ProQuest Historical Newspapers

The new Historical Newspapers database from ProQuest is a wonder of technology. It contains full‐text and full‐image articles from newspapers dating back to 1850. Historical Newspapers currently covers The New York Times from 1851‐1855 and 1975‐1977, and The Wall Street Journal beginning in 1985 and working backwards into the 1880s. The goal is comprehensive coverage of both of these titles, as well as other major newspapers. The newspapers are searchable by both article citation and article text. This includes advertisements, obituaries, sports pages, essentially the entire issue from cover to cover. The displays are in PDF format with an underlay...