Hundreds of historical newspapers are now available in digital format. Some are embedded inside larger digital collections, and many are still only available on microfilm. Use this page as a guide to getting started.
Other places to find newspapers:
(Click here to search all the ProQuest Historical Newspapers.)
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Many more titles are embedded in the collections listed below.
These themed digital collections offer full-text keyword searching and broad geographical coverage.
| Title | Description | Online Access |
| 19th Century U.S. Newspapers |
A full-text searchable, facsimile-image database providing access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source U.S. newspaper content from the 19th century | UIUC Only |
| 19th Century UK Periodicals (Gale) |
This database contains 1.2 million pages of periodicals published in Great Britain from 1800-1900. It includes publications on women, children, leisure and sport, and humor. Series 1. New readerships -- Series 2. Empire. | UIUC Only |
| African American Newspapers: The 19th Century |
A collection of African-American newspapers contains a wealth of information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s | UIUC Only |
| African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive) More information |
Includes African newspapers such as East African Standard, a prominent English-language newspaper in East Africa in the early 20th century; Imvo Zabantsundu, the first newspaper in South Africa owned and controlled by Africans; and Buluwayo Chronicle, one of the earliest press publications in what is now known as Zimbabwe. More titles forthcoming. | UIUC Only |
| America's Historical Newspapers (Readex) 1690-1993 |
Includes searchable American newspapers in digital format. Available: Early American Newspapers, Series I through VII, 1690-1922; 20th Century American Newspapers, 1923-1993 | UIUC Only |
| American Periodicals Series Online |
APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines published in 1741, to the World War II period | UIUC Only |
| American Popular Entertainment |
The American Popular Entertainment Collection is a project of the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The collection is a repository of digital facsimiles of newspapers and trade journals published for the entertainment industry in the U.S. between 1853 and 1922. Using digital imaging technology, we have converted microfilmed originals into preservation-quality image files. Equipped with Olive software's Active Paper Archive platform, the American Popular Entertainment collection delivers access versions of the image files through a user-friendly interface. You can browse the newspapers by date or search by keyword across articles, advertisements, and photo captions, and you can print, download, and e-mail individual articles. The collection is available for free to anyone with an internet connection! | Freely Available |
| British Newspapers 1600-1900 Title Lists |
Cross-searchable database of British Library content from the 17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers database and the 19th Century British Library Newspapers database. | UIUC Only |
| British Periodicals I & II |
British Periodicals traces the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and beyond. | UIUC Only |
| Chronicling America (Library of Congress) |
Newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. (More states will be added.) | Freely Available |
| Farm, Field and Fireside |
The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a locally developed project of the History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library at the University of Illinois. | Freely Available |
| Google News Archive |
A diverse collection of historical newspapers, including some that are freely accessible to all users, and some that require a fee to access. | Freely Available |
| Hispanic American Newspapers 1808-1980 More information |
Searchable digital archive of Hispanic American Newspapers published between 1808-1980. (Readex Archive of Americana) | UIUC Only |
| History of the Printed Newspaper |
Brief history with links to historical newspapers. | Freely Available |
| Latin American Newspapers More information |
Latin American Newspapers, a sub-collection of the World Newspaper Archive, will include approximately 35 fully searchable newspapers printed throughout this region in the 19th and 20th centuries. | UIUC Only |
| ProQuest Historical Newspapers |
Cross-search the historical archives of major metropolitan newspapers like the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, major African American newspapers like the Chicago Defender, and more. | UIUC Only |
| South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive) More information |
"... features titles published in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Languages include English, Bengali, Gujarati, and others. Titles include such key publications as: Amrita Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), Bankura Darpana (Bankura, India), Madras Mail (Madras), Tribune (Lahore, Pakistan) and the Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka) ... The collection will provide more than 400,000 fully searchable pages of newspapers published in South Asia between 1864 and 1922."--CRL | UIUC Only |
| World Newspaper Archive More info |
The World Newspaper Archive is a collaborative effort of CRL member institutions and Readex to preserve and provide persistent access to historical newspapers from around the globe. Modules currently available include Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, and South Asian Newspapers. | UIUC Only |
Major collections of digitized U.S. newspapers are listed here. Browse/Search the UIUC Library Newspaper Database for access to hundreds of newspaper titles. Use drop down boxes to limit by state.
