LibGuides: Historical Newspapers: United States

Free newspaper archives

All states:

Elephind
Search across online newspaper collections including many state collections, many of the Library of Congress Chronicling America newspapers, and Australian and New Zealand collections.
Google News Archive
Independent Voices
Alternative press newspapers focusing on the 1960’s – 1980s.

Western states:

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Lists of microfilmed and online newspapers

At UNLV

U.S. Newspapers on Microfilm
UNLV list of journal and newspaper titles
Search for the name of a specific newspaper here to see if it is available in any of UNLV's subscription databases.

Online

Wikipedia list of online historical newspaper archives
BGSU U.S. Newspaper list
List of free online US newspapers (last updated 6/2019)

City and Business Directories

City and Business Directories: Alabama, 1837-1929
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City and Business Directories: Arkansas, 1871-1929
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City and Business Directories: Florida, 1882-1929
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City and Business Directories: Louisiana, 1805-1929
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City and Business Directories: Maryland, 1752-1929
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City and Business Directories: Mississippi, 1860-1929
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City and Business Directories: North Carolina, 1886-1929
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City and Business Directories: Tennessee, 1849-1929
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City and Business Directories: Virginia, 1801-1929
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City and Business Directories: West Virginia, 1839-1929
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases: California
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Illinois
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Pennsylvania
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Wisconsin
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Indiana History
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Kansas History: Territorial through Civil War, 1854-1865
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United States historical newspapers searchable online

Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period. To see if a specific newspaper is included in any of these collections, search for the title in the A-Z List of Journal Titles.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century This link opens in a new window
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1827-1902
African-American newspapers including The Colored American, all of Frederick Douglass’ newspapers, The Freedmen’s Record, and more.
America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1690-1923
Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America This link opens in a new window
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1828-2016
Includes national periodicals as well as local community news and student publications from an Indigenous perspective.
American Underworld: The Flash Press This link opens in a new window
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1828-1876
Newspapers with sensational coverage of crime, scandal, brothels, gambling and blackmail in New York and eastern U.S. cities. Includes reviews of bawdy theatrical performances and reports on sporting events such as cock-fighting, boxing and horse racing.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
1789-1924
Newspapers from the Library of Congress, including Nevada newspapers.
Civil War 1860-1865: A Newspaper Perspective This link opens in a new window
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1860-1865
Newspaper reports of major events of the Civil War covered by both Union and Confederate sources.

Confederate Newspapers: A Collection from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama (1861-1865)
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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1959-
Articles, editorials, and reviews from the ethnic, minority, and native press.
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Designed to provide the "other side of the story," ENW titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
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1808-1980
Newspapers published by Hispanic-American communities primarily in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas and New York.
Historical Black Newspapers from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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1893-2010
African American newspapers from Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Norfolk VA., Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World, 1931-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1931-2010
Black newspaper from Georgia that was the first in the US to publish a daily edition.
Historical Newspapers: Baltimore Afro-American, 1893-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1893-2010
Black newspaper from Maryland that was the first to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender, 1909-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1909-2010
African American newspaper from Chicago, Illinois.
Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune, 1849-1998 This link opens in a new window
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1849-1998
Cover to cover digital reproductions of the Chicago Tribune with searchable full text.
Historical Newspapers: Christian Science Monitor, 1908-2007 This link opens in a new window
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1908-2007
Articles and images from The Christian Science Monitor newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: Cleveland Call and Post, 1934-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1934-2010
Black newspaper from Ohio that played a prominent role in encouraging political participation, Black solidarity and self-reliance.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel, 1934-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1934-2010
Black newspaper from California; the oldest and largest black newspaper in the West.
Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times, 1881-2014 This link opens in a new window
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1881-2014
Historical California newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: Michigan Chronicle, 1939-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1939-2010
Black newspaper from Detroit that documents African American culture, history, politics, and the arts.
Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1922-2010
Black newspaper from New York that was the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.
Historical Newspapers: New York Times, 1851-2017 This link opens in a new window
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1851-2017
Historical New York newspaper.
Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune, 1841-1922 This link opens in a new window
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1841-1922
Full text of New York Tribune, 1841-1922.
Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1916-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1916-2010
Black newspaper from Virginia known for in depth research.
Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune, 1912-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1912-2010
Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that is the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the US.
Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier, 1911-2010 This link opens in a new window
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1911-2010
Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that had a circulation of over 250,000 subscribers.
Historical Newspapers: Washington Post, 1877-2004 This link opens in a new window
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1877-2004
Text and images from The Washington Post
Historical Newspapers: West Regional Collection This link opens in a new window
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Newspapers including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009); also includes selected 20th century newspapers from St. George, UT, and Tulare County and Salinas, CA.
Las Vegas Review Journal Archive (1929-1996) This link opens in a new window
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3/30/1929-present
Nevada daily newspaper. 1929-1996 is page images only; 1997- is article text only, no images.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
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1800-1900
American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
San Francisco Chronicle, 1865-current This link opens in a new window
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1865-1984, 1985-current
Full page images of the daily San Francisco Chronicle, Northern California's largest circulation newspaper, through 1984. Text of articles only after 1985.
South Carolina Newspapers This link opens in a new window
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1732-1775, 1777-1780
The South Carolina Gazette published news and details of life and trade in America during the years prior to independence.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Search for articles published in popular magazines and journals from different times in history.

