Primary Source Collections

Searches 40+ historical newspapers from across the US, as well as a few international newspapers.

NewspaperARCHIVE.com contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper in the archive is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. Content can be searched or browsed by date, location, or publication.

Selected scanned newspapers from around the world. Dates covered vary by title.

Provides historical access (1893-2010) to this Black newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.

Provides historical access (1905-2010) to the Black newspapers The Chicago Defender and The Chicago Daily Defender with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.

Ebony is one of the key Afro-American magazines of the 20th century. This archive provides access to its first issue in 1945 through 2014.

Provides access to Jet magazine from its first issue in 1951 through 2014. Covers the civil rights movement, politics, education, and other social topics with an African American focus.

Provides historical access (1934-2005) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1922-1993) to the Black newspapers The New York Amsterdam News and the New York Amsterdam Star-News with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time. Content, includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more.

Provides historical access (1912-2001) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1911-2002) to the Courier, New Pittsburgh Courier, and Pittsburgh Courier, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1857-1922) to the newspapers The American Hebrew, The Jewish Messenger, and The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger, from New York, NY.

Provides historical access (1854-2000) to this newspaper from Cincinnati, OH.

American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.

Provides historical access (1890-2007) to the Arizona Republic and Arizona Republican with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1870-1980) to The Austin American Statesman, The Austin American, the Austin Daily Statesman, the Daily Democratic Statesman, and other titles in this newspaper's history, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Baltimore Sun full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1837-1989. Includes indexing and abstracting of the newspaper with fully searchable text.

Provides historical access (1841-2009) to the Cincinnati Enquirer, The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, the Daily Enquirer and Message, and Enquirer and Message with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1898-1922) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1831-1999) to the Detroit Free Press, the Daily Free Press, the Democratic Free Press, the Democratic Free Press & Michigan Intelligencer, and the Semi Weekly Free Press with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Established in 1908 by the Polish National Alliance, Dziennik Zwiazkowy continues to be published today as the Polish Daily News. This database includes the first ten years (1908-1917) of publication, which represent local, national and international issues of utmost concern to the Polish community of Chicago at that time.

Provides historical access (1844-2019) to The Globe and The Globe and Mail, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Provides historical access (1764-1997) to the Connecticut Courant, The Connecticut Courant and Hartford Weekly Intelligencer, the Hartford Daily Courant, and The Hartford Courant, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1903-2004) to the Indianapolis Star and Indianapolis Morning Star, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1905-1990) to the Jewish Advocate and the Boston Advocate, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1887-1990) to this newspaper from Philadelphia, PA.

This historical newspaper provides researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

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New York Times full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1851-2001. Includes indexing and abstracting of the newspaper with fully searchable text back to the first issue.

Provides historical access (1874-2003) to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the St. Louis Evening Post, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1865-1922) to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Call-Chronicle-Examiner, The Daily Dramatic Chronicle and The Daily Morning Chronicle, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1894-2019) to the Toronto Star, the Toronto Daily Star, and Evening Star, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Wall Street Journal full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1899-2000. Includes indexing and abstracting of the newspaper with fully searchable text back to the first issue.

Washington Post full page and article images (.pdfs) from 1877-2001. Includes indexing and abstracting of the newspaper with fully searchable text back to the first issue.

The collection includes 839 publications documenting events in Mexico's pre-independence, independence and revolutionary periods (1807-1929).

Provides historical access (1817-1950) to The Scotsman and The Daily Scotsman, from Edinburgh, Scotland.

This database provides access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
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Provides historical access (1859-2019) to the Irish Times, the Weekly Irish Times, the Irish Pictorial, and the Times Pictorial, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access to a collection of Chinese newspapers, including The Canton Times, The China Critic, The China Press, China Monthly Review, Millard's Review of the Far East, The Weekly Review, The Chinese Recorder, and The Chinese Repository. Coverage dates vary by title, but ranger from 1832- 1953.

The collection includes 292 publications from across China documenting the turbulent period between the end of the Qing dynasty and the creation of the People's Republic of China.

The CRL Southeast Asian Newspapers collection chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during the mid-19th to mid-20th c.. It covers countries from the region, including Myanmar (formerly Burma), Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and features multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

The collection includes 84 publications documenting events from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the demonstrations of the Arab Spring.

Provides historical access (1932-2008) to the Palestine Post Incorporating the Palestine Bulletin, The Palestine Post, and The Jerusalem Post, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1950-2016) to this newspaper with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

Provides historical access (1838-2010) to The Times of India, The Bombay Times and Standard, and The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts of the politics, society and events of the time.

An explosion of periodicals and other printed materials erupted out of the 1848 revolution in France. The major papers such as Le Nation and La Réforme were surrounded on all sides by newspapers, pamphlets, and other periodicals presenting opinions and hourly news on the developments of the provisional government. The spontaneity, variety, and abundance of these papers makes them an outstanding source for uncovering the cultural, political, social, and other aspects of the French revolution of 1848.