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America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text collection of over 1000 U.S. historical newspapers.  Divided into three collections: Series I (1690-1876), Series II (1758-1900), Series III (1829-1922).  Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.

InfoTrac Custom Newspapers
Coverage of more than 150 cover-to-cover titles and selected full-text news and business coverage from another 280 sources. Search by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other fields.

LexisNexis News
A wide variety of newspapers with a variety of days covered. The Guided News Search can narrow searches to business, legal, medical, university, arts & sports, and non-English language news (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).

NewsBank
Full text articles from the St Louis Post-Dispatch and the Kansas City Star.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com
The link takes you to the free special collections portion of the archive. Includes newspapers from the 18th century to the present.  A membership fee is required for searching the complete archive.

Trudex
Index to Truman publications including:

Kansas City Star
Part of NewsBank. Full text. 1991 to present.

New York Times Article Archives 1851-the present.
Indexes over 15 million articles published in the New York Times from September 1851 to the present.  Users can search for specific articles by keyword or phrase, author, headline, date, or date range.  Searches may be limited to articles only or broadened to include advertisements and other listings.  Searching is free and the full-text is available for purchase through this web site or you can use the citation information to locate the articles on microfilm in Truman's library collection.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Part of NewsBank.  Full text. 1988 to present.

Wall Street Journal
Full text of the newspaper from 1984 to the present.

Washington Post Articles Archive 1877 - the present
Indexes articles published in the Washington Post from 1877 to the present.  Users can search for specific articles by keyword or phrase, author, headline, date, or date range.  Searches may be limited to articles only or broadened to include advertisements and other listings.  Searching is free and the full-text is available for purchase through this web site or you can use the citation information to locate the articles on microfilm in Truman's library collection.

Primary Sources

America's Historical Newspapers
Full-text collection of over 1000 U.S. historical newspapers.  Divided into three collections: Series I (1690-1876), Series II (1758-1900), Series III (1829-1922).  Part of the Readex Archive of Americana database.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Sponsored jointly by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), this site provides select digital access to American newspapers from 1880 to 1910 and from mainly ten states. Additionally, access to an invaluable directory of newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present is available. The directory can be browsed by title or searched by state, county and city, date, keyword, frequency, language, or type of newspaper. The directory usually offers comprehensive information, such as titles, alternative titles, publication places, geographic coverage, persistent links, publishers, dates of publication, descriptions, frequencies, languages, subjects, general notes, LCCN, OCLC numbers, succeeding titles, and links to holdings.

Specialized Sources

CBS News Transcripts .
Call Number: Microfiche Cabinet 3, Drawer 3-4
Pickler Library has CBS News Transcripts for 1975 - October 1987 available in microfiche in Microfiche Cabinet 3, Drawer 3-4. (See Guide for more information.)

LexisNexis Academic
Lexis Nexis has news transcripts from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Network, National Public Radio, Official Kremlin International News Broadcasts, and more

Web Sites

Newspapers
Links to all kinds of newspapers, old and new.