Provides extensive news coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. Features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, and offers searchable news video clips and over two thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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Newspaper articles and obituaries are good sources for finding background information about an individual. Articles written about individuals will provide details about their lives, whereas obituaries will list helpful biographical information, such as: birth date and birth place; names of spouses, children, parents, siblings, etc.; education; careers; life interests and hobbies; and more. Sometimes the obituary includes a photograph. Depending upon the year of death, there may still be living relatives that could be contacted, but discuss this option first with your professor to make sure it is an appropriate approach.
Below are links to current and historic newspapers, as well as a link to the Denver Public Library's index to obituaries in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. The DU Libraries has the complete run of the Denver Post online (1894-present), but not the Rocky Mountain News (1990-2009). If your obituary isn't in the online Rocky Mountain News, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan.
You can also search the internet using a web browser to see if you can find an obituary. Mortuaries and local newspapers may offer obituaries online, and these can include photographs and even comments from people who knew the individual.
Searching the open web may also retrieve other types of documents, such as high school yearbook pictures. If you know which college the individual attended, that university may have digitized their school newspapers and yearbooks.
SELECTED historical newspaper titles in alphabetical order are listed below. For the full list, click on link above.
This resource contains national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada from 1828-2016, including some bi-lingual and Indigenous-language editions.
Provides news, business, features, sports and an editorial section for the region and has bureaus throughout the state of Colorado and in Washington, D.C.
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