United States History

Provides full text, searchable access to:

• African-American Newspapers, Parts I-XII
   ⚬ The Christian Recorder (1861–1902)
   ⚬ The Colored American (1837–1841)
   ⚬ Frederick Douglass’ Paper (1851–1855; 1859–1863)
   ⚬ Freedom’s Journal (1827–1829)
   ⚬ The National Era (1847–1860)
   ⚬ The North Star (1847–1851)
   ⚬ Provincial Freeman (1854–1857)
   ⚬ Weekly Advocate (1837–1837)
• Civil War, Parts I-IV
• Godey's Lady's Book, 1830-1898
• The Liberator, Parts I & II, 1831-1840
• The Lily, 1849-1856
• The Pennsylvania Gazette, Parts I-IV, 1728-1800
• Virginia Gazette

The database consists of digital images of original newspaper pages scanned from microfilm, which have been processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to permit searching by keyword. The quality of the scanned images, and hence the accuracy of the keyword searching, varies widely. The largest number of holdings is 1880-2010 and is mainly from the United States, Canada, England, and Ireland, although there are some newspapers from other countries in other languages. More information from NewspaperArchive.com.

Please note: The holdings will list broad ranges of dates but NewspaperArchive.com does not necessarily contain all the issues in that time period. For instance, it lists the holding for Chicago’s News Journal as 1923-1977, yet has no issues from 1929 to 1968. Use the Browse tab to find more precise holdings information for specific titles.

To limit results to a particular state in America, you must first choose the United States as a country, and then the state you would like to search.

Rare printed documents that were never intended to last. Includes notices, advertisements, playbills, music programs, menus, greeting cards, sailing cards, cookbooks, stamps and more, providing a unique perspective on early American life.

Rare printed documents that were never intended to last. Includes notices, advertisements, playbills, music programs, menus, greeting cards, sailing cards, cookbooks, stamps and more, providing a unique perspective on early American life.

Search results can include content that is freely accessible as well as content that requires a fee: be sure to check Journal Finder to see if the Thompson Library provides access to a source before paying a fee for it. Articles related to a single story within a given time period are grouped together to allow users to see a broad perspective on the topics they are searching. In addition to seeing results ranked by relevancy, users can also see a historical overview of the results by browsing an automatically generated timeline.

19th Century to Present: Which past years are covered, and what content is free, varies by each individual news source.

Includes these collections:
• American Civil War Periodicals, 1855-1868
• American Political and Social Movements Periodicals, 1815-1884
• American Political Periodicals, 1715-1891
• Canadian Periodicals, 1790-1877
• Current Events and History Periodicals, 1691-1912
• Foreign Language Periodicals in America, 1684-1904
• Hobbies, Socialization, and Sport Periodicals, 1775-1889
• Masons, Odd-Fellows and Other Societal Periodicals, 1794-1877
• Military and Law Enforcement Periodicals, 1691-1877
• Periodicals from Around the World, 1691-1880
• Periodicals of the American West, 1779-1881
• Periodicals of the British Empire and Its Colonies, 1702-1879
• Slavery and Abolition, 1789-1887

Includes these collections:
• Women’s Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844
• Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1845-1865
• Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1866-1891

Provides cross-searching of 17 different historical newspaper and periodical archive collections, covering 1600-2010:

• 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers (pts.1 & 2)
• 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
• 19th Century UK Periodicals (Empire and New Readerships)
• British Newspapers, 1780-1950
• Daily Mail Historical Archive
• The Economist Historical Archive
• Financial Times Historical Archive
• Illustrated London News Historical Archive
• Liberty Magazine Historical Archive
• The Listener Historical Archive
• The Picture Post Historical Archive
• The Sunday Times Digital Archive
• Times Digital Archive
• Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive

Searchable access to the New York Times (Late Eastern Edition), from the first issue on September 18, 1851 to the present. Reproduces the complete full text of every issue in its original printed form, in full page images digitized from microfilm. Also incorporates indexing and subject headings from the New York Times Index, 1851-1993.

Includes:
• Arizona Republican (1890-1922)
• Atlanta Constitution (1868-1984)
• Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003)‎ *
• Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988) *
•‎ Baltimore Sun (1837-1922)
• Chicago Defender (1909-1975) *
• Chicago Tribune (1849-1994)
• Christian Science Monitor (1908-2004)
• Cincinnati Enquirer‎ (1841-1922)
• Cleveland Call and Post‎ (1934-1991) *
• Dayton Daily News‎ (1831-1999)
• Detroit Free Press (1831-1922)‎
• The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer (1791-2003)‎
• Jerusalem Post (1932-2008)‎
• Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) *
• Los Angeles Times (1881-1994)
• Louisville Courier Journal‎ (1830-1922)
• Nashville Tennessean‎ (1812-1922)
•‎ New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993) *
• New York Times (1851-2014)‎
•‎ Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916-2003)
•‎ Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
• Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002) *
•‎ South China Morning Post‎ (1903-1998)
•‎ Wall Street Journal (1889-2000)‎
• Washington Post (1877-2001)‎

All the newspapers can be searched individually or in combinations in this database. They are listed separately in the A-Z list as "Historical Newspapers: Title." Newspapers noted with * are also searchable in the database Black Historical Newspapers.