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Newspapers: Historical Newspapers - by title

California Newspapers - Online or Microfilm

Access to these resources is freely available to anyone in the library, but remote access is limited to UCSD faculty, staff, and students.

San Diego Newspapers:

  • Evening Tribune (San Diego) (1895-1924+)
    Full text and page images. Incomplete coverage of years and months within those years during first load of the database. Will eventually expand to 1928.

     
  • San Diego Union (1896-1926+)
    Full text and page images. Incomplete coverage of years and months within those years during first load of the database. Will eventually expand back to 1877 and forward to 1983. During earlier years includes earlier names such as San Diego Daily Bee and San Diego Union & Daily Bee.

     
  • San Diego Union Tribune    (1984-present) 
    Full text (but no images) of the Union-Tribune, and before the 1990 merger, of the separate San Diego Union and Evening Tribune. For page images, microfilm is available.

     
  • San Diego Union (Microfilm, XF 248)  (1871-present; before 1922 varying names; after 1990 San Diego Union Tribune)
    Microfilm provides cover-to-cover page images of all issues; however doesn't include the Evening Tribune before the 1990 merger.

Los Angeles Newspapers:

  • Los Angeles Times (Current) (1985-present). 
    Search and view full text  but no page images.
    Also available on microfilm (1986-2007) and digital microfilm (2008- )

     
  • Los Angeles Herald and Express (Microfilm, XF 2429) (1892-1944)
    Microfilm only. Known under various names, Los Angeles Herald, Evening Herald, Herald, Evening Herald and Express

     
  • Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-October 1941, 1946-2005)
    Full text, page and article images, part of Proquest's Black Historical Newspaper collection.

     
  • La Opinion (1933-1996)
    Microfilm provides cover-to-cover page images of all issues
    Microfilm XF 2181
    Selected full text but no page images from 1992-present through Ethnic Newswatch

Other Cities:

  • San Francisco Chronicle (Historical)  (1865-1922; most coverage before 1880 still incomplete)
    Full text, page and article images.
    San Francisco Chronicle (1985-present)
    Selected full text but no page images
    Also available on microfilm (1927-1980)
    Microfilm XF 2617
     
  • Daily Alta California (San Francisco) (1847-1891)
    Browse online through the California Digital Newspaper collection.
    Also available on microfilm, (1847-1891); newspaper appeared under variations of the name.
    Microfilm XF 2192

     
  • Sacramento Bee (1895-1983).
    Microfilm provides cover-to-cover page images of all issues
    Microfilm XF 2691
    Sacramento Bee (1984-present)
    Selected full text but no page images, online through Newsbank.

Other U.S. Historical Newspapers: Online or Microfilm

Access to these resources is freely available to anyone in the library, but remote access is limited to UCSD faculty, staff, and students.

Atlanta Constitution (1985- )
Selected full text, but no page images

Also available on microfilm (1868-1897)

Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
Full text, page and article images. Part of ProQuest's Black Historical Newspapers collection  

Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841-1902). Edited by Walt Whitman from 1846-1848. 

Chicago Defender (1910-1975)
Full text, page and article images. Part of ProQuest's Black Studies Center. 

Chicago Tribune (Historical) (1849-1987)
Full text, page and article images.
Chicago Tribune  (1986- )
Selected full text but no page images

New Orleans Daily Picayune (1837-1869)
SSH Microfilm XF 2316

New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
Full text, page and article images. Part of Proquest's Black Historical Newspapers collection

New York Times (Historical) (1851-2007)
Full text, page and article images.
New York Times (1980- )
Text only; no page images.
Also available on digital microfilm (2008- ; latest 2 months not included)


New York Tribune (1842-1922)
Full text, page and article images.

Wall Street Journal (Historical) (1889-1993)
Full text, page and article images.
Wall Street Journal (Current) (1985- )
Search and view full text, but no page images.
Also available in microfilm (1994-2008) and digital microfilm (2008- )

 

Washington Post (Historical) (1877-1994)
Full text, page and article images.
Washington Post (1977- )
Selected full text, no page images
Also available on microfilm (1995- ) and digital microfilm (2008- )