Research Guides: Find Newspapers: Historical US Newspapers

Access to Historical US Newspapers (pre-1980)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Access to newly added titles is guaranteed through May 2027
ProQuest Historical Newspapers contains many US and international newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, including the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Washington Post.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 contains African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
Note: As of August 2024, the Accessible Archives platform is now History Commons. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century contains information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, with reports on events , including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses. Starting with the Freedom`s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
America's Historical Newspapers provides searchable, scanned newspaper pages. The collection contains Early American Newspapers, Series 1-5 (1690-1922), Caribbean Newspapers (1718-1876), African American Newspapers, Series 1 (1827-1998), and The Civil War (1840-1877).
Associated Press Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Access guaranteed through May 2027
AP Collections Online offers decades' worth of wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, and more.
Black Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Black Historical Newspapers contains primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It covers the periods from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The Library of Congress provides digitized newspapers from 1777-1963 and information about all American newspapers published between 1690-present. Explore an interactive map and timeline of digitized collections.

Google News Archive
Google News Archive provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Search capabilities are very limited.

Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
Indigenous Newspapers offers publications from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
New York Times Full-Text / Full-Image (1851-2020) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers] This link opens in a new window
Incorporates the New York Times Index
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
19th Century U.S. Newspapers covers events, culture, and daily life in nineteenth-century America and features publications of all kinds, including major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests.
Pennsylvania Gazette 1728-1800 This link opens in a new window
The Pennsylvania Gazette provides the reader with a firsthand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of the periods. Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, it Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements.
Wall Street Journal Full-Text / Full-Image (1889-2001) [via ProQuest Historical Newspapers] This link opens in a new window
Wall Street Journal Full-Text contains complete text only coverage from the Wall Street Journal from 1889-2000.

Historical Newspapers on Microfilm

Reading Newspaper Articles on Microfilm

The Libraries maintains some newspaper holdings on microform. Use Journal Finder to determine if the Libraries own a particular newspaper title on microform.

Microfilm readers in the Charles Library are located on the first floor in the Special Collections Reading Room and next to the Community Computer Lab, to the left of the 13th Street entrance.

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