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This table provides a list of some historic newspapers that are available online through Ellis Library subscriptions or at no cost to the general public.

*Items in categories with this notation are freely available online.

More historic newspapers are available online in the following databases:

  • 19th Century Masterfile is designed to help you begin your historical research using the truly authoritative subject, author and title indexes published prior to 1925. It is an index to periodical articles appearing in British and American scholarly journals from 1802 to 1906. Indexing is by keyword only. For a listing of titles indexed, click here.
  • Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection. To search for newspapers only, select "Newspaper" under publication type.
  • Alternative Press Index indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary, from 1991-present. Some full-text is available. Searching may be limited to items held in Ellis Library.
  • C19 - Nineteenth Century Index draws on the strength of established indexes such as the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index and Periodicals Index Online to create integrated bibliographic coverage of over 1.3 million books and official publications, 61,647 archival collections and 15.5 million articles published in over 2,500 journals, magazines and newspapers. Full-text is not available.
  • Chronicling America, Early American Newspapers (Currently covering selected newspapers from Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and Washington D.C. 1900-1910 available now, with plans to expand dates from 1836-1922).
  • Columbia Missourian online edition provides full-text access to articles published in the Missourian from 2002-present.
  • Factiva provides access to current issues and an archive of over 8,000 publications from around the globe. Search for newspapers by selecting "Source", then "Newspapers: All". This may also be broken down by continent, region, or country, then selecting a specific newspaper. Full-text available.
  • Historic Missouri Newspaper Project provides searchable full-images of 14 Missouri newspapers. Coverage dates vary.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe offers access to the fulltext of current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, and news sources from around the world. This source is full-text. Use "Quick News Search" for any newspaper articles about a topic, or the "Guided News Search" for articles in a specific newspaper.
  • NewsBank, a searchable full-text database, indexes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from 1989, the Kansas City Star from 1991, and other selected newspapers from Missouri and around the nation.
  • Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Browse a listing of indexed titles by clicking "Publications" under basic search.
  • Paper of Record is a free Internet site (registration required) providing searchable full text versions of hundreds of historical newspapers from around the world.
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers digitally reproduces every issue of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal from cover-to-cover. There is a short gap between this database's coverage and the most current issues. Coverage during this gap can be found in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. It provides full page-image and full-text searching of these newspapers. To limit results by date, see these instructions.
  • Regional Business News provides comprehensive full-text coverage for regional business publications. It incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
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U.S. Electronic Newspapers*

Newspaper
Date
Notes
California

1900-1910

Amador Ledger (Jackson, Amador County), The Call-Chronicle-Examiner ( San Francisco), Los Angeles Herald ( Los Angeles), The San Francisco Call ( San Francisco)
1880-1890
San Francisco newspaper.
1881-1984
  
1900-1910
 
Colorado
1859-1923
Over 100 newspapers online. Browse by issue or search all titles
Florida
1900-1910
The DeSoto County News (Arcadia), The Florida Agriculturalist (DeLand), Gainesville Daily Sun (Gainesville), The New Enterprise (Madison), The Pensacola Journal (Pensacola), The Punta Gorda Herald (Punta Gorda).
Georgia
1828-1833
The first American Indian newspaper.
1876
African American newspaper based in Savannah.
1878-1887
 
1750-1925

The Cherokee Phoenix, The Colored Tribune, The Dublin Post
Hawaii
1834-1948
Over 40 Hawaiian and English language newspapers. Partial runs.
1861-1927
16 Hawaiian language newspapers online. Partial runs.
Illinois
1914-1930
 
Kentucky
1900-1910

The Adair County News (Columbia), The Bee (Earlington), Blue-Grass Blade (Lexington), Breathitt County News (Jackson), The Bourbon News (Paris), The Central Record (Lancaster), The Citizen (Berea), The Clay City Times (Clay City), The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort), Frankfort Weekly News (Frankfort), The Hartford Republican (Hartford), Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville), The Interior Journal (Stanford), It (Lawrenceburg), Liberty (La Center), Mountain Advocate (Barbourville), Mount Vernon Signal (Mt. Vernon), Owingsville Outlook (Owingsville), The Record (Greenville), The Richmond Climax (Richmond), Semi-Weekly Interior Journal (Stanford), The Winchester News (Winchester)

1886-1910
Adair County News, Bluegrass Blade, Bourbon News, Central Record
Maryland
1902-1978
Free registration required. Partial run.
1856-1857
Cambridge newspaper. Free registration required.
1830-1903
Free registration required. Partial run.
1937-1947
Free registration required.
Massachusetts
1872-1923
  
