Research & Subject Guides: Journalism: Historical Newspapers

Historical Newspaper Databases

African American Newspapers (1827-1998) 1827-1998. Full-text. Online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. Beginning with Freedom's Journal (NY)—the first African American newspaper published in the United States—the titles in this resource include The Colored Citizen (KS), Arkansas State Press, Rights of All (NY), Wisconsin Afro-American, New York Age, L'Union (LA), Northern Star and Freeman's Advocate (NY), Richmond Planet, Cleveland Gazette, The Appeal (MN) and hundreds of others from every region of the U.S.
America's Historical Newspapers 1755-1922. Fulltext. More than 135 historic newspapers from all 50 states. Titles include The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper; New Orleans Daily Creole, the first African-American newspaper in America; Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Star), the first newspaper printed wholly in a Native American language; and the Maryland Gazette, the oldest continuously published newspaper in America. Regional newspapers include The New York Herald, Irish World, and Jewish Daily News.
Indigenous Newspapers in North America From historic pressings to contemporary periodicals, explore nearly 200 years of Indigenous print journalism from the US and Canada. With newspapers representing a huge variety in publisher, audience and era, discover how events were reported by and for Indigenous communities.
Chicago Tribune (Historical) Coverage 1849-2011. This 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.
Gale Primary Sources: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection 1604–1800. Full-text. The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The Burney Collection provides rare and often unique content for scholarly research into a wide range of political, educational, economic or journalistic study. Digitized from important holdings in the British Library, the collection contains nearly 1 million pages, more than 700 bound volumes and over 1,200 titles, including pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers published in London, the English provinces, Ireland, Scotland, the American colonies, Europe and India.
Gale Primary Sources: The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2014 1785-1985. Full text. Digital edition of The Times (London) with searching capability and facsimile images of individual articles or the complete page. Includes parliamentary debates, editorials, birth and death notices, advertisements, illustrations/photos and classified ads. More than 7 million articles. Does not include the Sunday Times, the Times Educational Supplement, the Times Higher Education Supplement, or the Times Literary Supplement.
Los Angeles Times (Historical) Coverage 1881-2011. This 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.
Newsday Newsday articles extends back to 1985.
New York Times (Historical) Coverage: 1851-3 years ago. Online access to page images and fulltext articles from the New York Times as far back as the first issue.
Washington Post (Historical) 1877-1997. Fulltext. Digitized historical archive of The Washington Post. Complete issues, cover to cover, from its beginning in 1877 until 1997, including news articles, photos, advertisements, marriage announcements, obituaries, cartoons, and more. In searchable pdf format.

Historical Newspapers on the Web

There are many libraries, museums, and public institutions that have digitized old newspapers and made them freely available online.

New York State Newspapers

NYS Historic Newspapers free online access to a wide range of newspapers chosen to reflect New York's unique history
Brooklyn Daily Eagle a digitization project of the Brooklyn Public Library

Other States and Regions

Chronicling America (Library of Congress)
Garrison's The Liberator (selected articles)
Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project
Ohio Memory Newspapers

Newspapers in Microforms at Stony Brook

Major Historical Sets

Early American Newspapers – Microfilm A565
Early American Newspapers, 1704-1820 – Microprint 4
Underground Newspaper Collection* – Microfilm A178 [1963-1985]

Index to Underground Newspaper Collection: Microforms Library Z6944.U5 B4 [1963-1985]

Alternative Press Collection* – Microfilm A178 [1986 – present]

Alternative press. A guide to the microform collection Z6944.U5 B4 [1986-present]

Other Major Papers

New York Herald [1840-1919] – Microfilm A1
New York Tribune / Daily Tribune / Herald Tribune [1841-1966] Microfilm 123
Christian Science Monitor [1908-1925, 1960-present] Microfilm A26

Major Foreign Newspapers

The Times (London, England) [1788-present] – Microfilm A6
Le Monde (Paris, France) [1944-present] – Microfilm A4
Le Temps (Paris, France : 1861) [1861-1942] – Microfilm A3
Pravda (Moscow, Russia) [1917,1921-1975] – Microfilm A161

African-American Newspapers

New York Amsterdam News (1919-present) – Microfilm A128
Chicago Defender (1905-1966) – Microfilm A395
Pittsburgh Courier [weekly] (1923-1947) – Microfilm A238

Special Collections

Have historic newspapers for Long Island. Original newsprint copies and microfilm. Most but not all titles are in the catalog. Consult with Kristen Nyitray, Head, Special Collections and University Archives at (631) 632-7119.

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