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HIST 021/136 U.S. History 1 & HIST 022/137 U.S. History 2: Primary Sources - Newspaper Articles

US HIST 1 = HIST 021 / 136 and US HIST 2 = HIST 022 / 137

Historical Newspapers

Using Historical Newspapers

Historical Newspapers in Library Databases 

Newspapers in Holman Library Databases

More Recent Newspapers

ProQuest news and newspapers

  • Contains 350+ national and Washington State newspapers, 1959-2016.
  • You can limit your search results to a specific time period.
  • Newspaper articles from a specific time period can be primary sources (for example, newspaper articles that reported the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 or articles that reported the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal from the mid-1990s)

Recommended National News Websites

The New York Times
The Washington Post
The Los Angeles Times
The Christian Science Monitor