Research Guides: Historical Newspapers: Historical Newspapers

Find Historical Newspapers (Digitized and Microfilm)

Montclair Times
Library also subscribes to the weekly print version of the Montclair Times. Latest issue located in the Periodicals Office. Years 1972-2000 available on microfilm. Location: Multimedia Department
Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)
Years 1959-2009 available on microfilm. Location Multimedia Department.
Inventory of New Jersey Newspapers on Microfilm (Newark Public Library)
Newark Daily Advertiser (1832-1907), the Newark News (1883-1972), the Newark Star Ledger (1907-1964) then Star-Ledger (1964- ) Newark Library has a near-complete run of all three papers.
For reference questions, research services, and to order copies, call the New Jersey Information Center at (973) 733-7775 or email njreference@npl.org.
New Jersey Digitial Newspaper Project
New Jersey State Library is a partner in the New Jersey Digital Newspaper Project. This guide indexes all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey, whether currently available or in process, including links and other access information.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
13 newspapers from New Jersey are available for viewing on this site.

New York Times, (Historical)
New York Times articles from 1851 to the present.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside.
Contains over 400,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-1922.
New York State Historic Newspapers
Provides free online access to a wide range of newspapers throughout New York State. Significant runs of historic newspapers for every county in the state are digitized and made freely available for research. The years covered are 1803 to 2011.
Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection (Penn State)
Contains all the words, photographs, and advertisements from selected newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War.
Google News Archives
Alphabetical listing of Newspaper Archives from the U.S. as well as from many others countries across the world.
Newspaper Cat (Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers)
This database facilitates the discovery of online digitized historical newspaper content from newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean. NewspaperCat was funded by a grant from the George A. Smathers Libraries.
Newspaper Research Links
Offers state lists of digitized newspaper projects, over 1,000 links.
Virginia Chronicle
Historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over a million newspaper pages.
This collection contains 169,770 issues comprising 1,225,643 pages and 183,885 articles.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Search and view newspaper pages from 1789-1963 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

African-American Experience in Ohio (1850-1920)
Created by Ohio Historical Society. Digital collection from a number of individual sources including newspaper articles. Click newspaper link under Browse.
African-American Newspapers
119 digitized newspapers, part of the Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers from Library of Congress.
Black Press Research Collective
Interdisciplinary group of scholars committed to generating digital scholarship about the historical and contemporary role of black newspapers in Africa and the African Diasporas.

Black Studies Center
Fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and more. Includes essential resources such as The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975. Full text.

Friend of Man
Friend of Man is one of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and other reform movements. Published in Central New York State. Cornell has a complete set of Friend of Man, 283 issues, published from 1836 - 1842.

Historical Jewish Press
From Tel Aviv University contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. Close to 100 newspapers from United States.

Montclarion Student Newspaper (Old Issues)
Archives of the MSU student newspaper published in previous years.