ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Louisville Courier-Journal

ProQuest Historical Newspapers This local, historical newspaper source provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts from the Louisville Courier-Journal and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Available content spans from 1830 through 2000, including not only articles but also editorials, comics, obituaries, classifieds, legal notices, and more. For researchers seeking an authoritative, regional perspective on national and international events, as well as local perspectives on community news, the full-text, digitized pages of this newspaper (1830–2000) are a valuable resource in a variety of fields including history, political science, African-American studies, and genealogy.

Relevant focus areas include:

  • African American Studies
  • Agriculture
  • American History
  • Culture
  • Economics
  • Genealogy
  • Government
  • History
  • Industrialization
  • Political Science
  • Sports
  • The US Civil War

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