A source like Newsstream is great for finding news from the 1980s -present, but if you need articles from a different time period, search the links below.
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.
Search here and limit by publication date to find articles from journals and magazines from 1890-1982.
Reports on popular topics from 1923-present.
Allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) is a tool that facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
Wikipedia entry that provides links to many online newspaper archives, from the U.S. and abroad, organized by location.
icrofilm is a way to preserve printed material so that it takes up less space and can last for hundreds of years.
If you have the citation information for a historic newpaper or magazine article:
Or, if you have a very specific time period in mind, you can look at the microfilm version of a newspaper or use the index, like the index to the New York Times, to find historic articles on your topic.