The Libraries now offer campus-wide access to the Wall Street Journal online through WSJ.com. UofA users must create a personal account to access current news stories, with a news archive back to December 1997, facsimile editions of the print WSJ, podcasts, videos, topic-specific newsletters, and a mobile app.
The Libraries now offer access to Early American Newspapers: Series I, a collection of papers published from the colonial era to the mid-nineteenth century. Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 invaluable American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. Providing unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, Early American Newspapers, Series 1, enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
The Arkansas State Archives is participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) to digitize and make available dozens of Arkansas newspapers.
The NDNP project is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) to provide free online access to historic newspapers from across the United States and U.S. territories.
The Arkansas State Archives began work on the NDNP project in 2017 and to date has coordinated the digitization of newspapers from more than 25 counties. All newspapers can be searched and viewed on the Library of Congress' Chronicling America site.
Chronicling America newspapers can be found in OneSearch; for articles and page images of those papers, visit the Chronicling America website.
NewspaperArchive.com frequently posts tips on conducting research in historical newspapers. Here are some recent posts:
