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 1836-1922 - from the Library of Congress coverage varies by state and newspaper

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 includes the Amador Ledger, 1852-1911; Imperial Valley Press, 1901-1911; Livermore Herald, 1877-1899; Los Angeles Herald, 1873-1910; Sacramento Daily Union, 1851-1899; San Francisco Call, 1890-1913; and more California newspapers

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; the Southern Israelite (Atlanta-based Jewish newspaper) from 1929-1958 and 1984-1986; and the South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive with 15 newspapers from 9 south Georgia cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cuthbert, Tifton, Thomasville, Valdosta, and Waycross) from 1845 to 1922. (Coverage varies by newspaper.)

Hawaii

• Index to the Honolulu Advertiser and Star-Bulletin, 1929-1969

Illinois

• Chicago Newspapers
  • Chicago Tribune Historical Articles Search, 12/1/1852-Present (fee required to view the articles)
  • Chicago Newspaper Archives 1884-1990 at GenealogyBank (fee-based)
  • Chicago Tribune 1849-1923 (at Fold3) searches are free, a fee is required to view the newspaper images
  • Chicago Examiner 1908-1918 from the Chicago Public Library
  • Chicago Sentinel 1911-1949 - weekly Jewish publication
  • Hyde Park Herald Archive 1882-2008 Hyde Park is a neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, home of the University of Chicago and Barack Obama
  • Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey a collection of translated newspaper articles originally published in ethnic Chicago newspapers from the 1860s to the 1930s
• Miscellaneous Illinois Newspapers
  • 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)
  • Farm, Field and Fireside: Agricultural Newspaper Collection (includes many from Illinois)

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

• Minnesota Newspapers Collection a small collection of smaller newspapers
• Winona Newspaper Project includes the Winona Argus and Winona Daily Republican

Missouri

• Missouri Digital Heritage Collections: Newspapers
• Missouri Digital Newspaper Project from the State Historical Society of Missouri

Montana

• Montana Historical Newspaper Index index for several Montana newspapers in the Chronicling America Project

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
• North Carolina Newspapers from DigitalNC/the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

Ohio

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

Oklahoma

• Gateway to Oklahoma History: Searchable Newspapers 1840s-1920s from the Oklahoma Historical Society

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 1898-1912
• Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project
• 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

Vermont

• Burlington Free Press and Rutland Herald Newspaper Index covers 1984-May 2009 for the Burlington Free Press and 1984-April 2009 for the Rutland Herald

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