Historic Newspapers
This list contains both digitized and transcribed historic newspapers.
- Arizona Digital Newspaper Program
- Boston Weekly Messenger (1811-1815 - download only)
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle - The Brooklyn Daily Eagle was published from 1841 to 1955, then revived for a short time from 1960 to 1963. This site covers the period from October 26, 1841 to December 31, 1902, representing half of the Eagle's years of publication. This period includes all of the years for which there is no index as well as the eleven years during which an index was published. Approximately 147,000 pages of newspaper in various digital formats are contained in this online repository. Access can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- The Capital - A Washington D.C. weekly newspaper founded by Donn Piatt in 1871, is a primary record of the American Reconstruction Period, one of the most momentous periods of U.S. history, when the nation sought to reconcile the trauma and devastation of the Civil War. This digital version of The Capital includes every issue published in volumes 1-9, from March 12, 1871 through February 22, 1880.
- Charleston City Gazette (1827-1830 - download only)
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress project that allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
- Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War - During the Second World War, the staff of the century-old Hamilton Spectator newspaper kept its own monumental record of the war. This collection of more than 144,000 newspaper articles, manually clipped, stamped with the date, and arranged by subject, includes news stories and editorials from newspapers, mostly Canadian, documenting every aspect of the war.
- Digital Library of Georgia Historic Newspapers
- Digital Military Newspaper Library - These newspapers represent Naval and Air Force bases from many geographical regions around the state of Florida and will include Kennedy Space Center, a submarine base at King’s Bay Georgia, the Panama Canal Zone, and two newspapers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- Digital Newspaper Collections from the University of Illinois
- FultonHistory - Started as a repository of New York newspapers (see below) but has expanded beyond New York. To browse, and for instructions, go to http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton_New_help.html.
- Historic Kentucky Newspapers
- Historic Oregon Newspapers
- Jacksonville (AL) Republican
- Minnesota Digital Newspaper Project
- Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
- Montana Newspapers - This full-text searchable database contains 361,568 pages from 47 Montana newspapers dated 1885-2014.
- Natchez Ariel (1825-1829 - download only)
- National Intelligencer (1805-1814 - download only)
- New Orleans Bee
- The New South (SC) Newspaper - Port Royal and Beaufort, SC
- New York Heritage New York Newspaper Project
- New York State Newspapers - From the Fulton NY project. Not particularly elegant, but access to a LOT of newspapers. Keyword searches can be made at http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton.html.
- Newspaper Archives of Cedar Rapids Public Library
- North Carolina military installation camp newsletters and newspapers from World War II.
- North Carolina Newspapers
- Princeton Historic Newspapers Collection - Contains the Campaign Dial (1864), Marine Corps Chevron (1943-1946), and Vozrozhdenie (1925-1939).
- Quincy (IL) Historical Newspaper Archive
- Richmond Daily Dispatch - Transcriptions of articles from the Richmond Daily Dispatch. There are currently 1384 issues of the paper available online, ranging in date from November 1860 through December 1865.
- Suffolk (NY) Historic Newspapers
- Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- Utah Digital Newspapers
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War - contains several Shenandoah Valley newspapers.
- Winona (MN) Newspaper Project