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Historical Newspapers: Web Resources

This page lists free web resources with historical newspapers from the U.S. and beyond.

U.S. Historical Newspapers: Web Resources

There is a wealth of free historical newspaper content available online. The websites below are useful starting points for your search. In addition to using these, try searching a search engine like Google for the type of newspapers you want (e.g., historical newspapers Africa, newspapers Civil War).

American Memory
Media and materials documenting American history from the Library of Congress.
American Prison Newspapers, 1800s-present: Voices from the Inside
A growing collection of digitized content from among the over 700 prison newspapers in the US. Includes content from the 1800s to today.
AP Archive
Film and video archive of The Associated Press, one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent news-gathering. Global news and entertainment video stories dating back to 1895.
ArchiveGrid
Gateway to locating holdings of the archival collection of thousands of participating libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (Library of Congress)
Set the date range for the period of interest. Begin with basic search term, then add terms for more precise results.
Digital Collections of the New York Public Library
Extensive collections digitized from the New York Public Library's collections.
Digital Public Library of America
Historical, cultural, artistic, and scientific works from the collections of U.S. libraries, archives, and museums
Google News Archives
Hundreds of newspapers are included in the Archives listed Alphabetically
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. In the Advanced Search or on a search results page, limit the Original Format to newspapers.
Independent Voices
Digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals from participating libraries' special collections.
Internet Archive, Newspapers
This search for newspapers in the internet Archive returns a large number of hits. You can browse the return or redo the search with more specific terms.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress catalog contains 17 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections.
National Archives and Records Administration
Extensive collections of U.S. historical documents

Historical Newspapers: Global Web Resources

AP Archive
Film and video archive of The Associated Press, one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent news-gathering. Global news and entertainment video stories dating back to 1895.
ArchiveGrid
Gateway to locating holdings of the archival collection of thousands of participating libraries, museums, and archives. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.
Global Press Archive
Digital news sources from around the world, from 1767-present. An initiative of Stanford Libraries and the Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Google News Archives
Hundreds of newspapers are included in the Archives listed Alphabetically
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. In the Advanced Search or on a search results page, limit the Original Format to newspapers.
Internet Archive, Newspapers
This search for newspapers in the internet Archive returns a large number of hits. You can browse the return or redo the search with more specific terms.
South Asia Open Archives (SAOA)
Digitized print archives, including newspapers, serials, journals, colonial reports, censuses, government documents, and more.

NJ Newspapers

New Jersey Digitized Historic Newspapers
Index of all known digitized newspapers in New Jersey. Maintained by New Jersey State Library.

Historical Newspapers: New Jersey Collection (Proquest) This link opens in a new window
(Rowan login required) State and local news coverage. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in PDF format. For newspapers still publishing, coverage extends to within days of the current issue.

New Jersey Newspapers (NewsBank)
(Rowan login required) 185 NJ newspapers available through the database NewsBank Access World News. Some content is text only, some includes text and images.
Press of Atlantic City
(Rowan login required) Full text only. Coverage 1988-present
The Record (Hackensack)
(Rowan login required) Full text only. Coverage 1985-present.

Trenton Times Current and Historical This link opens in a new window
(Rowan login required) Includes content from the web edition of the Times of Trenton (NJ) 2007 - Current, Trenton Times 1993- current. Some content is text only, some includes images and text.