Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Ever wonder about Columbia's exciting historical newspapers collection?  So much journalism history is right at your fingertips, including titles like The (New York) Sun from which the famous declaration to eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon was written in 1897.  You can find this letter to the editor in The Sun in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, […]

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NewspaperARCHIVE

NewspaperARCHIVE database has been added to Columbia’s online newspaper collections.  This resource contains tens of millions of searchable historical newspaper pages, dating back to the 1700s, from across the globe.    Bookmark this resource using the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio7931419 […]

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New Database: African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998

Columbia University Libraries is pleased to announce a new e-resource, African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998, is now available in our database collection.  You can access African-American Newspapers at the following link: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio7464682 This collection continues to update on a monthly basis until its completion in late 2010. […]

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American Newspapers at Columbia University Libraries

Looking for a state-by-state list of all American newspapers available at Columbia University Libraries?  This comprehensive list, arranged by state and city of publication, is a great place to start!  It includes currently received paper issues, newspapers in microform, and newspapers available through our online database subscriptions. All call numbers (F, FA, FN, etc.) refer […]

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New York Review of Books Online

The online New York Review of Books includes full access to the archives, back to 1963! To access, just bookmark this link in your web browser: https://resolver.library.columbia.edu/clio5577883 (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates). Click on the “Archives” link at the top to access older contents, or browse the current issue from the main screen. […]

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All the News That’s Yellowing and Brittle – Historical Newspapers Online

Need newspaper articles that pre-date the stories in Factiva or Nexis (access restricted to current Columbia affiliates)? Curious what was happening in your neighborhood a century ago? Historical newspapers are proliferating on the web, so here’s a quick roundup of both plain text and scanned microfilm (actual page images) databases… ProQuest Historical Newspapers (access restricted […]

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