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Individual Papers:
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
The Michigan Chronicle was founded in 1936 by John Sengstacke, the owner of the Chicago Defender and has continued to be a leading voice for Blacks in Detroit and beyond. It’s longtime editor, Longworth Quinn became a leader in Detroit’s African American community, business and church groups in the 1940’s solidifying the Chronicle’s position in the community.
Search the complete text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2017 for PDF images of original articles which include photographs and drawings
Databases:
Offers more than 200 significant 18th and 19th-century newspapers, with a focus on the period between 1820 and 1860.
Consists of digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 eighteenth and nineteenth century newspapers and periodicals in the original microfilm reproduction series, including 118 periodicals published during the Civil War.
Over 450 prison newspapers have been published from U.S. prisons. Some, like the Angolite and the San Quentin News, are still being published today. American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of periodicals from across the country into one collection that represents penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
Over 20,000 issues of historical newspapers from throughout Michigan that recorded history as it happened. This database has been created and is maintained by the CMU Libraries.
Searchable full-text access to the British Library's collection of the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817). More than twelve hundred titles and almost one million pages are included.
This collection of historical newspapers provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of this region
CMU's Clarke Historical Library, located in the same building as Park Library, works to collect and preserve history. They have been actively preserving Michigan newspapers for the last 50 years, and in the last decade have converted thousands of newspapers to be accessible online through the Digital Michigan Newspapers database.
For more information about their historical newspaper resources, contact them here.