LibGuides: A Guide to News Research: Where to Find News Articles: Early U.S. Newspapers

Historical U.S. Newspapers

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1789-1925
From the Library of Congress, high-quality, digitized pages of newspapers from all over the U.S.
America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876
Many 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. Includes Series 1, 2, 3, and 6 of Early American Newspapers. Articles are reproduced as PDFs.
African-American Newspapers, 1827-1998
A major full-text database also searchable separately or as part of America's Historical Newspapers.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876,
A major full-text database, is also searchable separately or as part of America's Historical Newspapers.

In addition to the above, the following titles are available online through Accessible Archives:

African American Newspapers, The Nineteenth Century. Seven newspapers written by and for African-Americans, published between 1827 and 1902.
The Civil War, 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. Transcribed articles that appeared in this newspaper from 1728 to 1783. The Gazette was published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia.

Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers
Call Number: Olin Library Reference (Non-Circulating) Disk PN1581 .P47 1997
Available on CD-ROM only in the Electronic Text Center, Olin Reference. 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.