| Title | State | Description | Online Access |
| California Digital Newspaper Collection | California | An ongoing project of the University of California-Riverside, this collection contains article-level digital facsimiles of California newspapers published before 1923. | Freely Available |
| Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection | Colorado | Includes newspapers published in Colorado before 1923. | Freely Available |
| Florida Digital Newspaper Library | Florida | The Florida Digital Newspaper Library includes historic Florida newspapers and current papers digitized instead of being microfilmed. | Freely Available |
| Georgia Historic Newspapers (GALILEO) | Georgia | A collection of digitized historical newspapers published in Georgia. Currently contains the Atlantic Historical Newspaper Archive, including fourteen Atlantic papers published between 1847 and 1922; Columbus Enquirer (1828-1890); Georgia Historical Newspapers, including Cherokee Phoenix (1828-1833), the Colored Tribune (1876), and the Dublin Post (1878-1887); Southern Israelite (1929-1958 and 1984-1986); IAMAW publications; Macon Telegraph (1826-1908); Milledgeville newspapers (1808-1920); the Red and Black (1893-1979); and the University Bumble Bee. More papers are forthcoming. | Freely Available |
| Hawaiian Language Newspapers | Hawaii | University of Hawaii's online archive of several Hawaiian language newspapers. | Freely Available |
| Huntley Farmside (Huntley, Illinois) | Illinois | Online archive of historic newspapers from Huntley, Illinois published between June 30, 1960 through December 28, 2000. | Freely Available |
| Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey | Illinois | Published in 1942 by the Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project of the Work Projects Administration of Illinois, this collection's purpose was to translate into English and classify selected news articles appearing in the Chicago area foreign language press from 1861 to 1938. The project consists of a file of 120,000 typewritten pages translated from newspapers of 22 different foreign language communities in Chicago. UIUC Library has digitized this collection. Microfilm is also available in HPNL (FILM 070.484 C43CH). | Freely Available |
| Flora Digital Newspapers | Illinois | Freely Available | |
| Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection | Illinois | Digital facsimiles of historic Illinois newspapers, freely available over the web. This is a locally developed project of UIUC Library | Freely Available |
| Quincy Historical Newspaper Archive | Illinois | Digital archive of the Quincy Daily Whig and Quincy Daily Herald from Qunicy, Illinois. | Freely Available |
| Kentuckiana Digital Library | Kentucky | Digital collection of historic Kentucky newspapers. | Freely Available |
| Louisiana Digital Library: Louisiana Newspaper Access Program | Louisiana | Ongoing project currently contains over 70 newspaper titles from Louisiana. | Freely Available |
| Barnstable Patriot Newspaper Archive | Massachusetts | From Barnstable County, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This archive covers issues from the paper's first century, 1830-1930. | Freely Available |
| Winona Newspaper Project | Minnesota | A digital archive of three newspapers from Winona County, Minnesota: the Argus, the Daily Republican, and the Republican Herald. Contents span the late 19th and early 20th centuries. | Freely Available |
| Missouri Digital Heritage--Newspapers | Missouri | Formerly: Historical Missouri Newspapers Project. Online archive of historic newspapers from St. Louis and other locations throughout the state of Missouri. Some issues go back to the late 1800s...."Through the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative, the Missouri State Archives and the Missouri State Library, in partnership with the State Historical Society of Missouri, are assisting institutions across the state in digitizing their records and placing them online for easy access.." | Freely Available |
| Collegiate Chronicle | A prototype student newspaper repository aggregating newspapers from colleges and universities across the USA | Freely Available | |
| American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries | UIUC Only | ||
| Student Newspaper Collection | Freely Available | ||
| Stars and Stripes | The American Soldiers' newspaper of World War I. Includes the complete seventy-one-week run of the newspaper's World War I edition. | Freely Available | |
| ProQuest Civil War Era | 9 major newspapers (Richmond Daily Dispatch, Charleston Mercury, New Orleans Picayune, Boston Herald, New York Herald, Louisville Daily Journal, Memphis Daily Appeal, Columbus Gazette, and Ohio State Journal) published between 1840 and 1865 | UIUC Only | |
| Las Vegas Age Digital Collection | Nevada | Read about early Las Vegas history straight from the source! Full complete digital images of the Las Vegas Age digitized from the print copies from the Special Collections of the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District. From April 7, 1905 to December 27, 1924. | Freely Available |
