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• There are a couple of sources (Score:1)

  by jinx+ (1681)

  ...out there but I don't have any handy, sorry. I know someone has blog which publishes 100 year old papers every day, you might be able to Google for it and narrow the search to your range. I offer this though: newspapers have rarely, if ever, reflected reality. What we take for crackpottery in things the Enquirer were at times de rigueur. Go back and read some of what Jefferson had to say on the first US newspapers. To know history: letters, art critics, real figures of real goods and flow are much more

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  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Ovid (2709)

    I know that the quality of information from the media is pretty dubious, but the quality of historical reporting is also pretty dubious. Much of history is written from very biased perspectives. For example, many people are unaware that Neville Chamberlain was greeted as a hero in England after giving away part of Czechoslovakia to Germany (similar reactions existed in France). Not everyone had that reaction, of course -- Churchill was allegedly livid -- but today many people second-guess what happened y
• NY Times: TimesMachine (Score:1)

  by melo (332)

  I think this will do what you need, but I don't think its free:
  
  http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/the-new-york-times-archives-amazon-web- services-timesmachine/ [nytimes.com]
  
  Best regards,

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  life is short
• http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html (Score:1)

  by dug (2501)

  It's a work in progress and United States of America specific, but a nice piece of work so far.
  
  -- Douglas Hunter
  • Re:http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.htm (Score:1)

    by dug (2501)

    And now for the link in something other than the title bar: http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html [loc.gov]
• Irish Times (Score:1)

  by link (3402)

  The Irish Times are putting their archive online.
  
  The interface isn't great and I'm not sure how much international news they did.
  
  http://www.ireland.com/search/archive.html [ireland.com]
  
  You can view the articles via the interface or as PDF.
  http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1933/0131/Pg007.html#Ar00701 [ireland.com]
  http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/archive/1933/0131/Ar00701_pf.html [ireland.com]
• Scotsman (Score:1)

  by cyocum (7706)

  The Scotsman has their archive from 1817-1950 online [scotsman.com] now.