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Databases of historical newspapers
- America's Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Contains digital copies of articles from about 1,000 American newspapers from all the current 50 states and the District of Columbia printed between 1690 and 1900, with strongest coverage of the first half of the 19th century.
Purchase was made possible, in part, by the President's Initiative Fund. - Early American Newspapers, Series I This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive online source of early American newspapers that chronicles the evolution of American history, culture, daily life from 1690 to 1922.
- Early American Newspapers, Series II This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive online source of early American newspapers that chronicles the evolution of American history, culture, daily life from 1758-1900.
- Accessible Archives Complete This link opens in a new windowThis may not be very helpful for this topic, but might be worth a quick look.
A collection of American newspapers, magazines, and other primary source materials, mostly from the 19th century, but with some 18th century items. Newspapers and magazines include the Virginia Gazette, Pennsylvania Gazette, The Liberator, Godey's Lady's Book, and a selection of African American newspapers. Books include a large collection of county histories, Civil War memoirs and regimental histories, and more. To browse the contents of any one publication, click on the "Collections" option. - Gale newsvault This link opens in a new windowFor this project, you may not want to spend much time with this resource but it could be worth a quick check to see if you find anything relevant. The Gale newsvault searches all of Gale's historical newspapers and collections. Most of these are UK publications, but it does include 19th U.S. newspapers.
- New York Times, The, Historical Newspaper This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times beginning with the first issue in 1851.
- Sabin Americana This link opens in a new windowSabin Americana contains works about the Americas published worldwide from 1500 to the early 1900's.