U.S. and World Newspapers in Library Databases
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Access NewspaperARCHIVE
Note: Subscription cancelled effective July 1, 2025. See Newspapers.com Library Edition: World Collection for historical newspaper content going forward.
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Access World News: Research Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text current and archived articles from U.S. and global news sources. Date coverage varies with individual newspaper.
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African American Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text digitized newspapers from the 1800s, written by African Americans for African Americans. Also provides early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements.
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Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive This link opens in a new window
Index to journal, newspaper and magazine articles from international alternative, radical and left periodicals from 1969-present.
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American Periodicals Series This link opens in a new window
Full text digitized reproductions of more than 1,500 eighteenth and nineteenth century American newspapers and periodicals archived at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). Titles include general interest, children's, women's, early scientific, and professional publications that chronicle the development of America across 150 years published from 1740-1940.
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Burney Collection - Seventeenth & Eighteenth Century Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text digitized newspapers, pamphlets, proclamations, and newsbooks from 17th and 18th century English news media. Mainly materials published in London, with some papers from provincial England, Ireland, Scotland, the American colonies, Europe, and India. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.
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Chicago Defender Historical This link opens in a new window
(1909-1975) Full text digitized newspaper covering politics, society, and events of the time from an African-American perspective
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Chicago Tribune Historical This link opens in a new window
(1849-2014) Full text digitized newspaper. Includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover.
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Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text of current newspaper, magazine, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, as well as historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Specific ethnic groups include African American/Caribbean/African, Arab/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, European/Eastern European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native. See also the Diversity Collection to search Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch and Alt-PressWatch in one platform.
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GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
Full text of scholarly and popular articles and gray literature titles focusing on the evolution of gender roles in society. Covers topics related to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender studies; family studies; gender studies, and women's studies from 1970-present. See also the Diversity Collection to search Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch and Alt-PressWatch in one platform.
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Lily, The: A Temperance and Feminist Newspaper, 1849-1856 This link opens in a new window
Full text digitized version of the first newspaper for women, covering temperance, child-bearing and education, women's rights, and laws, among other topics.
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Los Angeles Times Historical This link opens in a new window
(1881-2016) Full text digitized newspaper. Includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover.
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New York Times Historical This link opens in a new window
(1851-2021) Full text digitized newspaper articles. Includes complete paper, cover-to-cover.
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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Full text digitized newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Includes major newspapers as well as those published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, the Confederacy, and other groups and interests. Also included are illustrated papers that bring the nineteenth century to life through the drawings of many artists. Note: Access the collection from Gale Primary Sources to cross-search a wider range of digital collections.
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Washington Post Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
(1877-2008) Full text digitized newspaper. Includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover.
Newspaper Indexes
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Montana Kaimin IndexUniversity of Montana student newspaper, 1973-present.
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Wikipedia List of Online Newspaper ArchivesA comprehensive list of online newspaper archives. This website contains both free and subscription archives from around the world.
Newspapers on the Web
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Char-Koosta NewsPublished by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation, the newspaper started in 1956 and continued through five decades.
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Chronicling America: Historic American NewspapersSearch America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Google News ArchiveContains newspapers digitized by Google, along with newspapers digitized elsewhere and crawled by Google, with coverage for many titles extending as far back as the early nineteenth century. U.S. newspapers make up the majority of the content, but international titles are also included, especially from Canada and Mexico. Use the advanced search to specify dates and newspaper titles.
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Irish Newspaper ArchivesThe world's largest online database of Irish newspapers with coverage from the 1700s to the present.
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Montana Historical Newspapers GuideIndex to Montana historical newspapers in print or microfilm at the Mansfield Library or in digital form elsewhere.
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Montana KaiminThe Montana Kaimin is the University of Montana's official student newspaper. It started as a magazine that was published monthly during the school year from 1898 to June 1909. It became a weekly in December 1909 and finally a near-daily publication in January 1939. The print publication returned to a weekly in April 2015. The issues from 1898-2002 in this online collection were digitized from the physical print issues held by Archives and Special Collections at the University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library. Issues from 2003-2015 were supplied as born-digital files by students in the Montana Kaimin office.
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Montana NewspapersThis full-text searchable database contains 655,657 pages from 104 Montana town, county, school and tribal newspapers dated 1873-2018.