1865 – 1990 (Restricted to ODU)
The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) archive contains fully searchable scanned page images from microfilm for The Virginian-Pilot (1865 - 1989). Content can also be accessed from Access World News.
1851 - 2021 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
1889 - 2013 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
1877 - 2008 (Restricted to ODU)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
1822 - 2006 (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
The Sunday Times launched itself on the world on October 20, 1822, promising to instill "an invigorating spirit" in its readership, and uphold the freedom of the press against those "emperors, kings, and their ministers" who would stifle it. Since that first issue, the newspaper has consistently provided thoughtful analysis and commentary on the week`s news and society at large. Murder, theatre, sport and politics - all collide in its pages in an abundance of glorious narrative detail. In more than 800,000 pages, The Sunday Times Digital Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers and culture of the last 180 years.
The following are databases you can search to find historical newspaper content. In many cases, images and advertisements are available.
Gale NewsVault searches across nine of the databases listed in this section.
Coverage varies by database (Restricted to ODU)
Includes the following full text databases: Godey's Lady's Book, The Pennsylvania Gazette, The Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, African American Newspapers, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Catalogue: Chester County and The Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County.
1860 - 1865 (Restricted to ODU)
Contains articles from various 19th century newspapers on the Civil War.
(Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Contains local and regional voices reflecting the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. These newspapers were a crucial channel of information in towns and major cities, and provide researchers with a unique, first-hand perspective on history.