Dates covered: 1690-1998
Over 900 newspaper in all Includes Early American Newspapers Series 1 and 2, 1690-1900; African American Newspapers, 1827-1998; Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980; and selected historical newspapers.
(Library of Congress) Includes digitized newspapers published all over the country between 1836-1922 and also provides information about American newspapers published between 1690-present
Includes over 500 newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.
The collection encompasses the entire 19th century, with an emphasis on such topics as the American Civil War, African-American culture and history, Western migration and Antebellum-era life, among other subjects.
Dates covered: Varies by publication, 1980s - present
Provides access to over 6500 newspapers from all over the world, 70% of which are from North America
Over 4,500 news sources are included. Each provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community, as well as a distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid ads are excluded.
Dates covered: 1980s-present
Full text of articles from more than 2,500 newspapers, including top-tier news publications and local, national, and international sources.
Dates available: 1846-1922 (dates vary by title) Provides access to 32 California newspapers, including:
- Amador Ledger (1852-1911) - Imperial Valley Press (1901-1911 - Los Angeles Herald (1873-1910) - Pacific Rural Press (1871-1922) - Sacramento Daily Union (1851-1899) - San Francisco Call (1890-1913), and more. This site, from UC-Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR), provides access to thousands of digitized pages from 32 California newspapers.
Spotty coverage.
The West's oldest African-American newspaper, published from 1879-1964.
John James Neimore established it in Los Angeles as The California Owl in 1879, to ease black settlers' transition to the West. The paper evolved into one of the leading papers of the day while under the control of Charlotta A. Bass and her husband, Joe Bass. Charlotta Bass assumed control of The Owl following the death of Neimore in 1912, and renamed it The California Eagle.
This is a catalog that contains records for over 14,400 U.S. newspaper titles held in California repositories (libraries, museums, historical societies and publishers' offices) and close to 9,000 of these newspapers were or are published in California.
- Los Angeles Daily Herald (1873-1876), Daily Los Angeles Herald (1878-1884), Los Angeles Daily Herald (1884-1890), Los Angeles Herald (1890-1893), The Herald (1893-1898), Los Angeles Herald (1905-1910)
- Imperial Press (4/20/1901-10/26/1901), The Imperial Press and Farmer(1901-1903), The Imperial Press (1903-1905), Imperial Valley Press and The Imperial Press (1906-1907), and Imperial Valley Press (1907-1910).
- The Morning Call (1890-1895), The San Francisco Call (1895-1913), The Call-Chronicle-Examiner (4/19/1906),The San Francisco Call and Post (1913)
- Amador Ledger (1900-1910)
- Sacramento Daily Record-Union (1880-1891), The Record-Union (1891-1899)
Includes 43 newspapers from California.
Titles include: Chicano (1968-1977), Heraldo de Mexico (1917-1928), Prensa (1917-1937), Hispano America (1918-1931).
Searchable by dates and "eras", article types, languages, place of publication, and newspaper title.
Donated to USC in 1978 by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner Division of the Hearst Corporation. This collection consists of approximately 1.4 million prints and negatives from the Los Angeles Examiner newspaper, of which over 21,000 have been digitized. Coverage is broad including crime, sports, society, art, and entertainment.
(USC Digital Library) Established in 1851 as a weekly newspaper, it was printed half in Spanish and half English until 1855. When the Civil War broke out, the outspoken criticism of the federal government by its editor led to the Star being banned from the mails, and the arrest of its editor for treason. It ceased publication in 1864, apparently due to financial problems, but resumed in 1868. In 1870 it became a daily, but ceased publication in 1879 because of lack of funds. No complete file is known to exist. The current collection consists of about 500 issues up through 1864.
Key California Japanese American newspaper. USC currently has partial coverage of 1936-1953, and is continuing to build its collection for these years.
USC Digital library has digitized copies of the Daily Trojan from 1912-present.
THE DT is also available on microform, 1912-2004 in USC's Archives (DML 209); or online from 11/2000 - 09/30/2009 via the Library's Access World News Database; or 5/2009-present on Daily Trojan Website: http://dailytrojan.com/archives/
Dates covered: 1849-1922
All of the newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922 are available in this this searchable and browsable collection.
This database offers access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
The American Hebrew was a weekly Jewish newspaper published in New York City. In 1903 it merged with the Jewish Messenger. Many prominent Jewish writers contributed articles.
In 1903 it merged with the Jewish Messenger. Many prominent Jewish writers contributed articles.
Dates covered: 1728-1800 (from Accessible Archives) This was one of the most prominent and successful newspapers in the American colonies and Early Republic. Published in Philadelphia, the newspaper was purchased by Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith in 1729. Franklin not only printed the paper but also contributed pieces under aliases. This newspaper was the first to print a political cartoon in America, "Join, or Die," authored by Franklin himself. This digital version of The Pennsylvania Gazette provides a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the New Republic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of these periods. Also included is the full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne’s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and much more.
