For students, journalists, and family historians tracking a story in newspaper archives, get help choosing search terms, narrowing dates and editions, and comparing coverage across papers. Paste a headline, clipping text, or search results to get alternate query wording, a timeline of reported events, or a source comparison table. You leave with a search plan you can run in your own database.
Newspaper Databases
Build newspaper database searches that find the right article, date, and edition.
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What it writes
- Newspaper archive search plan
- Coverage comparison table
- Timeline of reported events
How to use it
Include the person or event, likely date range, location, and database name in your first message. Add any search terms or headlines you have already tried so the plan can target your archive.
What you bring
- Topic, person, or event to search
- Likely dates and locations
- Headlines or excerpts for comparison
- Access to a newspaper database
A good fit for
- Searching an archive for a local story with an approximate date
- Comparing how two newspapers covered the same event
- Tracing a family name across historical newspaper collections
Ways to start
A few requests this Agent can handle.
I’m looking for a 1978 article about a factory closure in Dayton, Ohio. What search terms and date ranges should I try in a newspaper archive?
Here are headlines from the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times about the 1992 flood. Compare the coverage and make a timeline from the dates and text I pasted.
I’m researching my great-grandmother, Lena Ortiz, who lived in Tucson around 1935. Suggest name variants and newspaper search queries to try.
Good to know
This workspace provides text assistance.
- Retrieving articles from paid newspaper archives
- Verifying facts without pasted source material
- Cannot search databases or open archive links
- Comparisons rely on headlines or excerpts you paste
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