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Jessie Ball duPont Library

Biography: Obituaries, Interviews, Articles

Journal Finder

Looking for a specific newspaper title? The Journal Finder includes newspapers.

The Journal Finder will tell you if the library has the newspaper.  Make sure to see if we have the year you need.  If we have the newspaper in print, it will link to the library catalog and give you a call number to help you find it on the shelves.  If we have access online, it will link to the resource that contains the newspaper.

Obituaries, Interviews, Articles

  • InfoTrac Newsstand     
    A full-text newspaper database that provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world
  • LexisNexis Academic  
    Find interviews, obituaries, and news articles in national and international newspapers, news sources, TV and radio broadcast transcripts, web publications, and blogs.
  • New York Times (ProQuest)
    Coverage of the U.S. paper of record. For older material, use New York Times Historical.
  • New York Times Historical
    Complete, full-text archive of the NYT 1851-2007. Click on "More Options" to use the limit by document type to retrieve obituaries or articles.
  • Washington Post
    Full text of the current paper, 1977-present. Use Washington Post Historical for older articles.
  • Washington Post Historical
    Complete, full-text archive of the Washington Post, from its first issue on December 6, 1877 through 1994.
  • OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson)
    Provides full text of articles from approximately 2,700 publications (many of them peer-reviewed.) Also includes abstracts and indexing from over 4,000 publications. Covers every core undergraduate subject (sciences, humanities, social sciences, business, and education) as well as cross-disciplinary areas such as ethnic studies, women’s studies, history. 1982 to present.
    Readers' Guide Retrospective
  • Use this article database to search for a wide range of topics from general interest and popular magazines of the past (1890-1982), such as the Saturday Evening Post and Life.
  • Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 
    A full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds — virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level and users may view the article — or the full page upon which it appeared.