"On This Date" Searching in Historical Newspapers
- Go to the Historical Newspapers database, which includes the Chicago Tribune, 1849-present; Los Angeles Times, 1881-present; New York Times, 1851-present; Wall Street Journal, 1889-present; and Washington Post, 1877-present.
- Click Advanced Search, if not already there.
- Choose the "on this date" search like this:
Newspapers
See guide for complete list.
- America's News (~1980s-present; Newsbank)Newspaper articles, news blogs, magazines, newswires, journals, transcripts, videos, and web-only news sources. Includes the Oklahoman from 1981 onward and the Oklahoman Web Edition from 2013 onward.
- American Prison Newspapers (1800-2020; JSTOR, Reveal Digital)Hundreds of newspapers from prisons in every state. Includes penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women-only institutions.
- Black Life in America, Series 3 (1976-present; Newsbank)Part of the America's News database. American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications.
- Ethnic NewsWatchNewspapers, magazines, and journals from African American, Hispanic American, and Native American presses
- Factiva Academic Edition (~1970s-present; Dow Jones)U.S. and world newspapers and business and company information. NOTE: Some newspapers are not available in the academic version of Factiva.
- Historically Black Newspapers (ProQuest)Includes these historically Black papers:
-Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2010;
-Chicago Defender, 1909-2010;
-Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2010;
-New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010;
-Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-2010;
-Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2010. - Historical U.S. Newspapers (ProQuest)Includes these U.S. papers:
-Chicago Tribune, 1849-present;
-Los Angeles Times, 1881-present;
-New York Times, 1851-present;
-Wall Street Journal, 1889-present;
-Washington Post, 1877-present.
(The UK's Guardian and Observer, 1791-2003, is also included in this search as are papers from the Historically Black Newspapers collection.) - Indigenous Newspapers of North America (1828-2016; Adam Matthew)Includes national, local, and student publications from Indigenous peoples of what is now the U.S. and Canada. In English and Indigenous languages.
- Neues Deustchland Digital Archive (1946-present; Eastview/CRL)Originally the official organ of the former German Democratic Republic. Continues today as one of Germany’s national dailies, offering contemporary communist and socialist perspectives from German society.
- Newspaper Archive (1607-2024)A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. U.S. and international newspapers. NOTE: Sometimes if a paper is not in Newspapers.com, it will be in this database.
- Newspapers.com Library Edition (1690-2024; Ancestry.com via Proquest)A Metropolitan Library (OKC public) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. Full runs and portions of runs of well-known, regional and state titles to small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. NOTE: The library edition does not have all newspapers that the personal subscription includes.
- Newspaper Source Plus (~1980s-present; Ebsco)More than 500 U.S. newspapers and 600 international newspapers, as well as newswires, and radio and television transcripts.
- Norman Transcript--1889-2022. 4th floor East, outside former Government Documents Department.
--Online 2008-present. (Text only.) - Oklahoma Daily (1916-2017; Oklahoma Historical Society)University of Oklahoma student newspaper. Also see The University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers Collection below.
- Oklahoman (1981-present; Newsbank)Text only, 1981-2019. Scanned images of the paper available from 2020-present.
- Oklahoman Archive (1901-present; Newsbank)A Pioneer Library System (Norman) database. Sign up for a library card if you don't have one. The Oklahoman, formerly The Daily Oklahoman. Full text of images to 1991. Text only 1992-2019. NOTE: Scroll down and click on Oklahoman Archive - Newsbank.
- University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers (1905-2017; Oklahoma Historical Society)Includes the Oklahoma Daily. The University of Oklahoma Student Newspapers Collection comprises work produced across various publications that have chronicled the evolution of the University of Oklahoma since its earliest days.
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