| Northern New York Historical Newspapers | New York | Northern New York Historical Newspapers provides indexed access to selected historical newspapers from Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties in New York state. | Freely Available |
| Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online | New York | Digitized pages of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York. | Freely Available |
| Suffolk Historic Newspapers | New York | Suffolk Historic Newspapers is a centralized, searchable collection of historic newspapers published in Suffolk County, New York. | Freely Available |
| Friend of Man at Cornell University Library | New York | A near-comprehensive collection of The Friend of Man, an early reform era and abolitionist paper published in Central New York State. The archive includes 281 issues, from 1836-1842. | Freely Available |
| Freedom's Journal | New York | Freedom's Journal was the first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the US from 1827 to 1829. All 103 issues have been digitized. | Freely Available |
| Pennsylvania Historical Newspapers | Pennsylvania | Features digitized collections created by libraries and other entities located throughout Pennsylvania. Primary focus is on collections of interest to the citizens of Pennsylvania. Several newspaper collections are included. | Freely Available |
| Franklin and Marshall Student Newspaper Collection | Pennsylvania | Freely Available | |
| Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers | Pennsylvania | Online archive of select PA newspapers published during or around the time of the American Civil War. | Freely Available |
| Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project | Pennsylvania | The Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project is composed of The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1947), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-2010). | Freely Available |
| Utah Digital Newspapers | Utah | Digitized historic newspapers published in Utah during the late 1800's into the 1900's. | Freely Available |
| Wyoming Newspaper Project | Wyoming | Discover the stories that formed Wyoming, through the Wyoming Newspaper Project. Currently provides access to newspapers printed in Wyoming between 1849 and 1922, in an easily searchable format. | Freely Available |
Major collections of digitized newspapers from around the world are listed here. Browse/Search the UIUC Library Newspaper Database for access to hundreds of titles. Use drop down boxes to limit by country. Also browse a list of international digital newspaper projects (Maintained by the Center for Research Libraries).
| Title | Country | Description | Online Access |
| Afghanistan Digital Library | Afghanistan | Contains select issues of periodicals and newspapers, including Shams al-nahar, the first newspaper published in Afghanistan, Anis (Apr. 27, 1931-Apr. 25 1932), and Mu'arrif-i ma'arif. Page images only. | Freely Available |
| Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 | Australia | The Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 component of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP) provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845. The digitised copies were produced from microfilm. In most cases, new microfilm was produced so that a suitable digital image could be produced. | Freely Available |
| Australian Newspapers (National Library of Australia) | Australia | Historic Australian Newspapers from 1803 to 1954. Ongoing project of the National Library of Australia. | Freely Available |
| ANNO: Austrian Newspaper Online | Austria | Includes archives of historical Austrian Newspapers, in German | Freely Available |
| Belgian Press Collection | Belgium | A small digital collection of Belgian Newspapers dating from the mid-nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. | Freely Available |
| La Presse Quotidien | France | Online archive of historic French newspapers from the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century, reflecting political, economic, literary, artistic and scientific thought of the times. | Freely Available |
| National Library of Greece: e-fimeris | Greece | Online archive of several Greek historical newspapers. Links to English site. | Freely Available |
| Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online | Germany | Pre-1933 issues freely available online. | Freely Available |
| German-Language Exile Journals 1933-1945 | Germany | In this project, the Deutsches Exilarchiv 1933 - 1945 of Die Deutsche Bibliothek digitalised select exile newspapers and journals held by it, and supplemented by the Sammlung Exil-Literatur 1933 - 1945 of the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig and other libraries. | Freely Available |
