Try finding a newspaper article!
Using the chronology linked above, pick an event that happened after 1851.
Search the New York Times to see if you can find an article that reports on the event within about a month of it happening. You may need to try different keywords and/or use the date limiters, and there's no guarantee that the NYT covered every event.
1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
If you have time, see if you can find a second article using one of the collections below.
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
1800-1900
American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
All states:
Western states:
Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period. To see if a specific newspaper is included in any of these collections, search for the title in the A-Z List of Journal Titles.
1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
1789-1924
Historical newspapers from the Library of Congress, including Nevada newspapers.
1931-2010
Black newspaper from Georgia that was the first in the US to publish a daily edition.
1893-2010
Black newspaper from Maryland that was the first to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
1909-2010
African American newspaper from Chicago, Illinois.
1849-2014
Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
1934-2010
Black newspaper from Ohio that played a prominent role in encouraging political participation, Black solidarity and self-reliance.
1934-2010
Black newspaper from California; the oldest and largest black newspaper in the West.
1881-2015
Historical California newspaper.
1939-2010
Black newspaper from Detroit that documents African American culture, history, politics, and the arts.
1922-2010
Black newspaper from New York that was the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.
1851-2020
Historical New York newspaper.
1916-2010
Black newspaper from Virginia known for in depth research.
1912-2010
Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that is the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the US.
1911-2010
Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that had a circulation of over 250,000 subscribers.
1877-2007
Daily newspaper from Washington, DC.
Newspapers including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009); also includes selected 20th century newspapers from St. George, UT, and Tulare County and Salinas, CA.
1800-1900
American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.
