Historical Newspapers - Open Access and Subscription Based

Browse by State then Browse by City then Browse by Title. Click on the Title.

Important - after clicking on Title click on the rather small icon that appears on the map on the righthand side of the page.

Search options include “All of the Words” or “Exact Phrase” or “Any of the Words”
Can also limit search “Between” “On” “Before” or “After" a specific date or set of dates.

“Online collections made available by the Advantage Archives (formerly Advantage Preservation) company, which has contracted with several hundred libraries and other institutions across the U.S. to digitize and host their online newspaper collections.”

The Library of Congress has archived over 3,000 different U.S. historical newspapers from 1789 to 1963

Advanced Search allows searching of a specific newspaper.

Advanced Search can be focused by date/year, by Front page or specific page, and language.

Advanced Search can be focused by looking for “Any” one of multiple words entered, “All” of the words entered, a specific “Phrase”.

Advanced Search will also allow you to search for sentences that contain two words that are within a specified number of words of each other.

Browse papers by choosing “All Digitized Newspapers” option and then limiting by state or ethnicity or language.

Thousands of U.S. and international newspapers from 1738 to 2009

Though the archive can be searched with a basic Google search - it can’t be limited by date.

To focus on a specific date the newspapers can be browsed.