Read old Magazine and Newspaper Articles Online

Do you want to read your old magazine back from your high school? are you feeling nostalgic and want to remember good ol days? Or do you want to go back in time and see how the technology was back in the time? A few decades ago, If you wanted to access something from magazines and newspapers that were more than a couple of years old, it was necessary to visit a library that maintained archives of the actual publications. For accessing these magazines ore newspapers to get that last detail, if you visited any library then it would have taken hours and hours to find the actual magazine or newspaper you wanted. Even then you cannot say for sure that it would have the exact information that you need

Don't worry. This is the information age and as long as you have a device with internet connection (which I assume you have  since you are already reading this article), You do-not need to go anywhere else. This article will give you many different and best ways to find old magazine and news paper articles online.Old newspapers and  magazines offer a wealth of insight into history and critical events as they were unfolding at that time.Now you can get all that without the need for going to a Library. You can have them from the comfort of your browser

 How to Read Old Articles # 1: Google News 

Want to Read whats happening - Simplest way is go to Google News.Google news is the simplest free website to read news from all corners of the world. This is an excellent choice for reading about current happenings from around the globe but you can also use this to Read old news, articles and stories.

Google News indexes thousands of newspaper websites from around the world and organizes news in clusters for easy reading. In addition to current news, Google News also offers access to stories published in old newspapers that you can search for free.Although many of these newspaper issues are scanned images of the original printed version, you can use Google search to find stories inside the papers through the magic of OCR.Google does optical character recognition (OCR) on documents that it indexes and identifies as scanned PDFs. The actual content is hosted on other sites and Google will show if it cost any money to read that issue /news story.

How to Read Old Articles #2 Google Books 

If you’re looking for an older issue of a magazine, Google Books might be the best place to find it. Google Books is no longer limited to just books, 

But Google offers a vast arrays of magazines for you to Search. These magazines are scanned and searchable and can be read online using the standard Google Book interface. Decades worth of material are available, and the magazines are laid out just as they were when they were originally printed. You can read archived magazines cover to cover, including the original articles, index, cover, and advertisements. Unlike some of the book results, magazines found through Google's book search are offered as full articles—helpful for performing that last tidbit of research online without hiking to a library in the dead of night. 

How to Read Old Articles # 3 Trove 

Trove is an online searchable database from The National Library of Australia. The news available here can be read by anyone for free. These newspapers can be viewed on any of the modern browsers.

Trove

Trove has a large selection of newspapers from across Australia archived online that anyone may read for free.   All the newspapers are completely scanned and can be viewed online in any modern browser, or you may download them as a PDF for offline reading.

How to Read Old Articles # 4. Library of Congress 

The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress, but which is the de facto national library of the United States. The Library of Congress has a large repository of historic newspapers published in America between 1880 and 1922, available as PDFs.

The Library of Congress has made digitized versions of collection materials available online since 1994, concentrating on its most rare collections and those unavailable anywhere else. If you are not able to find it anywhere else, you are most likely to find it here. Additionally, the site has a database of records of all newspapers printed in America from 1690 to the present, including newspapers that are currently not published.

How to Read Old Articles # 5 : Wayback Machine 

The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet created by the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization, based in San Francisco, California. It was set up by Brewster Kahle and Bruce Gilliat, and is maintained with content from Alexa Internet. 

Simply enter a news website address into the search box (nytimes.com for example), and the Wayback machine will show you a list of snapshots of  that site. You can then read the news as it appeared on that day. It also includes collections of news articles from major events like 9/11 attacks.This historic collection is invaluable to scholars trying to understand the interactions between people and events. Currently this sites has about 400 Billion Web pages saved!

How to Read Old Articles # 6 The Olden Times 

If you’re looking for a popular article about a major historical event, the Olden Times may be a good place to look for it. Although they do not contain entire newspapers, they do have snippets including popular news articles, print advertisements, and personal information sections such as births and obituaries. 

You can find Old obituaries, birth & marriage announcements, old news stories,  old advertising, recipes, cartoons , humor, and more  All content is free, and the content ranges from between 1788 and 1920.

How to Read Old Articles # 7 Newseum 

Here you can find and download front pages of hundreds of newspapers from around the world and the newspaper gallery is updated every day. Every morning, more than 800 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the Newseum via the Internet to be part of Today's Front Pages.You can read articles by opening a scalable PDF file or by clicking a link directly to the newspaper's website.

The collection includes small-town and local newspapers as well as globally-distributed big papers. They also maintain an archive of newspaper front pages belonging to dates of significant importance (for example, see the September 11 archive, or Government shutdown of 2013 or the birth of Royal Baby).

How to Read Old Articles # 8 OMA

Old Magazine Article.com is a privately owned and operated Website based out of Los angeles which is like The Olden Times but for past magazine issues. Old Magazine Articles contains magazine pages covering from famous historical events. 

All the primary source content that appears on the site is a digital facsimile of the original, presented in PDF format in order that the users will be able to save the files or email them to friends. The articles can be downloaded as PDF files for free though they have been mildly edited to remove advertisements from the original magazines. If you want to print the article though, you have to pay a fee of $6.00. After paying, the printable version is faxed or emailed to the User. Teachers and schools may pay a flat fee of $30.00 (U.S.) per year to have articles emailed or faxed. The Old articles, essays, poetry, cartoons and photographs that can be found on the site have all been collected from a number of different libraries, bookshops and yard sales throughout the United States and Europe

How to Read Old Articles # 9 Newspaper ARCHIVE 

NewspaperArchive.com is a commercial online database of digitized newspapers. The site was launched in 1999 by its parent company, Heritage Microfilm, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This is the world’s largest online archive of historical newspapers published from 1753 onwards.  You can browse newspaper issues by date or find articles that match a particular phrase.

Newspaper Archve costs $9.99 a month if you subscribe for an year. NewspaperArchive.com currently provides full text search for 909 million articles on 85 million pages over 240 years that represents 2,875 publication titles in more than 748 cities.This includes newspapers from Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.

How to Read Old Articles #10 Ancestry.com 

Although Ancestry.com is designed for building family trees or for finding information about your ancestors, its archives also includes thousands of newspapers and periodicals dating back to the 1700′s. Subscriptions start at $19.95/month or $12.95/month if paid per year.