Local Information Research Guide: Article Databases

*Contains electronic full text for articles appearing in The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

*Includes current articles and archives beginning on November 1999

*Contains the full text of articles appearing in several Tennessee newspapers and television news broadcasts

*Major newspapers from Clarksville, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga

*Covers many other news outlets with local, state, and regional topics

*Includes archives and current articles for most titles

*America's News (2021 edition) provides browsing and searchable full-text for over 3000 newspapers and news broadcasts from across the United States

*contains the full text of articles appearing in some Tennessee newspapers and newswires

*covers local, state, and regional topics

*includes archives and current articles for most titles

Peay Search (Primo from Ex Libris) is a discovery service that allows you to find and access information about a wide range of print and electronic resources all from a single search point. With Peay Search, you can search for books, journals and articles from our subscription databases digital repository (ASPIRE), open access resources, and more, all from one interface.

The Digital Library of Tennessee provides access to rare and unique primary sources housed in libraries, archives, and museums in the state of Tennessee. Explore photographs, letters, diaries, oral histories, maps, original art, music, material culture, and archival material that documents the cultural heritage of the state of Tennessee from the Pre-Columbian era to the present.

*includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses

*offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories \

*provides access to more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more

*Contains electronic full text for articles appearing in The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

*Includes current articles and archives beginning on November 1999

US Southeast Newsstream enables users to search the most recent regional news content, as well as archives which stretch back to the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. Southeast Newsstream covers news sources from Washington DC, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

The collection features publications of all kinds, from the political party newspapers at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the mammoth dailies that shaped the nation at the century's end. Every aspect of society and every region of the nation is found in the archive -- rural and urban, large cities and small towns, coast to coast, etc. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests.

Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists.

Tennessee papers include:
Chattanooga Daily Gazette (Chattanooga, TN)
Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, TN)
Chattanooga Advertiser (Chattanooga, TN)
Jonesborough Whig, and Independent Journal (Jonesborough, TN)
Memphis Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Nashville Union (Nashville, TN)
Maryville Republican (Maryville, TN)

A selection of other ewspapers included are:
New York Herald (NY)
Lynchburg Virginian (VA)
Pacific Commercial Advertiser (HI)
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
Southern Illustrated News (VA)
Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago)
Milwaukee Sentinel (WI)
The Bee (OH)
The Mountaineer (SC)

This online version of The Tennessean offers full-text coverage from 1812 to 2002 and 2010 to present (with a delay of several days). It includes the following options:

*The Tennessean is available online from 2010 to present through ProQuest Recent Newspapers. There is a delay of a few days, so they most recent issues will not be available. These issues include full scans of the physical newspaper in PDF format.

*The Nashville Tennessean is available online from 1812 to 2002 through ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Every issue includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in downloadable PDF format. The Tennessean began in publication 1907 but this service includes earlier titles such as the Nashville Whig and the Daily American. These papers reported not only Nashville-area news, but carried stories from around the state and the nation.

The default setting for this link searches both of these platforms together. To search only one option, click on the "Change Databases" link within the database interface.

*Contains the full text of articles appearing in several Tennessee newspapers and television news broadcasts

*Major newspapers from Clarksville, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, and Chattanooga

*Covers many other news outlets with local, state, and regional topics

*Includes archives and current articles for most titles