LAW 8308: History of Anglo-American Legal Institutions: Historical Newspapers

Contains thousands of American newspapers from 1690 and all 50 states. Includes many obscure local newspapers, but provides few major national papers

Features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737, are presented in digitized format here. The collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into seventeenth and eighteenth century England.

Available online through SMU Libraries' Digital Collections. The Daily Campus's current website includes articles back to at least 2002.