Research Guides: Theatre &amp; Drama: Primary Sources

Historical Newspapers

America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. newspapers from all 50 states.
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text and full-image articles for significant big city newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.
Offers full text and full image articles for 13 large American daily newspapers and two daily British newspapers.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages (over 28 million articles) of primary source newspaper content from the 19th-century.
Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers.
African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Provides access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience.
Provides primary sources for such diverse disciplines as cultural, literary, and social history, ethnic studies, and more.
New York Times Historical (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue, with full-page and article images in PDF format. Includes photos, maps, graphics, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, comics, and political cartoons.
Contains the complete paper cover-to-cover of every issue prior to 2016, with full-page and article images in PDF format.
Washington Post Historical This link opens in a new window
The Washington Post offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Newspaper known for its national political coverage, international reporting, and investigative reporting (1877-1995).

Primary Source Databases

British Literary Manuscripts Online This link opens in a new window
Presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth century books and broadsides, Bibles, tract books and sermons, printed ephemera, and more.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Focuses on primary source collections including monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more.
C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes millions of nineteenth-century articles, books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers, and archives.

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