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Freely Available History Resources

A guide to finding freely available historical newspapers, magazines, and books.

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HathiTrust - Archive of Magazines and Books published before 1929

Chronicling America 1789-1963 - Historical Newspapers Digitized by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

Digitized Historical Magazines (freely available to the public)

Historical Digitized Magazines freely available to the public. Also includes magazines owned by UNI Rod Library in digital, print and microfilm formats.

      

Digital Public Library of America

Historical U.S. Newspapers by State (includes freely available and UNI only digitized newspapers)

Newspaper Banners from the 1890s - Open Access Newspaper Archives by State

Iowa Digitized Newspapers (freely available to the public)

Digitized historical Iowa newspapers freely available to the public

Historical Black Newspapers and Magazines

Historical Black (African American) Newspapers and Magazines

Internet Archive

europeanana

JSTOR Early Journal Content and Open Access Journals