News and Newspapers: Historical U.S. Newspaper Collection
Historical U.S. Newspapers
Historical U.S. Newspaper Collection
Digital historical U.S. minority newspaper collection, Chronicling America, Proquest Historical newspapers and miscellaneous newspapers collection.
Major Dailies - Proquest Historical Newspapers
The Proquest Historical Newspapers offer full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. Each newspaper collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Users can cross-search titles.
- Atlanta Constitution, 1868-1984 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2003 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Atlanta world (1931-1932) and the Atlanta daily world (1932-2003).
- Boston Globe, 1872-1991 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Chicago Defender, 1909-1975 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text.
- Chicago Tribune, 1849-2000 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowContains full-text access to the Chicago Tribune dating from 1849-2000.
- Des Moines Register (1871-) This link opens in a new windowPart of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers (HNP) Iowa Collection.
- Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Guardian and The Observer, 1791-2003 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Coverage includes all titles of these newspapers. Observer (London, England) (1791- ) and The Manchester guardian and British volunteer (1925-1828), Manchester guardian (Manchester, England : 1828) (1828-1959), Guardian (Manchester, England) (1959- ). [Not compatible with Internet Explorer 9]
- Iowa City Press Citizen (1965-) This link opens in a new windowPart of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers (HNP) Iowa Collection.
- Iowa Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. State Collections empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. Includes:
Des Moines Register, 1871-2008
Iowa City Press Citizen, 1965-2008 - Jerusalem Post, 1932-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on 1 December 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post in the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate period, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post.
- Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2005 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005).
- Los Angeles Times, 1881-1999 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Los Angeles Times (1881-1999) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Minneapolis Star Tribune, 1867-2001 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- New York Amsterdam News, 1922-1993 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the New York Amsterdam news (1922-1938), New York Amsterdam news (1938-1941 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1943-1961 : City ed.), New York Amsterdam news (1962-1993), New York Amsterdam star-news (1941-1943), and the New York star & Amsterdam news (1941-1941).
- New York Times, 1851-2019 (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to the New York Times from 1851 (New York Daily Times) to 2019.
- Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2002 (Proquest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers Collection) This link opens in a new windowThis database provides full page and article images with searchable full text from the Courier (1950-1954 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1969-1981 : City ed.), New Pittsburgh courier (1981-2002), Pittsburgh courier (1911-1950 : City ed.), and Pittsburgh courier (1955-1965 : City ed.).
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1874-2003 (Proquest Historical newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
- Times of India, 1838-2010 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Times of India (1838-2010) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Wall Street Journal, 1889-2013 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Wall Street Journal (1889-2013) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
- Washington Post, 1877-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Washington Post (1877-2008) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
Chronicling America
- Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersChronicling America is an open access database of over 13 million historic American newspapers published between 1690 and 1963.
Other Historical U.S. Newspapers and Newspaper Collections
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull-text content and images from a range of urban and rural newspapers throughout the U.S., with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture, Western migration and Antebellum-era life.
- 20th Century American Newspapers, Series 1 This link opens in a new window20th-Century American Newspapers provides access to the issues of major U.S. newspapers published after 1922. Series 1 includes: Times-Picayune, 1923-1988 (New Orleans), Oregonian,1923-1987 (Portland), and the Plain Dealer, 1923-1991 (Cleveland).
- American Prison Newspapers, 1800s to PresentAmerican Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women-only institutions.
- Google's Historical NewspapersFree access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to 18th century. There is a timeline view available, to select news from various years.
- Historical Iowa City NewspapersThis archive covers newspapers in the Iowa City area from 1840 to 1929, made accessible through the Iowa City Public Library.
- Newspapers.com Library Edition-Iowa newspapers This link opens in a new windowHistorical newspapers dating from the early 1700s into the early 2000s (not current). Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full runs and portions of runs of around 150 Iowa newspapers
- Student ActivismThe collection will capture the voices of students across the great range of protest, political actions, and equal-rights advocacy from the 20th and early 21st century United States. The primary sources intended for inclusion will be broad-based across time, geography, and political viewpoint — from the conservative to the anarchist.
- Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3 and 6-7 This link opens in a new windowFor searching and browsing American newspapers published in the 17th,18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 is the most comprehensive online resource available. This expanding collection offers fully searchable digital facsimiles of more than 1,500 titles from all 50 states. With eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, matrimony and death notices and more, Early American Newspapers provides a chronicle of the evolution of American history, culture and daily life across three centuries.
Minority Voices- Historical U.S. Collection
- African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new windowComplete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day, as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays, editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
UI access includes Parts I - XII. - African American Newspapers Series 1 and 2 This link opens in a new windowIncludes Series 1 (1827-1998) AND Series 2 (1835-1956). Part of the Readex America's Historical Newspapers collection, African American Newspapers is a record of African American history, culture, and daily life. Covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement and more
- African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new windowFeatures more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals by and about African Americans. Published in 26 states, the publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.
- Black Periodicals: From the Great Migration through Black PowerBlack Periodicals: From The Great Migration through Black Power, the final collection for Diversity & Dissent, will include periodicals that depict the various political, literary, and cultural forms that Black Americans used to advance their vision in the ongoing struggle for liberation and dignity. Access through Reveal Digital and JSTOR.
- Black PerspectiveBlack Perspective, published from April 1972 - October 1974, was a student-initiated cultural publication intended to share information for Blacks, by Blacks, on the Lehman College campus. Access provided by JSTOR.
- Chicago Defender (Black Studies Center) This link opens in a new windowThe full text backfile of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender is available through the Black Studies Center site. It includes the Saturday edition (1910 to 1975) and the Daily edition (1956-1975).
- Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847-1874This online collection presents newspapers edited by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), the African American abolitionist who escaped slavery and became one of the most famous orators, authors, and journalists of the 19th century. Access provided by Library of Congress.
- Slavery & Anti-Slavery, A Transnational Archive This link opens in a new windowIn addition to the standard primary sources one would expect—newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, for example—SAS includes a broad selection of documents from several different archives.
Includes Parts I-IV.
- densho.orgDigital archive dedicated to preserving the testimonies of Japanese Americans during WWII. Includes historical images, newspapers and oral history.
- Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers 1942-1946Produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps. Access provided by the Library of Congress.
- Japan Times Archives This link opens in a new windowThe Japan Times Archives includes every issue of the newspaper published between 1897 and 2019 — “an English-language version of the first draft of Japan’s modern history.”
- South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new windowPublished by Readex in partnership with the Center for Research Libraries.South Asian Newspapers is the third collection module of the World Newspaper Archive, created in partnership with Readex, a division of NewsBank. It will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922.
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new windowHispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century.
- Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThe Independent and Revolutionary Mexican Newspapers collection traces the evolution of Mexico during this pivotal period. Comprising over 1,000 titles from Mexico’s pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929), the newspapers in this collection provide rare documentation of the dramatic events of this era and include coverage of Mexican partisan politics, yellow press, political and social satire, as well as local, regional, national and international news. While holdings of many of the newspapers in this collection are available only in very short runs, the titles are often unique and, in many cases, represent the only existing record of a newspaper’s short-lived publication.
- Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922 This link opens in a new windowSearchable collection of historical newspapers from around the world. Begins with Latin American newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries. Forthcoming are African, European, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Southeast Asian newspapers. Can be cross-searched with collection: America's historical newspapers. Parts I & II.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new windowOur subscription includes LGBTQ History parts I and II. This resource Illuminates the experiences not just of the LGBTQ community as a whole, but of individuals of different races, ethnicities, ages, religions, political orientations, and geographical locations that constitute this community. Features historical records of political and social organizations founded by LGBTQ individuals, as well as publications by and for lesbians and gays, and extensive coverage of governmental responses to the AIDS crisis. Includes gay and lesbian newspapers from more than 35 countries, reports, policy statements, and other documents related to gay rights and health, including the worldwide impact of AIDS, materials tracing LGBTQ activism in Britain from 1950 through 1980, and more. Documents span from 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990.
- Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press. This link opens in a new windowIndependent Voices is a four-year project to digitize over 1 million pages from the magazines, journals and newspapers of the alternative press archives of participating libraries.
- WICCE: A Lesbian, Feminist Newspaper (1975)Reproduction of the originals from The National Women's History Project.
- 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThis database consists of the British Library's collection of the newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by Reverend Charles Burney. Although the majority is published in London, there are some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies. It includes over 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Historical Jewish PressThe Historical Jewish Press website brings the data and Digital Humanities revolution to this field and offers the possibility to perform a full search of all the published text of a given newspaper throughout all the years of its publication.
- Jerusalem Post, 1932-2008 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThe Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on 1 December 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post in the British Mandate of Palestine. During the Mandate period, the publication supported the struggle for a Jewish homeland in Palestine and openly opposed British policy restricting Jewish immigration. In 1950, two years after the State of Israel was declared, the paper was renamed The Jerusalem Post.
- Middle East and North Africa: Global Perspectives, 1958-1994 This link opens in a new windowOffers fresh insight into one of the world’s most complex and volatile regions. It is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex factors that gave rise to modern terrorist organizations as well as regional civil wars, revolutions, border issues and more
- Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers This link opens in a new windowThe Middle Eastern & North African Newspapers collection includes publications from across this dynamic region, providing unique insights into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events from the late nineteenth century through the present. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, twentieth-century pan-Arab movements, both World Wars, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring.
- American Indian Digital History ProjectThe American Indian Digital History Project is a Digital History Cooperative founded to recover and preserve rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials from all across Native North America. The project seeks to increase access to historical Tribal documents in order to encourage accurate and responsible American Indian research. Furthermore, the project will be seeking partnerships with Tribal governments and archives to create a digital repository for local Tribes.
- American Indian Histories and Cultures This link opens in a new windowExplore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers right up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps and travel journals.
- American Indian Newspapers This link opens in a new windowNearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism in the US and Canada from historic pressings to contemporary periodicals. Developed with, and made possible by, the permission and contribution of the newspaper publishers and Tribal Councils concerned.
- Cherokee PhoenixThe Cherokee Phoenix, famed as the first American Indian newspaper to be published in the United States in 1828.
- Indian School JournalIndian School Journal, 1904-1926 (National Archives Identifier 1105265) was published by students and printed at Chilocco Indian School.
- Indigenous Newspapers in North AmericaFrom historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada.
- Native American TimesThe Native American Times was a statewide newspaper Tahlequah, Oklahoma which began print circulation in December 2009.
- Navajo TimesEvery newspaper in the database is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy to quickly explore historical content.
- Independent Voices: Feminist PublicationsOver 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Access through Reveal Digital.
- The LilyThe Lily, one of the first newspapers for women, spans 1849 to 1856. Available through Accessible Archives.
- Revolution New York (1868-1871)Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 This link opens in a new windowThis website is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. women’s history and U.S. history more broadly. Loosely organized around the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000, the site seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding of U.S. history while making the insights of women’s history accessible to scholars and students at universities and colleges.
Farm, Fields and Fireside: Agricultural Newspaper Collection
- Farm, Fields and FiresideFrom the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, this collection is a repository of digital facsimiles of historic agricultural newspapers published in the United States.To date, the repository contains more than 230,000 pages of farm newspapers, with another 70,000 pages in the works. More titles will be added to the repository as funding becomes available.