Newspaper articles published at the time of an event are considered primary sources, as they are contemporaneous to the event and often include first-hand accounts and related images.
Students may find local or smaller newspapers published by social, religious, ethnic, and political groups to be particularly useful.
Check out this helpful blog post from the Library of Congress for more information:
"Using data from historic newspapers," The Signal, September 5, 2017
New-York Daily Tribune, July 07, 1863
America’s News provides current access to 3,700 U.S. news sources from all 50 states, from NewsBank. This collection highlights local newspapers from across the country, from small towns to major cities. All titles have full text, and many have full PDFs of entire issues. Popular titles include The Newark Star-Ledger, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsweek, and The Atlantic. The database also has full access to the Staten Island Advance. Full text is available from 1991 to the present, the Advance Web Edition Articles from 2012, and full PDF images of print issues from August 2023. Historical digitized, full-text searchable images are available from 1945-1991. After download, the historical PDFs are NOT searchable.
This ProQuest database includes full text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press. Covers of a wide spectrum of ethnic viewpoints, including African-American, Jewish, Latino, Native-American, and Asian-American publications.
Coverage Dates: 1990 to present
This database, formerly called InfoTrac Newsstand, is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper database which allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can customize your online newspaper database features including search options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of thousands of national, international, state and local newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search options and results format. Coverage Dates: 1980 to present
Full text of the New York Times from 1851 to 4 years ago, available in a ProQuest database. Content includes all articles in the print paper; many years have full PDF coverage, with full text searching. For access to the NYT website and apps see the NYT Academic pass. Check out our Journal Search for alternative access to current content via Gale or NexisUni.
The CSI library provides electronic access of the Staten Island Advance from 1991-present through America's News from Newsbank. We also own digitized content from 1945 to 1991. Historical content is fully searchable, but must be searched in the Newsbank interface
The Library now provides WJS coverage (1997-Present) through the Journal's online website and mobile app. Please use your CSI email at the Wall Street Journal (Online) link to sign up for access. For articles from 1970 to present, please use the Nexis Uni database to search the "Wall Street Journal Abstracts" and we will provide access via ILL.
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