ProQuest Offering Online Access to 80-Plus Years of the 'New York Tribune'

By: E&P Staff More than 80 years of the New York Tribune are being digitized by ProQuest.

People will have online access to Tribune issues dating from 1841 to 1922. Content during the early days of the paper included editorials by Horace Greeley that opposed slavery, encouraged settlement of the West, and more. The Tribune publisher helped form the Republican Party and ran for president in 1872.

The paper covered the Civil War, the fight for women's rights, the completion of the Panama Canal, New York society, the arts, sports, business, and other topics. Among its contributors were Margaret Fuller, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels.

Archives of the Tribune are cross-searchable with ProQuest Historical Newspapers, the huge digital collection of 19 million pages dating from 1764. The collection includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Hartford (Conn.) Courant, The Chicago Defender, the New York Amsterdam News, the Pittsburgh Courier, and many other newspapers.

Later this year, ProQuest will make available The Irish Times (1859-2006), the San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), and The Sun of Baltimore (1837-1922).

ProQuest's content is available to researchers via libraries.