mentioned.
  • Day by Day: the Nineties. Avasthi, S. NY: Facts On File, 2004.
    Bobst REF1 D856 .A93 2004
  • Day by Day: the Eighties. Meltzer, E. and M. Aronson. NY: Facts On File, 1995.
    Bobst REF1 D848 .M45 1995
  • Day by Day: the Seventies. Leonard, T., C. Crippen, M. Aronson. NY: Facts On File, 1988.
    Bobst REF1 D848.L4 1988
  • Day by Day : the Sixties. Parker, T. and D. Nelson. NY: Facts on File, 1983.
    Bobst REF1 D840.P27 1983
  • Day by Day: the Fifties. Merritt, J. D., S.L. Goulden. NY: Facts on File, 1979.
    Bobst REF1 D842.5.M4 1979
  • Day by Day: the Forties. Leonard, T. M., R. Burbank, S. L. Goulden.. NY: Facts on File, 1977.
    Bobst REF1 D427.L4 1977
  • Day by Day: the Forties. Leonard, T. M., R. Burbank, S. L. Goulden.. NY: Facts on File, 1977.
    Bobst REF1 D427.L4 1977
  • See Also: The 1990s. Oxby, Marc. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
    Bobst REF1 E169.12 .O96 2003
    Contains a timeline of events in the United States, chapters on many aspects of popular culture in the United States from 1990-1999

The following sources present information in columns for quick comparison of events around the world, in different fields during the same time period.

  • The Timetables of History. Grun, B. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
    Bobst REF1 D11 .G78 2005
  • Calendar of Creative Man. Paxton, J. New York: Facts on File, 1980.
    Bobst REF1 NX447.5 .P38
  • Timetables of Jewish History. Gribetz, J., Greenstein, E.L. and Stein, R. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
    Bobst REF1 DS114 .G68 1993
  • Timetables of Women's History. Greenspan, K. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
    Bobst REF1 HQ1121 .G74 1994
  • Timetables of African-American History. Harley, S. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995
    Bobst REF1 E185 .H295 1995
  • Timetables of Science. Hellemans, A. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
    Bobst REF9 Q125 .H557 1988
  • Timetables of Technology. Bunch, B.H. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
    Bobst REF9 T15 .B73 1993
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