Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
The goal of Elephind.com is to make it possible to search all the world’s online historic newspapers from one place. We aren’t there yet, but we are adding more newspapers every day.
Browse or search digitized newspapers from around the U.S. Dates/coverage varies by newspaper. News reports indicate that Google stopped adding content in 2011, and rather than having its own search page, is now merged with Google News.
New York Times-Time Machine
This collection is included with our New York Times digital subscriptions. Get access to all the past issues of The New York Times over the last 150 years.
The library has the following newspaper microfilm that may be accessed any time the library is open. Staff at the Columbia Public Library and the Callaway County Public Library are available to do limited searching for articles and obituaries if specific information is provided (e.g. an exact date of death for obituary records).
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.
The NYS Historic Newspapers project provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history.
The Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections are free to search, free to browse, and free to download.There are five collections on this site: Illinois Newspapers,
Farm, Field and Fireside (farm newspapers), American Popular Entertainment (vaudeville newspapers), Collegiate Chronicle (student newspapers), and Black Newspapers.
These collections contain 211,294 issues from 201 newspapers
The Kansas Historical Newspaper collection features The Topeka Daily Mail, The Topeka Daily Times, and The North Topeka Pointer.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
The California Digital Newspaper Collection is a growing repository of historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California.
These African American Newspapers were digitized in the Chronicling America project from the Library of Congress.
The Historical Jewish Press website brings the data and Digital Humanities revolution to this field and offers the possibility to perform a full search of all the published text of a given newspaper throughout all the years of its publication.
The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is a collaboration of Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the Rodef Shalom Congregation Archives, the Rauh Jewish Archives at the Senator John Heinz History Center, and the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh.
The Japanese American Courier Archives
This collection consists of selected articles from the Japanese American Courier, which was the first English-language weekly published exclusively for the Nisei community. It was published and edited by James Sakamoto, one of the founding members of the Japanese American Citizens League. The Courier's first issue was published on January 1, 1928, and its last issue was dated April 24, 1942.
Newspapers published in the District of Columbia during the Civil War provide essential information about the war and life in the city during a time of crisis. In Washington, Georgetown, and Alexandria, nearly 30 daily and weekly newspapers chronicled the war.
Alabama Civil War Newspapers
The Alabama Department of Archives and History undertook a project to make all of its newspapers from that era available online. These issues have been digitized from microfilm. The quality varies greatly, depending on the condition of the original paper and the film; therefore, some portions of the text may be illegible or difficult to read.
Discover newspaper articles from across the United States organized by specific headline topics. Topics range from people, like Ida B. Wells, to historical events like the Civil War.
The Internet Archive features past issues of Harper's Weekly. This was one of the most popular publications during the civil war.
Bainbridge Island Review Collection
This collection consists of selected articles from the Bainbridge Island Review, a community paper from Bainbridge Island, Washington. During World War II, the Bainbridge Island Review was the sole newspaper on the West Coast to continuously speak out against the mass removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, primarily through the editorials of Walt Woodward, editor from 1935-1963.
Tulean Dispatch Collection
This collection consists of selected issues of the Tulean Dispatch, a newspaper published by the inmates at the Tule Lake concentration camp in California. Many of the issues are originals and were donated to Densho by Joe Matsuzawa in 2001. Additional issues of the Tulean Dispatch were provided by the Library of Congress as microfilm scans and the family of Itaru and Shizuko Ina in 2014.
Carriers' Addresses Digital Repository
Carriers' addresses were published by newspapers, usually on January 1, and distributed in the United States for more than two centuries. The custom originated in England and was introduced here during colonial times. The newsboys delivered these greetings in verse each New Year's Day and the customers understood that a tip was expected.
Stars and Stripes World War I Newspaper
This online collection includes the complete seventy-one-week run of The Stars and Stripes World War I edition. The Stars and Stripes was published in France by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of the United States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.