News and Newspapers: Newspapers by State
Regional U.S. Newspapers
Historical U.S. Newspapers by State
Digital historical U.S. newspapers by state
Regional Newspapers
- AL - Chronicling AmericaDigitized newspapers from 1830s-1950s.
- AK- Alaska's Digital Newspaper ProgramThousands of digitized newspapers from 1777-1963.
- AZ - Arizona Digital Newspaper CollectionSearchable database of 31 historical AZ newspapers from the 1850s to the 1920s
- AR- Arkansas HeritageThe Arkansas Digital Newspaper Project (ADNP) has digitized over 300,000 pages of newspaper content from the 1700s through 1963.
- CAN - Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World WarAn online searchable collection of over 144,000 newspaper articles relating to all aspects of the Second World War. Most newspapers are Canadian, and each article can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
- CO - Colorado's Historic Newspaper CollectionThis project includes digital versions of more than 100 newspapers from Colorado, dating from the 1850s to the 1920s. The database includes thousands of articles, graphics, letters to the editor, and advertisement
- CT- State LibraryThe Connecticut State Library is actively digitizing significant newspapers from 1690 through 1963.
- DE- Chronicling AmericaDigitized Delaware newspapers from 1756-1963 by the Library of Congress
- FL - Florida Digital Newspaper LibraryCurrent Florida newspapers, digitized from 2005 - present;Digital Military Newspaper Library - a pilot project for military newspapers published in Florida and the Caribbean; Historic Florida newspapers;Historic News Accounts of Florida
- GA - Georgia Historical NewspapersThe archive is free and open for public use and includes over two million Georgia newspaper pages between 1763 and 2021.
- HI- Hawaiian Newspapers CollectionThis is a digital collection of historic Hawaiian Newspapers, ranging from 1834 to 1980, that is made available through various collaborations and partnerships with the Awaiaulu, Bishop Museum, DL Consulting Ltd. & Ulukau. This database contains 12,724 issues comprising 72,178 pages and 417,352 articles.
- ID- Idaho Digital Newspaper ProjectResearchers can browse or keyword search articles spanning the period of 1863 to 1925 through Chronicling America.
- IL - Illinois Digital Newspaper CollectionsThe Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections are free to search, free to browse, and free to download.
- IN- Hoosier State ChroniclesA list of freely-accessible, historic, digitized Indiana newspapers organized by place of publication.
- IA- Iowa Digital Archive ProjectThe State Historical Society of Iowa has digitized more than 400,000 pages of historic Iowa newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program, which is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- KS- Kansas Historical Open ContentSearch newspapers by date, location and keyword.
- KY - Kentucky Digitized NewspapersSpans 19th Century-20th Century newspapers.
- LA- Louisiana Digital LibraryThe Louisiana Digital Library, which is available online to everyone, hosts dozens of active and historical Louisiana newspapers from 1824 to the present.
- ME- Maine Newspaper ProjectThis page provides access to papers digitized through the project as well as links to other sources of digitized newspapers.
- MD- Maryland State ArchivesThe Digital Newspapers page is the best way of finding and viewing all of the newspapers that the Maryland State Archives makes available online.
- MA- Newspapers at the BPLThe Boston Public Library contains current and historical Massachusetts newspapers, including ethnic newspapers.
- MI- Chronicling AmericaSearch newspaper pages digitized through the National Digital Newspaper Project or find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
- MN - Minnesota Digital Newspaper HubThe Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub is a searchable website from the Minnesota Historical Society that makes millions of pages of Minnesota newspapers available online.
- MS- Mississippi Department of Archives and HistorySearch by town, county and date.
- MO - Missouri Digital Heritage: NewspapersContains selected newspapers from Missouri that are searchable by individual title.
- MT- Montana Historical SocietyThe mission of the Montana Historical Society is to save Montana’s past, share our stories, and inspire exploration, to provide meaning for today and vision for tomorrow.
- NE- Nebraska NewspapersIt presents many resources relating to the state's papers and the history of Nebraska newspaper publishing, including searchable full-text of selected newspapers published as early as 1854.
- NV- Nevada Digital Newspaper ProjectThe program is a long-term effort to provide permanent access to a national digital resource of historic newspapers, selected and digitized by NEH-funded institutions from all U.S. states and territories.
- NH- New Hampshire Digital Newspaper ProjectThe New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project (NHDP) is a collaborative effort to select, digitize, and make publicly available historic New Hampshire newspapers.
- NJ- New Jersey Digital Newspaper ProjectThe New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project (NJDNP) was a collaboration of the Rutgers University Libraries, the New Jersey State Archives, and the New Jersey State Library.
- NM- Digital RepositoryFrom 2010 to 2015, New Mexico participated in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Over 200,000 pages of newspapers from around the state have been digitized.
- NC - State Archives of North CarolinaThe North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is a statewide digitization and digital publishing organization housed at UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library.
- ND- North Dakota's Historical NewspapersExplore nearly 150 years of North Dakota's history in papers from the past.
- OH- Ohio MemoryThe Ohio History Connection provides free access to over 1,000,000 full-text searchable pages of Ohio newspapers through Ohio Memory and the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America.
- OK- Oklahoma Digital Newspaper ProgramThe Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program exists to fulfill the goal of digitizing and making freely available as many Oklahoma-related newspaper titles as possible.
- OR- Historical Oregon NewspapersThis full-text searchable database contains over 2,400,000 pages from Oregon newspapers dated 1846 - 2023, and we are continually adding new titles.
- PA- Pennsylvania Newspaper ArchiveThe Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive is the gateway to the Commonwealth's historical full-text searchable newspaper database.
- RI- Rhode Island Digital Newspaper ProjectThe RI Digital Newspaper Project is an ongoing endeavor to make Rhode Island’s historic newspapers freely available online.
- SC- South Carolina Historical NewspapersThe Historical Newspapers of South Carolina repository provides online access to full text searchable historic newspapers originating in South Carolina since it became a state in 1788.
- SD- South Dakota State NewspapersThe South Dakota State Archives is partnering with the Minnesota State Historical Society on this project.
The project will allow for the digitization of close to 100 rolls of newspapers pre-dating 1922. - TN- Digital TennesseeHere, you can find Tennessee State Government publications, newspapers, online exhibitions, and resources for educators showcasing items held by the Library & Archives.
- TX- Texas Digital Newspaper ProgramThe Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) partners with communities, publishers, and institutions to promote standards-based digitization of Texas newspapers and to make them freely accessible via The Portal to Texas History.
- UT- Utah Digital NewspapersUDN currently offers 6.3 million pages from 374 newspapers.
- VT- Vermont NewspapersThe Vermont Department of Libraries has partnered with the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) to provide access to Vermont newspapers though Newspapers.com. These Vermont titles are freely available to Vermonters as part of the agreement. There are now over 1 million pages of Vermont newspapers available.
- VA- Virginia ChronicleVirginia Chronicle is a historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 4 million newspaper pages.
- WA- Washington Digital NewspapersWashington Digital Newspapers brings together over 600,000 pages from Washington’s earliest Territorial newspapers to the present day.
- WV- West Virginia and Regional History CenterThe West Virginia and Regional History Center holds an extensive collection of historical West Virginia newspapers dating from 1791 to the present.
- WI: Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe Wisconsin Historical Society connects people to the past by collecting, preserving, and sharing stories.
- WY- Wyoming Digital Newspaper CollectionThis collection contains 326,929 issues comprising 4,921,691 pages and 167,273 articles.
Advantage Archives
- Advantage ArchivesAdvantage partners with communities across the United State to archive & provide practical digital access to local historical content in print. Search by state, city, and title.