Trace the Revolutionary War rebel cause, Reconstruction after the Civil War, American industrialization into the 20th Century, both World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the development of a globalized economy in one source…
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™-the definitive digital archive-offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Digitizing The New York Times, from the first issue in 1851-2004, involved scanning, digitizing, zoning and editing over 3.4 million pages from microfilm into digital files. The full collection of ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ contains over 20 million digitized pages.
The latest additions to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program are the Black Newspapers Collection and the Civil War Era. The Black Newspapers Collection provides access to the New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel and Atlanta Daily World. The Civil War Era is a collection of newspapers and pamphlets covering the slavery and anti-slavery movements of the 1840s and 1850s to General Lee's surrender and the end of the Civil War. Both collections are cross-searchable with all of the titles in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program providing a diverse collection of primary resources for researchers.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ provides easy access to the past. Researchers can search 21 different article types to find exactly what they are looking for, including:
The ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ Extra! Edition, a graphical interface, includes additional features, editorially selected content and is a valuable addition to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program. Extra! Edition’s Timeline Topic Browse includes nearly 14,000 editorially-selected articles from five Historical Newspaper titles, covering more than 320 topics and nearly 1,000 events in U.S. history since 1851.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers features the following titles:
International titles:
*Coverage dates as of January 1, 2009
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Accessing ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, a premier information access and retrieval system. The interface makes searching and retrieval easy for all types of researchers, whether online novices or information professionals. Natural language searching, database segmenting, and conceptual smart searching are just a few of the features that help users quickly find the exact information they need.
Through the ProQuest interface, a searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image in ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved such as article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc.
To see a complete article, a researcher simply clicks on the title in the list, and the system displays the image of the full article—“threaded” to include all graphics and continuations on other pages as a single unit. Researchers also can display the complete image of any page in any issue or even browse the database and scan individual issues page by page.
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