General Newspapers
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Alt-PressWatch This link opens in a new windowAlternative and independent media coverage. Independent voices and regional, rural, and metropolitan perspectives on local, national, and international issues from some of the most respected and cited grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals in the U.S. Approximately 260+ publications.
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African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window270+ newspapers covering life in the Antebellum South — abolitionism; the growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more.
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America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowOffers exact reproductions of 700+ historical American newspapers from the period 1690-1900.
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Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Digital collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016. This collection provides research opportunities into subjects including the self-determination era and American Indian Movement (AIM), education, environmentalism, land rights and cultural representation from an Indigenous perspective. The 45 unique titles also include bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions, such as Hawaiian, Cherokee and Navajo languages. This resource was previously known as “American Indian Newspapers.”
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New York Times Online This link opens in a new windowAccess the New York Times website with your SJSU email address. Once you have created your NYTimes account, use it to sign into the NY Times website from anywhere. Includes interactives, video, and audio, plus digital images of the newspaper back to 1851.
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New York Times via ProQuest (1980 - present ) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.
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New York Times via ProQuest Historical (1851- present) This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new windowProvides full-text, full image, cover-to-cover access to the New York Times.
Local Newspapers
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San Jose Mercury NewsFrom 1985 to the present time, the News Library of the Mercury Center can be consulted to determine when a topic appeared in the San Jose Mercury News.
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San Jose Mercury News Clippings FileContains selected newspaper stories from 1920 to 1985, arranged by subject, personal name and corporate name.
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SF Gate This link opens in a new windowSan Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner newspaper articles. Limited to staff-written material only--wire service and freelance articles are generally not included, nor are classified ads. Photo archive can be searched separately and some articles include pictures.
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The California Newspaper Project DatabaseThe single most comprehensive source about California's newspapers.