1873-
 
Minnesota
1855, 1857, 1860-1946
Winona Argus, Winona Daily Republican, and Winona Republican-Herald
Missouri
1836-1987
 
1966-1985
 
1886-2003
Free registration required.
New Hampshire
1895-1897
North Conway newspaper. Free registration required.
New Jersey
1860-1923
Non-searchable PDF files. Browsable by date.
New York
1841-1902
Extensive national and international coverage.
1900-1910

The Evening World ( New York), New York Tribune ( New York), The Sun ( New York)
1838-1840
New York City newspaper. Free registration required.
1843
New York City newspaper. Free registration required.
1827-1829
America's first African American newspaper. Based in New York City.
1900-1910
New York City newspaper.
1851-2003
 
1811-2004
 
1839-1892
The Corrector, The Long Islander, The Long Island Traveler, The Port Jefferson Echo, and The South Side Signal.
1841-1842
Rochester newspaper. Free registration required.
Ohio
1859-67
Cincinnati newspaper. Free registration required.
Pennsylvania
1843-1851
 
1887-1976
Penn State's student newspaper
1830-1889
Lancaster County newspaper
1859-1867
Republican Newspaper. Excerpts.
1889-1931
Free registration required.
1847-1874
Newspapers of Bellefonte, Chambersburg, Columbia, Erie, Gettysburg, Huntingdon, Philadelphia, Reading, Waynesboro and Wellsboro.
1859-1870
Franklin County Democratic newspaper. Excerpts.
Tennessee
1893
Free registration required
Utah
1900-1910

Deseret Evening News ( Great Salt Lake City), Salt Lake Herald ( Salt Lake City)
1900-1910
 
1850-1969
Over 40 newspapers including the Deseret News.
Virginia
1900-1910

Richmond Dispatch ( Richmond), The Times ( Richmond), The Times Dispatch ( Richmond)
1859-1870
Democratic newspaper in Augusta County. Excerpts.
1947
Free registration required.
1860-1865
Widely read newspaper in Richmond during the Civil War.
1900-1910
Whig newspaper in Augusta County. Excerpts.
1857-1870
Whig newspaper in Augusta County. Excerpts.
1865-1870
Augusta County newspaper. Excerpts.
1736-1780
Williamsburg, VA. newspaper.
Washington D.C.
1900-1910
The Colored American, The Evening Times, The Hatchet, The National Forum, The Suburban Citizen, The Sunday Globe, Sunday Morning Globe, Sunday Washington Globe, The Washington Bee, The Washington Herald, Washington Sentinel, Washington Times, Washington Weekly Post, The Weekly News (Anacostia).
1847-1860
African American newspaper.
1888-1929
Popular national newspaper among the deaf population, published by the New Jersey school for the Deaf.
1918-1919
Paper published by the U.S. Army for its forces stationed in France.
Washington State
1852-1886
Newspapers from Seattle, Olympia, Spokane, and Walla Walla. Requires DjVu plug in.
Wisconsin
1860-1940
Over 16,000 articles about biographical and local subjects excerpted from many newspapers.

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International Electronic Newspapers*

Australia
Newspaper Date Notes
1840-1845 Includes periodicals from Australia, as well as London-published periodicals of relevance to Australia.
1840-1902 Free registration required.

Newspaper Date Notes
Austria
19th and 20th centuries Over 60 historical newspapers of Austria, digitized by the Austrian National Library.

Newspaper Date Notes
Canada
1885-2001 Enormous collection, but not searchable across issues or titles.
1939-1945 Collection of article clippings about WWII published in Canadian newspapers.
1844-2002 "Canada's National Newspaper."
1752-2001 Large collection of over 100 major and local Canadian newspapers. Free registration required.
1854-1857 African-American paper published in Chatham, Canada West (now Ontario)

Newspaper Date Notes
New Zealand
19th century 41 newspapers and periodicals from 19th century New Zealand.
1842-1932 A collection of Māori and English language historic newspapers published primarily for a Māori audience between 1842 and 1932.

Newspaper Date Notes
United Kingdom
1861-1913  
1861-1865  

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Historical Newspaper Indexes*

Newspaper Date Notes
1868-1929  
1852-1984  
1860-1940  
1885-1977  
1764-1984  
1817-1950  
1894-2004  
1877-1986  

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