There are many different newspapers collected at SCU Library. There are many physical newspapers in the Archives and Special Collections (see the page on Archives), but most newspapers in the University Library are digitized and you can search and read them online just like a journal article.
Some very prominent newspapers have their own collections, such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or San Francisco Chronicle. Some smaller newspapers are collected in general historical newspaper databases. Use the same techniques to search these databases that you would for JSTOR or Academic Search Complete by using multiple key words and filters.
Remember to check your citation guide to use the format for citing newspapers.
Below is a list of suggested newspaper databases for this class.
Huge backfiles of an amazing array of old magazines are available through Google Books. You can see a list here:
https://books.google.com/books/magazines/language/en
The issue you see in that list appears to be the most recent issue available, so, to see how far back they go and more easily browse by date, click on About this magazine under the magazine picture. It's a very odd mixture of thing, but there's some buried treasure along with the curiosities (Weekly World News!!). Here's a few titles worth getting excited about & the year of the earliest issue: Billboard (1942), Boy's Life (1911), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1945), The Crisis (1911), Ebony (1959), Jet (1951), Life (1936), Popular Science (1910), Yoga Journal (1975).
Another strategy for finding digitized anything about a specific place is to look at the website for the public library or a university library in the area of interest.
You can thank genealogy researchers for two other potentially very valuable resources for collections of digitized newspapers -- from Ancestry.com you get Newspapers.com and then there is Newspaper Archive. In both cases, you can sign up to get free access for 7 days in each case, so, plan accordingly!
Below are some additional projects around newspapers.
This is an amazing resource! You can identify a paper by its title or geographic home. The years available, the method of access, the ability to keyword search, all vary from paper to paper. You are not going to find anything quickly in here, but it is a true GOLDMINE if you are researching a topic related to African American history!!
This is a directory of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 which can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them. It also allows you to search a database of pages from over 3500 newspapers published from 1777-1963.
A good way to find newspaper digitization projects is to do a Google search formatted like this:
[name of a state] newspaper archives
as in:
virginia newspaper archives
Uniquely California!
Thank UC Riverside for the California Digital Newspaper Collection. There are real jewels in here. Best way to find what is available is to BROWSE by Date or County