African American Historical Serials Collection, 1816-1922 This link opens in a new window
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1816-1922
Newspapers and magazines published by African American churches, educational and service institutions.
American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society, Part I-V (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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1684-1912
Popular magazines, newspapers, and journals published in the United States.
EBSCO version offers subject indexing. Also searchable via Gale or Gale Primary Sources combined search portal.
American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940
Magazines and journals published in the U.S. mostly before 1900.
Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection This link opens in a new window
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1750-present
Publications documenting the Hispanic culture of the United States - history, literature, political commentary, and culture. Written in Spanish (80%) and English (20%).
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1880-2015
Music, film, broadcasting and theater industry trade publications published before 2015 including Variety, Billboard, Spin, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, American Film, Picturegoer and more.
Godey's Lady's Book This link opens in a new window
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1830-1880
American magazine with firsthand information on social, historical and cultural aspects of the 19th century.
Harper's Bazaar Archive This link opens in a new window
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1867-
Harper's Bazaar magazine shows changes in American fashion, culture and society.
Media History Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Film industry and fan publications, 1903-1995.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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1892-
Images and text from Vogue Magazine
Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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1887-2005
North American women's magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Parents Magazine, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Essence.
Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window
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1910-
Comprehensive archive of Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), the leading fashion-industry trade paper.

Nineteenth Century Periodicals list
List of freely available 19th C periodicals compiled by Elizabeth Clarke at Marist College.

These links allow you to search across multiple databases at the same time.

AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
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1493-1975
Search all archival collections from Adam Matthew Publishers.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Includes 19th Century UK Periodicals, Archives of Sexuality & Gender (LGBTQ History), British Library Newspapers, The Economist (1843-2014), Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers, Sabin Americana (1500-1926), China and the Modern World, London Times Digital Archive, and London Times Literary Supplement.
Historical U.S. Newspapers from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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1841-2000 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest U.S. historical newspaper collections simultaneously.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender‎ (1909 - 1975)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune‎ (1849 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor‎ (1908 - 2003)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times‎ (1881 - 1993)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2013)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune‎ (1841 - 1922)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post‎ (1877 - 2000)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. West, including Reno Gazette-Journal (1876-2008), San Francisco Examiner (1889-2007), and Spokane Statesman-Review (1894-2009)
Historical Periodicals from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
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1740-1940 with some more recent
Search all ProQuest historical periodical collections simultaneously.
American Periodicals‎ (1740 - 1940)
British Periodicals‎ (1681 - 1939)
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive‎ (1880 - 2000)
The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
Periodicals Archive Online‎
The Vogue Archive‎
Women's Magazine Archive‎ (1846 - 2005)
The Women's Wear Daily Archive‎
Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window
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1639-1922
Combined search of American historical newspapers (1690-1922), printed books (1639-1819), and pamphlets and ephemera (1749-1922).
Search all collections of historical primary sources from Readex simultaneously: America's Historical Newspapers, American Broadsides and Ephemera; American Pamphlets; Early American Imprints (Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker).

Accessible Archives combined search
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Cross search 19thC American periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and clippings.
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Collections include African American Newspapers, The Civil War A Newspaper Perspective, Godey's Lady's Book, South Carolina Newspapers (colonial), and antislavery and woman suffrage publications.
EBSCO 19th C periodicals
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Cross search American Antiquarian Society periodicals with African American Serials, Gateway to North America collections.
Elephind
Search across online newspaper collections including many state collections, many of the Library of Congress Chronicling America newspapers, and Australian and New Zealand collections.

Historical Newspapers: United States

Free newspaper archives

Search Tips

Lists of microfilmed and online newspapers

City and Business Directories

United States historical newspapers searchable online

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