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17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers (Gale)
A collection of English news media in the form of newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides from the United Kingdom collected by Reverend Charles Burney.  [more info]
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19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale)
Search the contents of 49 local and national newspapers from nineteenth century Britain. Includes titles such as the Freeman's Journal, Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, and the Pall Mall Gazette.  [more info]
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19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale)
Full text journals, magazines, and specialty newspapers that portray British life in the Victorian Age.  Subscription includes Series 1: New Readerships and Series 2: Empire.  [more info]
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19th Century US Newspapers (Gale)
Collection of over 500 US newspapers from the 19th Century.  Includes approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from both rural and urban titles.  Illustrated papers also included.  [more info]
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America's Historical Newspapers: 1690-1922 (Readex)
Cover-to-cover digital facsimiles of 1,000 historic newspapers from every state.  [more info]
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Archive of Americana (Readex)
A cluster of collections reflecting the history of the United States through its congressional publications...  [more info]
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British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive contains millions of digitized newspapers owned by the British Library.  While searching is free, there is a fee to download full text articles. JMU Libraries are not responsible for paying these fees.  [more info]
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Chadwyck-Healey)
Not recommended for use in Google Chrome.  Please use Internet Explorer, FireFox, or Safari.  C19: The Nineteenth Century Index is an all-inclusive bibliographic tool for 19th-century research.  [more info]
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
Collection of digitized American newspapers from 1860 to 1922, as well as a directory of non-digitized newspapers from 1690 to the present.   [more info]
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Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective (Accessible Archives)
Full-text of major articles related to the Civil War from the New York Herald, Charleston Mercury, and Richmond Enquirer...  [more info]
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Gale NewsVault
Gale NewsVault is a cross-searchable platform that allows us to search or browse all of our Gale historical newspaper and periodical collections.  The NewsVault allows users to browse newspapers and periodicals by title or place of publication; save, print and bookmark search results; grab, pan, and zoom images; and cross-browse all newspapers published on the same date.  [more info]
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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly, 1857-1912) (HarpWeek)
A full-text database of Harper's Weekly text and images from the 19th century (1857-1912) ...  [more info]
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Nation Digital Archive (EBSCO)
Index with full-text of the Nation magazine...  [more info]
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New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 3 years ago...  [more info]
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NewspaperArchive - Virginia
Access full text historical newspapers in pdf format. JMU subscribes to select VA newspapers only (excluding coverage from 2007). Content from all other cities and states is not available. See the [more info] link for city details. Dates of coverage varies by title.  [more info]
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Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 (Accessible Archives)
Contains the full-text of the most successful Colonial American newspaper...  [more info]
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Times Digital Archive (Gale)
Search every word of every page of The London Times, and view PDF facsimiles of either a specific article or a...  [more info]
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US Newspaper Program
The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort...
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Washington Post: Historical (ProQuest)
Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue to about 15 years ago...  [more info]
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