Historical Newspapers and Indexes On The Internet - USA

Directory of Historical Newspapers on the Internet

General Collections

• Genealogy Bank (subscription based) includes more than 2400 historical newspapers from 1690-1977, and more than 26 million obituaries from 1977 to current
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers 1880-1922 - from the Library of Congress here you can view historical newspaper pages for some newspapers from the following states: Arizona, California (the Los Angeles Herald, Sacramento Record-Union, San Francisco Call, and others), District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii (Honolulu Daily Herald), Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota (Saint Paul Globe), Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York (New York Evening World, NY Sun, and NY Tribune), Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (papers from Fort Worth, Houston & others), Utah (Salt Lake City Herald and others), Vermont, Virginia, and Washington; coverage varies by state and newspaper
• Google News Archive Search (some results may require payment)

Alabama

• Birmingham Iron Age 1874-1887 from the Birmingham Public Library

Alaska

• Alaska Newspapers Index from the Alaska State Library

California

• California Digital Newspaper Collection 1849-1911 presently includes the Alta California, 1849-1891; San Francisco Call, 1893-1910; Amador Ledger, 1900-1911; Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; Sacramento Record-Union, 1859-1890; and the Los Angeles Herald, 1905-1907

Colorado

• Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Florida

• Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Georgia

• Digital Library of Georgia: Historic Newspapers includes: assorted Athens newspapers 1827-1922; assorted Atlanta newspapers from 1857-1922; the Cherokee Phoenix, the Dublin Post, and the Colored Tribune (assorted years in the 19th Century); the Columbus Enquirer, 1828-1890; the Macon Telegraph, 1826-1908; Milledgeville newspapers from 1808 to 1920; and the Southern Israelite (Atlanta-based Jewish newspaper) from 1929-1958 and 1984-1986; (coverage varies by newspaper)

Illinois

• Chicago Tribune Historical Articles Search, 12/1/1852-Present (fee required to view the articles)
• Chicago Tribune 1870-1877 (at Fold3) searches are free, a fee is required to view the newspaper images; includes coverage of the 1871 Chicago fire
• Chicago Sentinel 1911-1949 - weekly Jewish publication
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection includes the Daily Illini (University of Illinois) 1916-1945; Urbana Daily Courier 1903-1935; Express (Tallula, Illinois) 1895-1896 (Scattered issues)

Indiana

• Indiana Newspaper Indexes includes...
  • Indianapolis Newspaper Index, 1848-1991 (for the Indianapolis Herald, Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis News, Indianapolis Sentinel and the Indianapolis Star; coverage varies by newspaper)
  • Logansport Newspaper Index, 1848-1855
  • New Albany Newspaper Index, 1849-1889
  • Vincennes Newspaper Index, 1804-1827
• Indianapolis Recorder 1899-2005 Indiana-based African-American newspaper; some years missing
• Indiana Farmer Newspaper 1851-1917

Kentucky

• Northern Kentucky Newspaper Index
• Historic Kentucky Newspapers Collection

Louisiana

• Louisiana Newspaper Access Program digitized early newspaper issues from various Louisiana Parishes

Maine

• Brunswick, Maine: Brunswick Weekly Newspapers Index 1853-December, 1960

Minnesota

• Winona Newspaper Project includes the Winona Argus and Winona Daily Republican

Missouri

• Missouri Digital Heritage Collections: Newspapers
• Index to Selected Missouri Newspapers includes: Columbia Missouri Statesman, 1843-1886; Jackson Independent Patriot, 1820-1826; Jackson Missouri Herald, 1819-1820; Liberty Tribune, 1860-1869; Liberty Weekly Tribune, 1846-1860; Missouri Intelligencer, 1819-1835; St. Louis Missouri Argus, 1835-1840; St. Louis Missouri Gazette, 1808-1822; St. Louis Missouri Republican, 1822-1828.
• State Historical Society of Missouri - Search Newspapers and Other Items includes...
  • Columbia Missourian, 1908-1922
  • Daily Missouri Republican, 1854-1860
  • Daily Missouri Republican, 1861-1865
  • Hayti Herald, 1909-1922
  • Jasper News, 1901-1922
  • Kansas City Journal, 1895-1899
  • Kirksville Weekly Graphic, 1880-1896
  • St. Joseph Observer, 1915-1922
  • St. Louis Republic, 1900-1905

Montana

• Montana Library Network Newspaper Index index for several Montana newspapers

Nebraska

• Nebraska Newspapers selected Nebraska newspapers before 1923 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• Nebraska State Newspaper Extraction Project

New Jersey

• Atlantic County Digitized Newspapers Collection no index - files are large
• Monmouth County: Red Bank Register Archive 1878-1991

New York

• New York Times Article Archive Search 1851-present some articles may require payment; many earlier articles (1851-1922) are free
• New York Tribune Index 1875-1884, 1895
• Freedom's Journal 1827-1829 Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online 1841-1902
• Hudson River Valley Heritage: Historical Newspapers Dutchess, Orange, Rockland and Ulster Counties
• Monroe County: Historical Newspapers of the Rochester New York Region
• Nassau County Libraries Historic Newspaper Collections
• Northern New York Historical Newspapers provided by the Northern New York Library Network (for Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, and Saint Lawrence Counties)
• Suffolk County Historic Newspapers
• Assorted Historical Newspapers from Upstate New York has over 18 million newspaper pages

North Carolina

• North Carolina Newspaper Digitization Project

Ohio

• Ohio Jewish Chronicle 1922-1994 weekly newspaper for the Columbus Jewish community

Oregon

• Oregon Newspapers Index includes: the Portland Oregonian; the Eugene Register-Guard; and the Oregon Daily Emerald (University of Oregon campus newspaper, Eugene) coverage varies for each newspaper
• Historic Oregon Newspapers

Pennsylvania

• State Library of Pennsylvania: Digitized Historic Newspapers Collection
• Philadelphia Press Index 1902-1912
• Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project includes the Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present)
• Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection "all the words, photographs, and advertisements from selected [Pennsylvania] newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War"

South Carolina

• The New South Newspaper 1862-1866, Port Royal and Beaufort, South Carolina Civil War era

South Dakota

• Deadwood Historical Newspapers Index 1876-1894 indexes these Deadwood newspapers: Black Hills Pioneer, Black Hills Times, Black Hills Champion

Texas

• Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Utah

• Utah Digital Newspapers

Virginia

• Fairfax County, Virginia Library Historical Newspaper Index 1785-2000 includes Fairfax, Alexandria, Arlington and other newspapers (coverage varies by newspaper)
• Fredericksburg Research Resources - Includes Some Historical Fredericksburg Newspaper Indexes scroll down to the newspapers section
• Petersburg Public Library Newspaper Index 1797-1877
• Richmond...
  • Richmond Daily Dispatch - Civil War Period 1860-1865
  • Newspaper Index: Richmond Times Dispatch, Richmond News Leader 1940s-1985
• Williamsburg: Virginia Gazette 1736-1780

Washington (State)

• Historical Newspapers in Washington Project (ongoing project) most entries are from the 1850s-1880s

Wisconsin

• Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles c.1860 - c.1940 has 16,000 articles

Wyoming

• Wyoming Newspaper Project