Historical U.S. Newspapers
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America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922Many newspaper titles published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States and the Caribbean are available in America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922, including Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 2, 3, and 6. Articles are reproduced as PDFs.
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African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998A major full-text database searchable separately or as part of America's Historical Newspapers.
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Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876,A major full-text database that is also searchable separately or as part of America's Historical Newspapers.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1777-1963From the Library of Congress, high-quality, searchable, digitized pages of newspapers from all over the U.S.
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NewspaperArchive [formerly Access Newspaper Archive]Covers many smaller newspapers, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries in the U.S., as well as some international newspapers.
See also: American Historical Newspapers Online research guide.
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Early American Newspapers, 1704-1820 [on microform]Call Number: Library Annex, Microprint 21The library catalog provides individual records for each title included in the collection.
To view all of the titles in the set, search the Library Catalog for "early american newspapers" and microopaque.
Note: "Microopaque" is the technical term for microcards, an earlier microform technology that mounted the reduced photographic page images on card stock.
In addition to the above, the following titles are available online through Accessible Archives. Articles are not reproductions of the original pages, but rather transcribed text.
- African American Newspapers, The Nineteenth Century. Seven newspapers written by and for African-Americans, published between 1827 and 1902.
- The Civil War -- Part I: A Newspaper Perspective. Three newspapers with three different perspectives on the war: The Charleston (SC) Mercury, The New York Herald, and The Richmond (VA) Enquirer. Over 11,000 articles from 2500 issues published between November 1, 1860 and April 30, 1865.
- Pennsylvania Gazette. The Gazette was published by Benjamin Franklin. "Published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800, The Pennsylvania Gazette is considered The New York Times of the 18th century." -- Publisher
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Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers: Text Database and IndexCall Number: Library Annex Disk PN 1581 .P47 1997Available on CD-ROM from the Library Annex. Contains selected transcribed articles about music, theater, and dance published in colonial American newspapers between 1690 and 1783, indexed by name subject, genre, and title.