Databases & Subject Guides: ENGL 1102: English Composition II (Reeves): Newspapers

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Searching Historical Newspapers

The following databases are great for accessing historical newspapers. With Ring Shout being set in Georgia, note the Georgia Historic Newspapers link at the top of the list. This archive provides access to digitized versions of Georgia newspapers from across the state, including over one million pages between 1786 and 1986.

Georgia Historic Newspapers
Full text of newspapers printed in Georgia. Coverage dates vary by newspaper.

An online archive that provides access to digitized full-text historical newspapers from around the state.
Access World News
Regional, national, and international news coverage.

Access World News provides access to electronic editions of thousands of local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as international sources. In addition to newspaper content, sources such as blogs, broadcast transcripts, and video clips are also included. Company and industry information, politics, sports, cultural activities, and people in the community are among the subjects covered. Paid ads are excluded.
Beta trial database.
African American Newspapers Series 1 & 2, 1827-1998
Online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience

African American Newspapers, Series 1 & 2, 1827-1998, provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; rise of the NAACP; the Harlem Renaissance; the civil rights movement; political and economic empowerment; and more. Historically significant papers from more than 35 states are included, digitized from the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress. All selections were guided by James Danky, editor of the monumental African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography.
Atlanta Daily World Historical Full Text 1931-2003
Full text of the Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2003

The Atlanta Daily World is Atlanta's oldest Black newspaper. The database contains full-text and full-image articles and ads from the paper dating back to 1931.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1883- current)
Searchable full-text contents of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1883 - current

Searchable full-text contents of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper from its establishment in 1883 through the present. The earlier years provide an archive of the Atlanta Journal before its merger with the Atlanta Constitution. See the Atlanta Constitution Historical Full Text database for the pre-merger years of the Atlanta Constitution. Blog and web edition articles are included for recent years.