Historical Online Newspapers

Search and view newspaper pages from 1756-1963 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. All articles are full-text

This guide provides access to digitized free historic newspaper resources by U.S. state and are arranged alphabetically by state. Holdings vary by date and location. Some are provided by the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website and others may be provided by state historical societies, public or university libraries, and state libraries and archives

This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google. The content is available for free, though it is at the discretion of the institution providing the content. The newspapers contained within guide are those that have ceased to operate or are currently running papers with archives available. It does not include papers that are currently running and only offer access to the most recent articles.

The State Historical Society of Missouri is pleased to present a growing collection of digitized historic newspapers. These images are freely available to the public and are keyword-searchable. Many of Missouri’s digital newspapers are also available through the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site, which ultimately aims to include newspaper pages from all states and U.S. territories in its collection.

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News. It provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to the 18th century. There is a timeline view available to help you select news from a specific period.

Advantage Archives is one of the largest companies for digitizing newspapers. This list is by state, then by town. Some links will actively open the digital archive from the owning institute. Other links may not open as they are for local viewing from the owning institution.

This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives.

A genealogy research guide providing access to historical newspapers on the internet.

A guide to historical U.S. newspapers that are freely available on the Internet. If dates of coverage are included in an entry for a newspaper, the source may or may not include all issues within the listed time period. Also, the dates of coverage were correct when they were added to the entry, but may have changed since they were recorded.

This list includes many resources that are NOT available for free. BUT - scroll through the list and look for "Open Access Digitized Newspaper Collections." You will find historical collections of newspapers organized by United States regions. There are also other resources in the whole list that may be of interest. Look for the lock icon, in the unlocked version.

Offering a different way to search for US historical newspapers. You will find links to full text websites, and also websites that offer indexes to stories in these newspapers. Last but not least, you can also find links to newspaper photograph morgues.

Newspapers for the Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois

This is digital archive of the Commercial Record of Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan. You can search it's digital contents from 1868-1977.

Get in touch with Wyoming’s past through historical and archived Wyoming Newspapers. Historians, genealogists, students, and scholars will find a wealth of reliable information here, all first-hand accounts of local news from days gone by. Our earliest archive dates back to 1849 but many of these papers survived for only a brief time and disappeared like the boom-and-bust ghost towns of Wyoming and the west. This collection contains 268,408 issues comprising 3,903,862 pages.

Google News Archive offers a wealth of digitized historic newspapers online — many of them for free. The project was discontinued by Google, but the historical newspapers that were previously digitized remain. While still a wealth of content, due to poor digital scanning and OCR (optical character recognition), a simple search of the Google newspaper archive rarely pulls up anything but major headlines. This article will help you find what you are looking for.

Digitized newspapers in Chronicling America provide online access to a wide range of historical content. Not only will you find marriage announcements and death notices, but you can also read contemporary articles that were published as events happened, and learn what was important in the area and time where your ancestors lived through advertisements, editorial and social columns, etc.

This article features tips that can help you do genealogical research in Chronicling America. In addition, you will find links to other newspaper tools available at the Library of Congress that will help you.