Alex Catalog of Electronic texts os a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Past topics have included everything from crime and national defense to arts funding and race. News Thorough archives going back several years. Lycos Top News Tracks news stories by topic and also allows searching of archives.
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News Choice Online Newspaper Network Search more than two dozen newspapers from around the U.S. using this page. See Ms. McLoughlin for password to login from home . The Television News Archive has systematically recorded, abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts since 1968. Although there is limited full-text here, it is excellent as a starting point, and as a timeline of modern history. The highly respected news program from PBS is on the Web, offering current news and transcript archives of past programs.