National and International Collections
Licensed Databases of Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical NewspapersCornell 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. - America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922(formerly Early American Newspapers). Cornell restricted resource.
Web-based archive of Americana that features images and full-text content from many historical newspapers. - NewspaperArchive [formerly Access Newspaper Archive]Covers many smaller newspapers, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries int he U.S., as well as some international newspapers.
- HarpWeekCornell 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. - American Periodicals Series Online, 1741-1940Cornell 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.comAncestry 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.
Free collections of newspapers
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.Various time periods and places.
- Small Town Newspapers250 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.
Useful Tips
Elephind is a search engine that searches across many newspapers from five countries.
Elephind aggregates online access to a variety of digitized collections of newspapers at the national level (notably Australia) and at U.S. state levels on one website. Certain U.S. states are extensively covered in these collections.
While there are millions of pages of digitized newspapers, millions more exist only in print or on microfilm. Where are the Newspapers? provides guidance on locating copies of newspapers in the Cornell University Library.