Full Text Online
Research Databases (that offer
full text or index historical newspapers)
Note some databases do not
offer full text of the articles. Use the
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to check our other resources for full text.
Accessible Archives
A good source for 19th Century American History;
includes newspapers on the Civil War and African
Americans.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text ethnic newspapers, searchable in English or
Spanish. A limited number of titles are available with
archives from the 1960's and 70's. Use the date limiter
in the search function to see if articles are available
for your time period and topic.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal, and reference information. Some newspapers are
available as far back as the 1970's. Check the date
range information in 'Sources'.
Los Angeles Times (1881-1985)
New
York Times Historical Collection (1851-2005)
ProQuest Newspapers
Includes coverage of over 300 major U.S. and
international newspapers, such as The New York Times,
Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune. Some go as far back
as 1983..
Times (London) Digital Archives
1785-1985
Provides access to the complete digital edition of The
Times (London). The entire newspaper is captured, with
all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos
divided into categories to facilitate searching.
US Newspapers Historical Collections
American Memory
from the Library of Congress
Provides digitized (frequently transcribed in text
as well) pages from some newspapers as well as many
other types of historical documents and records. Since
the collection is divided by topic area, use the general
search to look for your topic and the word 'newspaper'.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(1841-1902)
(developed by the Brooklyn Public Library.)
California Digital
Newspaper Project
Part of the Chronicling America Project (next item),
this provides access to the historical California
newspapers. Be aware that the digitization is ongoing
and not all areas and time periods are complete. The
search page also provides a link to browse the list of
titles and dates available.
Chronicling America from the Library of Congress and
National Endowment for the Humanities
This partnership has the admirable goal of digitizing
newspapers from all 50 states for 1836-1922. At this
point in its development, only selected states (CA, DC,
FL, KY, NY, UT and VA) are available and not for the
complete date range.
Publication and topical information is available for
papers published since 1690-present in a separate
section.
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
A digitization project to provide access to a wide
variety of newspapers. Offering keyword and title
access, view the "Newspapers Currently Available at CHNC"
to see titles and dates available.
Stars and Stripes
US Army newspaper for WWI soldiers in France. Covers the
dates February 8, 1918 through June 13,1919. This
title has been continued to present day, but this is the
only digitized historical collection to date.
Digital History: Historic Newspaper Articles
A small collection of
high interest articles from a variety of US papers,
searchable by topic or keyword. The collection starts
with the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision in 1857
through Princess Diana's death in 1997.
Georgia Historic Newspapers
Full page images of a number of Georgia newspapers.
Searchable dates are 1750 through 1925 in different
titles.
Hawaiian
Newspapers
These papers are in the Hawaiian language and range from
the mid-19th through early 20th centuries.
Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
A digitization project to provide access to a wide
variety of newspapers. The "Search" tab allows keyword
searching and the title pull-down allows you to see
titles available.
Historical Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
A limited, but growing, collection of digitized
articles. Currently available are articles from December
1941-January 1942 concerning Pearl Harbor and following
events.
Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Issues of the Daily Illini (University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign student paper) and Urbana Daily Courier
for the early 20th century are digitized. More to come.
Utah Digital Newspapers
From the University of Utah, a large number of digitized
articles with search capability in either all papers or
a specific page.
Valley of the Shadow
Newspapers of the Civil War period (1859-1870) published
in Virginia. Be patient, these are slow to load.
Vista Press (Vista and local area, California)
The range covered is 1926-1973. Each issue must be
browsed individually there is no search function and the
pdf search feature does not work.
Wyoming
Newspaper Project
A digitization project to provide access to a wide
variety of newspapers. Browse by city, county or
publication title as well as keyword search.
Foreign Newspapers
International News Historical Archives
Extensive list by region of newspapers from around the
world.
British Library
Online Collection
Selected images from five major British newspapers from
the mid-19th and early 20th centuries.
Alberta Newspaper Collection
(Canada)
Digitized microfilm of Canadian newspapers from
1885-2001. Not searchable, but can
limit by city and date ranges.
Australian Periodical Publications 1845-1850
Digitized newspapers and magazines
browsable by title and date or keyword searchable in
the table of contents for journals. One title, the
Colonial
Literary Journal and Weekly Miscellany of Useful
Information (6/1844-3/1845) has been fully
digitized.
Niupepa: Maori Newspapers (English version)
Digitized images or text of newspapers written for a
Maori (New Zealand) audience from 1842-1932.
Papers Past
(New Zealand)
19th Century New Zealand newspapers and periodicals.
There is no search capability, but click on "Browse
Publications" to see titles available and date ranges.
When you click on a title, a calendar of available dates
appears, click on the desired date to view articles
available. Requires download of specific software to
view the pages.
Tiden: Nordic Newspaper
Digital Library
Full text images of newspapers from Norway, Denmark,
Sweden, and Finland from 18th through 20th centuries.
Follow the 'Newspaper Archives' to links for each
national collection. Note the Norwegian collection is
NOT available in English and the Swedish collection
requires an ID (user) and password (user).
Special
Interest Newspapers
Argus Digital Collection
The Illinois Wesleyan University student newspaper for
1894-on.
Hollywood Reporter Archive
Must pay a subscription fee to access much of the full text, but the
archive will narrow the search to a date of publication.
Note the default search is for the past 3 months.
Indian Country Today Archive
Over six years of articles from one of the larger Native
American news sources.
Silent Worker
A national newspaper for the deaf from February 1888
through September 1929.
Miscellaneous Collections (not recommended for first
level research)
History Buff.com
a very small set of articles, generally to do with US
History. Difficult to maneuver through.
Newspaper Archive.com
It is necessary to register (free) for access to the
index or text of any articles. A list is available for
titles and dates covered through the "Browse Papers"
tab.
The Olden Times:
Historic Newspapers Online
A collection of selected articles primarily designed for
the genealogy researcher, but offers some categories of
use to the history researcher. Be aware the site page
opens to a very wide width so be sure you have looked at
the entire screen. No search engine available for the
site.
Small Town
Newspapers
Must register to search or access the content of a
variety of local publications. Check the "List All
Papers" link to see if there is a paper for your
geographic area.
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