This database combines biographies from several authoritative reference sources as well as full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
Answer your questions about news, events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 60+ years. A great place to for finding out what happened on a specific date in the past (such as your birthday!).
Newsbank 
(available in library only, see below for remote access)
Full text articles from over 600 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, not all newspapers are accessible from home (see below).
Newsbank - remote access
Full text articles from over 400 U.S. local, regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, and business journals, some from 1970-present. Includes full coverage of the Nashua Telegraph from 1998 to the present and the Union Leader from 1989 to the present. Due to contractual limitations, many newspapers, such as the Concord Monitor, are only accessible from within the library (see above).
In Newspaper Source you'll find newspaper articles as well as television and radio news transcripts.
This is the place to go for information about controversial issues, like the death penalty or cloning or gambling. It has articles, essays, statistics, and primary sources.
Find information about a current events topic, and it can also give you ideas if you're having trouble picking a current events topic to research.