The New York Times is abstracted from 1969 and is full text starting on June 1, 1980. The Washington Post is full-text starting with 1977. These are only the text of the articles and do not include the advertisements, photographs and charts, or classifieds of the microfilm counterparts. The library has many news magazines like Time and Newsweek, and other popular magazines like TV Guide and Variety available on microfilm which will have year end review issues. Remember, just like the newspapers newspapers, the date on the magazine issue may not always match the events reported.
Yearbooks are also a good source to find the events of a year.
Although most of our yearbooks are now in the closed stacks of the library basement, the librarians will be glad to bring them to you if you ask. Arranged chronologically, each volume briefly summarizes the events of a year.