Published in Philadelphia, the newspaper was purchased by BenjaminFranklin and Hugh Meredith in 1729. Franklin not only printed the paper but also contributed pieces under aliases. This newspaper was the first to print a political cartoon in America, "Join, or Die," authored by Franklin himself. This digital version of The Pennsylvania Gazette provides a first-hand view of colonial America, the American Revolution and the NewRepublic, and offers important social, political and cultural perspectives of each of these periods. Also included is the full-text of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne's Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and much more.
Weekly community paper serving the Jewish interests of Philadelphia.
It has been published continuously since 1887 when it was founded by a group of 43 prominent Philadelphians who pledged that the paper would be âdevoted to the interests of the Jewish people.
Originally called the New-York Daily Tribune, it was the dominant Whig Party and Republican newspaper in the U.S. through the 1860s.
During the 1850s it was the largest circulating newspaper in New York City. In 1924 the Tribune merged with the New York Herald to form the New York Herald Tribune, which ceased publication in 1966.
Southeastern Newspapers
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington D.C.)
A pro-segregationist/white supremacist newspaper published in Mississippi between October 1955 and September 1961. It was intended to spread a pro-segregationist message throughout the southern states.
Contains issues of three important historic Georgia newspapers: the Cherokee Phoenix, the Dublin Post, and the Colored Tribune. Currently the only paper being added to this resource is the Cherokee Phoenix.
Nashville's main daily newspaper; it has undergone numerous mergers and acquisitions throughout the 19th century, emerging as the Nashville American in 1907.
A project of the North Carolina State Archives, this collection contains over 23,000 pages from newspapers. Click on the link "Newspapers Included" to see the current list of titles from 6 towns. The runs are mostly short, sometimes with only 2 or 3 issues from one paper. Advertisements are included, including indexing of the text. In addition to browsing, you can search by keyword, year, or a particular newspaper
Accessible Archives provides access to four important 18th century South Carolina newspapers: The South Carolina Gazette (1732-1775), The South Carolina & American General Gazette (1764-1775), The South Carolina Gazette& Country Journal (1765-1775) and The Gazette of the State of South-Carolina (1777-1780).
Dates covered: 1840-1865
Includes the full run of five southern and border state newspapers:
- The Charleston Mercury (SC) (1840-1865)
- The Daily Dispatch (VA) (1852-1865)
- The New Orleans Picayune (LA) (1840-1865)
- The Louisville Daily Journal (KY) (1840-1865)
- Memphis Daily Appeal (TN) (1847-1865)
Materials were specifically selected for regional and diverse perspectives they offer; newspapers include Richmond Dispatch, Charleston Mercury, New Orleans Times Picayune, Boston Herald, New York Herald, Columbus State Journal, The Kentucky Daily Journal, and the Memphis Daily Appeal. Pamphlets come from two important collections: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase & John P. Hale and Civil War Pamphlets 1861-1865.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has made the full-text of this key newspaper available, which covered all of Virginia and included some information from other colonies, Scotland, England etc. Not all the issues survived, and some have surfaced since they were first reproduced on microfilm in the mid-twentieth century that is the basis for the digital version.
Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded the Defender in May 1905, and by the outbreak of the First World War it had become the most widely-read African American newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago.
When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of the Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956. Full text of this newspaper is available in both the Black Studies Center and ProQuest Historical Newspapers databases.
Dates covered: 1840-1865
Includes the the full run of 2 Ohio newspapers:
The Columbus [Ohio] Gazette (1856-1865),
The Daily Ohio State Journal (1840-1841, 1849-1853).
Materials were specifically selected for regional and diverse perspectives they offer; newspapers include Richmond Dispatch, Charleston Mercury, New Orleans Times Picayune, Boston Herald, New York Herald, Columbus State Journal, The Kentucky Daily Journal, and the Memphis Daily Appeal. Pamphlets come from two important collections: Slavery and Anti-Slavery Pamphlets from the Libraries of Salmon P. Chase & John P. Hale and Civil War Pamphlets 1861-1865.
Started in 1916 by Cleveland inventor Garrett Morgan and merged with the Cleveland Post in 1929 to become the Call & Post Newspaper.
With the influence of editor & publisher W.O. Walker between 1932-1981, the Call & Post established itself as one of the most influential black newspapers in Ohio.
The first daily newspaper in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press provides first-hand accounts of the rise of industrialization in the Midwest, especially the development of the automobile industry.
Indianapolis Star (1923-2004) was founded in 1903, by industrialist George McCulloch to compete with two other Indianapolis papers. By1906, the Star had subsumed both competitors. Since then it has been the largest paper in Indiana.
Established in 1890 as a partisan political newspaper to promote Lewis Wolfley, the territorial governor. It struggled financially for the first few years.
In 1896, it was purchased by Frank Murphy, a railroad president, mining executive, and Phoenix developer. He hired Charles C. Randolph, editor of the New York Times Washington Bureau, who gave the paper new life and brought the beginnings of modern journalism to Arizona.
This site contains mostly descriptive information about NM newspapers and where copies are available. The information includes title, place of publication (city and county), publisher, dates that the newspaper was published, language, frequency of publication, and holdings locations for the various institutions. No one institution holds every newspaper, but this database will assist researchers in locating where the newspapers may be found. Links to digital copies of some newspapers are included as well.