News & Newspapers

Combined access to all articles from all editions of the Detroit Free Press, including:

• Democratic Free Press and Michigan Intelligencer (1831-1832)
  
• Democratic Free Press (1832-1842, 1842-1848)
  
• Semi Weekly Free Press (1837)
  
• Daily Free Press (1842)
  
• Detroit Daily Free Press (1842, 1851-1858)
  
• Detroit Free Press (1837-1841, 1848-1851, 1858-present*)
  
• Detroit Free Press Blogs (2014)
  

Content from 2000-2007 and the most recent 3 months is available in text-only format. All other content is available in full image page reproductions that include all illustrations, ads, etc.

*There is a gap of missing content from May 1 to August 20, 1985.

Full-text access to the complete backfile of the Detroit News, going back to 1873. Important notes about searching the Detroit News:

• Page images are available for the years 1873-1988
• When searching for content or topics between or relevant to 1873-1988, do NOT use the drop-down menu options under "Select a Field" in the Advanced Search. No article-level metadata is included for these years (i.e., there are no headlines, bylines, section headings, etc., identified). Use the default search options.
• Some web-only content is included (2005-current)

Includes:

• Arizona Republican (1890-1922)
  
• Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984)
  
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)‎ *
  
• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) *
  
• Baltimore Sun (1837-1996)
  
• Chicago Defender (1909-1975) *
  
• Chicago Tribune (1849-2012)
  
• Christian Science Monitor (1908-2008)
  
• Cincinnati Enquirer‎ (1841-2009)
  
• Cleveland Call and Post‎ (1934-1991) *
  
• Dayton Daily News‎ (1898-1922)
  
• Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)‎
  
• The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer (1791-2003)‎
  
• Indianapolis Star (1903-2004)
  
• Jerusalem Post (1932-2008)‎
  
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) *
  
• Los Angeles Times (1881-2013)
  
• Louisville Courier Journal‎ (1830-1922)
  
• Michigan Chronicle (1939-2010) *
  
• Nashville Tennessean‎ (1812-1922)
  
• New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) *
  
• New York Times (1851-2018)‎
  
• Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
  
• Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
  
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) *
  
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786-2003)
  
• South China Morning Post‎ (1903-2001)
  
• St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Bay Times (1901-2009)
  
• U.S. Midwest Collection (various years of coverage)
  
• Wall Street Journal (1889-2004)‎
  
• Washington Post (1877-2005)‎
  
• Windsor Star (1893-2010)
  

All the newspapers can be searched individually or in combinations in this database. They are listed separately in the A-Z list as "Historical Newspapers: Title." Newspapers noted with * are also searchable in the database Black Historical Newspapers.

Combined access to all subscribed ProQuest news source databases, including ProQuest Newsstand, Gannett Newsstand, and ProQuest Historical Newspapers, as well as ABI/INFORM Dateline, Alt-Press Watch, American Periodicals, and Ethnic NewsWatch. Includes full text of thousands of newspapers, dozens of news wire services, and many news-oriented magazines and periodicals, from the past up to the present. Includes both major and smaller English-language newspapers from around the world and across the U.S., as well as selected newspapers in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Polish, and other languages.

World Newspaper Archive is a fully-searchable, digital collection of historical newspapers newspapers from around the world. It includes a gradually expanding digitized backfiles of 19th and 20th century newspapers from Africa (1800-1922), East Europe (1835-1922), Latin America and Latin America Series 2 (1805-1922) and South Asia (1864-1922). As the project expands, it will grow to include newspapers from the Middle East and Southeast Asia.