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Historical American Newspapers on the Internet

A selection of resources freely available online, in alphabetical order by state. For states not included here, please check the Library of Congress's Chronicling America site above.

• Alabama Civil War and Reconstruction Newspapers

Made available by the Alabama Department of Archives & History.

• Alaska: Tundra Times

1962 -1997, searchable full text. The "voice of Alaskan Natives."

• Arizona Historical Newspapers

1859-1937. Searchable and browsable collection of newspapers from across the state, with varying coverage.

• California Digital Newspaper Collection

Searchable full text back to 1846. Material is also made available through the Chronicling America site

• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection

1859 -1923, searchable full text in digitized facsimile of the originals. Includes 147 newspapers, representing 60 cities and 40 counties. Titles published in English, German, Spanish and Swedish.

• Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Includes historic and current Florida newspapers. Searchable full text. Also includes sub-collections of Ethnic Newspapers from Florida and Florida Jewish Newspapers.

• Georgia Historic Newspapers Information

1763-2017. Searchable full text in digitized facsimile

• Hawaiian Nupepa Collection

1834-1948. Searchable full text. Newspapers in the Hawaiian language.

• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections

1831-2011. Searchable full text. Contains 129 titles with varying coverage.

• Indiana: Hoosier State Chronicles

1804-2011. Searchable full text. Includes newspapers from across the state with varying coverage.

• Iowa Historical Newspapers

1837-2017. List of searchable full text newspapers from many sources compiled by the University of Northern Iowa.

• Kansas Historical Open Content

1873-1922. Searchable full text. Includes three newspapers. Others available through Chronicling America site.

• Louisiana: New Orleans Bee / L'Abeille de la Nouvelle-Orléans

1827-1923. Non-searchable full text in pdf format. French language newspaper with an English section and briefly (from 1829 to 1830) a Spanish section.

• Maine Newspaper Project

1829-2016. Searchable full text. Compilation of digitized Maine newspapers from a variety of different sources.

• Michigan: Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal

List of searchable full text newspapers from many sources compiled by Central Michigan University.

• Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub

1850-Present. Searchable full text. Most issues published less than 95 years ago are not accessible online.

• Missouri Newspaper Project

1808 -1994. Searchable full text in digitized facsimile of the original. Includes newspapers from counties across the state, covering varying time periods.

• Montana Newspapers

1883-2017. Searchable full text. Includes newspapers from across the state with varying coverage.

• Nebraska Newspapers

1854-1987. Searchable full text. Includes 66 Nebraska newspapers with varying coverage.

• New Jersey: Atlantic County Digitized Newspapers

1860-1923. Searchable full text in pdf format. Includes ten titles from Atlantic County (including Atlantic City)

• New Mexico Historical Newspapers

1852-1948. Searchable full text. Newspapers from across the state of varying coverage, hosted by the University of New Mexico.

• New York: Brooklyn Newsstand

1841-1963. Searchable full text. Includes the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Brooklyn Life.

• New York: Suffolk County Historic Newspapers

1822-Present. Searchable full text of newspapers published in Suffolk County, New York (Long Island), in digitized facsimile of the originals.

• New York State Historic Newspapers

1725-2018. Covers many newspapers, varying years for each. Searchable by county.

• North Carolina Newspapers

List of searchable full text newspapers from the University of North Carolina. Titles from across the state, including student newspapers.

• Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program

Searchable full text newspapers across the state, covering varying time periods. Currently includes 749 titles.

• Oregon: Historic Oregon Newspapers

1846-2019. Searchable full text of newspapers from across the state, with varying coverage.

• Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspaper Collection

1831-1880. Searchable, full text digital facsimile of the originals. Can also be browsed by issue.
Includes titles from across the state, with varying years of coverage.

• Rhode Island Online Historical Newspapers

List of searchable full text newspapers available largely through Google News.

• South Carolina: Historical Newspapers

Full text newspapers from across the state. Searchable by county.

• Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Searchable full text of newspapers from across the state, with varying coverage.

• Utah Digital Newspapers Project

1850-2018. Searchable full text in digitized facsimile of the originals. Includes many newspapers from across the state, with varying years of coverage. This project also contributes to the Chronicling America project

• Virginia Chronicle

Searchable full text newspapers from across the state, with varying coverage.

• Virginia Gazettes: Williamsburg Newspapers

1736-1780. From Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Browsable but not searchable.

• Washington: Historic Newspapers

1852-1892. Searchable full text. Includes newspapers from across the state with varying coverage. Also offers broad subject browsing.

• West Virginia Newspapers

1840-2009. Links to newspapers from across the state, available through different resources. From the Potomac State College Library of the University of West Virginia.

• Wyoming Newspapers Project

1849-1970. Searchable full text. Includes over 340 titles, with varying coverage.