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JOUR 4650: American Journalism History: Pre-1800

Resources needed to complete assignments in JOUR 4650 American Journalism History. Links to digitized historical American newspapers.

Accessible Archives

Not all issues of these newspapers in the Accessible Archives database are available as images of complete pages.

At the main Accessible Archives search page, click on the Collections link near the top of the page. You'll see a list of all of the collections available in the Accessible Archives database.

Click on the title of the desired newspaper (see the list below). You'll see a page for the newspaper you chose.

Click on the Browse button. You'll see a list of available issues.

Choose an issue from the page for the newspaper you want to view and click on the red Articles link for that issue.

Then, click on the red Issue Images link for one of the list of articles. If that issue doesn't have an Issue Images link, it means that issue of the newspaper doesn't have images of the complete pages and you will need to choose another issue.

On the page that appears, choose the Page 1 Image link to see the first page of that issue.

 

This database includes the following 18th century newspapers:

18th Century Newspapers Freely Available on the Internet