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Primary Sources - Historical Newspapers

Historical Newspapers

 

Chronicling America

Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic United States newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages covering the period 1836-1922.  The site 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).

Google News Archive

Hundreds of historical newspapers from around the world. Many are not complete runs of the paper.

ICON: Newspaper digitization

ICON provides links to past, present, and prospective digitization projects of historic newspapers in the United States and the world.

Library of Congress Newspapers Online

A list of newspapers accessible through the Library of Congress Website. Includes links to other sites of digitized newspapers.

Afro American Newspapers

Extensive collection of digitally archived issues spanning over 100 years of history. Produced in cooperation with Google. 

New Jersey Digitized Historic Newspapers

Indexes all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey and links to full text when freely available. 

New York State Newspapers

List and links to historical newspapers published throughout the State of New York.

Pennsylvania Gazette

The Pennsylvania Gazette was published in Philadelphia from 1728 through 1800 and provides first hand reporting of colonial America, the American Revolution, and the early republic.  The Gazette was considered one of the leading papers in its time. National and State Newspapers.