Newspapers
Big news - New York Times Online for Free, 1851-1922; 1981-1987 : http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html Both the US and English governments are committing to digitizing old newspapers now! US project: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ndnp.html (millions of pages, 1836-1922, first images ready by 2006). Update: more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published 1900-1910 : http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ . England: http://www.bl.uk/collections/britishnewspapers1800to1900.html (2 million pages, 1800-1900) British Library Online Newspaper Archive: http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/ (HORRIBLE interface, not accessible with Firefox, my browser of choice). US and world current newspapers : http://newslink.org/metnews.html , http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html , http://www.onlinenewspapers.com FREE, $$$ Newspaper Archives , most 1990+: http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/int