United States Newspapers Collections

Online Connecticut Newspapers by Town

Connecticut has a rich newspaper history, with over 2,000 distinct publications since 1755, beginning with the Connecticut Gazette. While they serve genealogists through vital announcements, newspapers also document local events, legal matters, and business updates. A comprehensive list of 258 historical and current newspapers is available online, organized by town and publication date. Some papers, like the Norwich Bulletin, are especially valuable for family history research. For towns without digitized newspapers, exploring nearby options is advised.

Hudson River Valley Heritage Newspapers

HRVH Historical Newspapers provides access to digitized copies of historical newspapers from the Hudson River Valley region of New York State. Each newspaper in HRVH Historical Newspapers has its own page with information about the publication, including the date range that is available online and information about the history of the newspaper.

New York Historical Newspapers

A list of approximately 1200 newspapers available for free on the NY Historic Newspapers website broken down by the county they were published in.

Virginia Newspaper Project

Daily Press, Volume 4, Number 175, 26 July 1899

This dataset contains 672 newspaper titles that have been digitized and freely placed online for the state of Virginia. Virginia Chronicle is a rich historical archive of Virginia newspapers. It offers free access to fully searchable texts and digitized images of over 4 million newspaper pages.

Illinois Historical Newspapers Online

This is a list of Illinois historical newspapers images and transcriptions available online. They are organized by website and then alphabetically within each website listing. Some titles may appear more than once, as the images might be hosted on multiple websites. It’s important to check all listings for a particular newspaper to ensure you find the best quality scans.

South Dakota Historical Newspapers

This page provides links to all available South Dakota historical newspaper images and transcriptions found online by AccessGenealogy. Organized alphabetically by town or city.

Historical California Newspapers Online

These historical California newspapers were placed online in digital format by a variety of sources and are here collected for convenient usage. These papers are listed in alphabetical order and you will need to know the specific newspaper you are looking for.

Illinois Newspaper Collection

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library has digitized over 200,000 pages from 131 pre-1922 newspapers, which are now accessible through both their platform and the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America collection. The diverse range of titles includes notable publications such as the Daily Illini and the Cairo Bulletin. This initiative aims to preserve and enhance access to historically significant media, allowing researchers and the public to explore Illinois’s rich journalistic heritage.

Alabama Online Historical Newspapers

Alabama has a rich newspaper history, with over 2,300 titles published since the first newspaper, the Mobile Centinel, in 1811. Currently, the availability of online historical newspapers is limited, primarily due to insufficient digitization efforts. While Newspapers.com holds over 500 digital collections, many require paid subscriptions. Significant efforts by the Alabama Department of Archives and History have digitized Civil War-era papers, but accessibility and quality can vary. Researchers are encouraged to explore neighboring counties if their own lack online historical newspapers.

Boone County Recorder Newspaper 1875-1953

Boone County Recorder vol 1 No 1 23 Sep 1875 Issue

This collection comprises 78 volumes of newspapers (1 volume per year) of the Boone County Recorder (1875-1953), a newspaper continuously published every week for over 140 years. Best copy available of each issue. Volume 41 (1915) and Volumes 52-54 (1926-1929) are missing from this collection. Volume 1 starts with 23 Sept 1875.

Chronicling America Historical Newspapers

Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. An NEH award program will fund the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.

Ancestry’s Historical Newspaper Collection

Ancestry has placed 1266 historical newspaper’s in it’s collection covering a wide range of years. To make it easier to understand what is available, we have broken these down into states, and then alphabetically by name of the newspaper. The description contains the year(s) available for the newspaper, the number of issues is unknown. The newspapers can be browsed or searched using a computer-generated index. The accuracy of the index varies according to the quality of the original images. The images for each newspaper can be browsed sequentially, or via links to specific images, which may be obtained through the search results. Over time, the name of a newspaper may have changed and the time span it covered may not always be consistent. The date range represented in this database is not necessarily the complete published set available. Check the local library or historical society in the area in which your ancestors lived for more information about other available newspapers.

Small Town Newspapers

Small Town Papers gives you access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries! Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition! Their archives contain millions of names of ancestors not found anywhere else. Enhance your Ancestry research with their high resolution scanned newspaper archive. Find distant relatives and discover your ethnic heritage by reading the articles about family and friends written back in the day.

The Stillwater Messenger, 1861-1874

Front page of the Stillwater Messenger, vol 5 no 16

The 135 issues of the Stillwater Messenger placed online by the Minnesota Historical Society comprise of 1 issue per week (multiple issues are present in each film) of a period from 1 Jan 1861 – 4 Dec 1874. There is a gap in the issues here presented, and that is from 11 Mar 1868 – 09 Dec 1870. This is the period of time in which the Stillwater Messenger was published as the Stillwater Republican.

Index to Articles found in the El Farol Newspaper 1905-1906

The Lincoln County New Mexico online archives contains pdf’s of all remaining copies of the El Farol Newspaper of Capitan NM, but doesn’t have an index to the newspaper. C. W. Barnum, an active member of AHGP, and state coordinator for the New Mexico AHGP recently invested his time and energy into providing an every person index to the various extant issues. He has shared this wonderful index with AccessGenealogy in hopes that it will reach a wider audience. Enjoy!

Free Missouri Historical Newspapers Online

This page represents 37 free historical newspapers spread out over the state of Missouri since its founding into the 1900’s. All of them have at least a partial online representation.

WPA Annals of Cleveland Ohio, 1818-1937

During the New Deal Era, workers of Annals of Cleveland staff summarized and indexed material from early Cleveland newspapers, beginning with the inaugural issue of the city’s first paper, the July 31, 1818 Cleaveland Gazette and Commercial Register. The project provided jobs for unemployed white-collar workers during the Depression of the 1930s and created an important record of early life and thought in the city of Cleveland.

Lowell Massachusetts Newspaper Archives 1837-1893

The University of Massachusetts at Lowell offers digitized archives of newspapers from Lowell, Massachusetts, spanning 1837 to 1893, including The Lowell Courier and the Lowell Daily Journal and Courier. While these records provide a rich historical resource, some issues are incomplete or damaged. The archives detail numerous editions throughout the years, capturing significant local events and community narratives, though future updates may supplement the existing material.

Rogers Hall School Splinters 1900-1969

Rogers Hall School Splinters - A monthly literary magazine

The University of Massachusetts at Lowell digitized 23 bound volumes of the Rogers Hall School Splinters monthly literary magazine, for the years of 1900-1969. Each volume contains several years of the Rogers Hall school papers. School papers often provide a window into student life. From sports teams to clubs, fashions to hairstyles, these volumes document the changing attitudes and culture of high school students year by year.

History of the Courier Newspaper – Lowell Massachusetts

The Lowell Courier was established on January 6, 1835, by Leonard Huntress during a period of political vibrancy in Lowell. Initially a Whig newspaper, it has continued publication as The Lowell Courier-Citizen. Huntress, the first editor, faced health issues by 1842, leading to a series of editors, including Robins Dinsmore and William O. Bartlett. In 1867, George A. Marden and Edward T. Rowell acquired the paper, elevating its political influence in New England. Marden became a prominent political figure, shaping the paper’s direction until his death in 1906.