Public libraries and archives throughout the United States offer access to collections of historical newspapers. Before starting your research, contact your local library or archive to see if they have digital archives you can look at. In many cases, historical newspapers are available solely on microfilm.
Where can I read old newspapers online for free?
Guides to Online Free Newspapers
- Chronicling America: Historic Newspapers.
- Elephind.com: Search the World’s Historical Newspaper Archive.
- Europeana: Newspapers.
- Google Newspaper Archive.
- ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers: International Collections.
- ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers: United States.
Where can I find digitized newspapers?
Additional Sources for Digitized Newspapers
- PastPages offers front pages from news sites.
- Newspaper Research Links offers state/province lists of digitized newspaper projects.
- The Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers (NewspaperCat) for newspapers published in the United States and the Caribbean.
How do you search Newspapers com?
You can browse the site by clicking the “Browse” link at the top of most pages and following a path through country, state, city, newspaper and then on to date. Or you can go to the “Papers” page and use the left column to browse newspaper titles by name, location, or time period.
How do I search chronicling America?
Searching in Chronicling America
- information on persons, places, or events;
- specific topics or news of the day;
- concepts or ideas;
- unique passages of text, such as the source of a frequently-quoted phrase.
How do I view my Google newspaper archives?
Begin with the newspaper list to browse directly to a specific newspaper title in the Google News Archive. Once you select a title of interest, you can easily navigate to a specific date using the arrows or, even faster, by entering the date in the date box (this can be a year, month and year, or a specific date).
How do I find an obituary on newspapers com?
6 Tips for Searching Obituaries on Newspapers.com
- Learn how to use Newspapers.com’s “search” feature.
- Add key terms to your search.
- Search using alternative names, nicknames, abbreviations, initials, and common misspellings.
- Know when to narrow your search and when to widen it.
- Save your search.
How do I find all news articles?
You can click News Archive Search on the Google News search page, or go to to search Google’s news archives.
Is chronicling America free?
Chronicling America continues to expand the number of newspapers available providing free access to millions of historic newspaper pages from 46 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, published between 1789 and 1963.
