American Historical Newspapers Online: National Newspaper Collections

Cornell restricted resource.
Newspapers covered:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1868-1984),
Baltimore Sun (1837-1997),
Boston Globe (1872-1991),
Chicago Tribune (1849-2013),
Hartford Courant (1764-1997),
Los Angeles Times (1881-2014),
New York Times (1851-2019),
New York Tribune / Herald Tribune (1841-1962),
Wall Street Journal (1889-2011),
and Washington Post (1877-2006).
African-American newspapers:
Chicago Defender (1910-2010,
New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993),
and Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2010).
International newspapers:
ABC [Madrid] (1903-2010),
Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953),
Globe and Mail [Toronto] (1844-2019),
Hindustan Times (1924-2000),
Irish Times / Weekly Irish Times [Dublin] (1859-2020),
Le Monde (1944-2000),
Montreal Gazette (1785-2010),
and Times of India (1838-2010).
PDFs scanned from microfilm for earlier years. English. Advertising content is searchable. Search a single newspaper or cross-search any combination of newspapers in this collection.

(formerly Early American Newspapers). Cornell restricted resource.
Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newspapers.

Covers many smaller newspapers, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries int he U.S., as well as some international newspapers.

Cornell restricted resource.
Offers full-text access to Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. The Library has licensed access to the issues from 1857-1912. The Library also has a CD-ROM of the Civil War era issues.

Cornell restricted resource.
While primarily devoted to periodicals, this resource also includes some newspapers, such as The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's paper. Individual titles are listed in the Cornell catalog.

Ancestry includes among its genealogical resources 63 newspapers and other periodicals including Stars and Stripes and the LeRoy Gazette newspaper in LeRoy, New York, from 1826-1993. Only genealogical information (obituaries, etc.) from these news sources is available through Ancestry.com.

Various time periods and places.

250 small town newspapers, many of which can be searched and browsed for free. Time coverage for individual newspapers varies widely. Title list here: http://www.stparchive.com/landing.php.