| Sächsische Landesbibliothek | Germany | Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden - Historische Zeitungen und Zeitschriften contains digitized images of newspapers from the region of Saxony. Contains Leipziger Zeitungen (1740), Sachsenzeitung (1830-1834), and others. | Freely Available |
| Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg - Zeitschriften und Zeitungen | Germany | A small collection of German language 19th and early-to-mid 20th century newspapers from the University of Heidelberg. | Freely Available |
| Irish Newspaper Archives | Ireland | The Irish Newspaper Archive contains over 6 million pages in over 500,000 issues of Irish Newspaper publications. With national daily editions such as the Irish Independent, regional weekly editions including the Connacht Tribune, Kerryman and Anglo-Celt and out of print publications such as the Freeman's Journal and The Nation. "...Spanning back as far as 1763 with issues been converted from microfilm and running right up to current date where more recent issues are presented in full color.. | UIUC Only |
| eluxemburgensia | Luxembourg | Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg: eluxemburgensia. National Library of Luxembourg, in French and German | Freely Available |
| National Library of Latvia | Latvia | Online archive of several Latvian titles. Links to English site. | Freely Available |
| Papers Past (New Zealand) | New Zealand | Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1932 and includes 52 publications from all regions of New Zealand. | Freely Available |
| Biblioteca Nacional de Espana | Spain | A large digital collection of Spanish newspapers from the National Library of Spain. | Freely Available |
| Temps Archives Historiques | Switzerland | Includes the complete holdings of The Journal de Geneve, Gazette de Lausanne, and the Nouveau Quotidien, three daily newspapers that were the forerunners of Le Temps (Switzerland). | Freely Available |
| Thai Newspaper Collection (World War II) | Thailand | Digital Collection of three Newspapers published in Thailand during the World War II. This collection includes some issues which are hard to find in Thailand. All three agencies are not in existence at present. | Freely Available |
| JPRESS (Historical Jewish Press) project | Unknown/Multiple | The project currently includes almost 900,000 pages of digitized with OCR Jewish newspapers from all over the world. The site currently has 35 titles in 5 languages, including Hebrew, English, Yiddish, Hungarian, and French. New titles are constantly being added to the site. The site currently contains material that ranges from the early-1840's until 1987. | Freely Available |
| Gallica – National Library of France (BNF) | Unknown/Multiple | Gallica, the digital library of the Bibliothéque nationale de France, hosts numerous newspaper titles from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Notable titles currently include Le Figaro (1826-1942), Le Temps (1861-1937), La Croix (1880-1944), L'Humanité (1904-1944), La Presse (1836-1922), and Le Journal des débats (1814-1944), among others. More titles forthcoming. | Freely Available |
| Compact Memory | Unknown/Multiple | Compact Memory: Internetarchiv Jüdischer Periodika. Archive of Jewish periodicals from 1806 to 1938, in German | Freely Available |
| Early Alberta Newspaper Collection | Canada | The Alberta Newspaper Collection contains Alberta, Canada newspaperss from 1880 to 1950. | Freely Available |
| Multicultural Canada | Canada | A collection of audio files, published text such as books and newspapers, and unpublished text which document the multicultural influences that have contributed to Canada’s history. | Freely Available |
| Manitobia: Life and Time | Canada | A rich archive of newspapers, images, and other primary source material chronicling the history of Manitobia Canada. | Freely Available |
| Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers | Canada | Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management present page image-access to seven different newspapers published in four very different Nova Scotia communities over a span of 210 years-from The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser in 1769, to The 4th Estate in 1977. | Freely Available |
| Special Editions of Canadian Newspapers | Canada | From the National Library of Canada, this collection consists of special color supplements to historical newspapers published in Canada. | Freely Available |
| Prince George Newspapers Project | Canada | Daily newspaper covering Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Includes every edition from their first year, 1916, through 1961. | Freely Available |
| British Library Online Newspaper Archive | United Kingdom | Access to selected, searchable facsimile issues of London's Daily News, The News of the World and The Weekly Dispatch, and The Manchester Guardian | Freely Available |
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