Primary Sources - Historical Newspapers and Periodicals

Online Historical Newspapers & Periodicals - UK & Beyond

British Library Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)

Delivers a wide range of irreplaceable local and regional voices to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Includes complete collection covering England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
British Periodicals, I-IV
British Periodicals Collections I-IV (from ProQuest) provides facsimile page images and searchable full text for nearly 500 British periodicals published from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. The equivalent of more than 6 million pages from nearly 500 popular periodicals. Subject areas emphasized include archaeology, architecture, art, drama, fine arts, history, literature, music, philosophy, science and social sciences.
Economist Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
A searchable collection of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to present (with the exception of the last five years). Each weekly issue contains news reporting and analysis, commentary, editorials, statistics, demographics, letters to the editor, obituaries, and historical photographs.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Includes every significant English and foreign-language title printed in the UK, along with important works from the Americas between 1701 and 1800, comprising over 32 million pages of text across 180,000 titles and 205,000 volumes.
Eighteenth Century Journals

Features unique and rare eighteenth-century periodicals from archives in the UK and the US, showcasing the diversity and evolution of publishing between 1685 and 1835. While primarily UK-based, it also includes publications from other English-speaking regions like India.
The Moscow News Digital Archive
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
The Moscow News Digital Archive offers scholars the most comprehensive collection available for this title. Moscow News (pub. 1930-2014) was the oldest English-language newspaper in Russia. The pages of Moscow News reflect the shifting ideological, political, social and economic currents that have swept through the Soviet Union and Russia in the last century. The Moscow News Digital Archive contains most published issues (1930-2014, approx. 60,000 pages), including issues of the newspaper’s short-lived sister publication Moscow Daily News (1932-1938).
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer

Full-text access to two major British newspapers covering politics, international affairs, business, culture, and social issues from 1791 to 2003.
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection (Gale Primary Sources)

A digitized and searchable version of Reverend Charles Burney's collection of 17th and 18th-century newspapers, pamphlets, proclamations, and books, including titles from England, Scotland, Ireland, and several British colonies.
Sunday Times Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Provides access to the full run of a British weekly newspaper noted for its analysis and commentary on the week's news and society at large.
Times Digital Archive (Gale Primary Sources)

A full-text facsimile of The Times, detailing every page of every issue from 1785, making it an essential resource for the study of 19th and 20th-century history and literature.
World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers

Collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century newspapers from across sub-Saharan Africa offering firsthand accounts of political, cultural and social developments.
World Newspaper Archive: Latin America

Digitized historical newspapers from across Latin America and the Caribbean, offering firsthand perspectives on politics, society and culture from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Includes Latin American Newspapers Series 1 (1805–1922), featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, and Series 2 (1822–1922), with coverage from Bolivia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Belize.

Online Historical Newspapers & Periodicals - North America

African American Newspapers

Full-text access to 19th-century African American newspapers, offering firsthand accounts of cultural life, historical events, and major issues in African American communities, making it an essential resource for studying this period.

Coverage: Varies 1827- 1902
Publications included: The Canadian Observer, The Christian Recorder; The Colored American; Frederick Douglass’ Paper; The Freedmen’s Record; Frederick Douglass Monthly; Freedom’s Journal; The National Era; The Negro Business League Herald; The North Star; Provincial Freeman; Weekly Advocate.
African History and Culture, 1540-1921

Discover Africa's history through rare books, pamphlets, and ephemera from the 16th to the early 20th century, covering all regions of the continent and nearby areas.
America's Historical Imprints

Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents, and rare printed materials provide insights into American history, literature, culture, and daily life from colonial times to the 19th century.

Includes: African History and Culture, 1540-1921: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia; The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922: From the American Antiquarian Society; Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819.
Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876
Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876: From the American Antiquarian Society Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876—the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region—will provide a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands. This unique resource will prove essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century.

Chroniclling America: Historic American Newspapers
earch America's historic newspapers pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. States included in this essential and invaluable digital repository are: Alabama; Arizona; California; Colorado; District of Columbia; Florida; Hawaii; Illinois; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Minnesota; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; New Mexico; New York; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virginia; Washington(state). For Further information concerning the history of American Newspapers, use the Library of Congress' US Newspaper Directory, 1690 - Present

Civil War Collection

Search primary sources from 1855-1869, featuring articles on international trade, foreign perspectives on the U.S. during the Civil War, diverse views on industries, slavery, and pre- and post-war attitudes, along with detailed reports on troop movements.
Collection includes:
- Part I: A Newspaper Perspective: Contains the full text of major articles from issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865.
- Part II: The Soldiers’ Perspective: Provides an in-depth look at the day-to-day actions of the troops themselves primarily in the form of regimental histories.
- Part III: The Generals’ Perspective: These volumes allow a look into the way the battles within the war were fought. Here the emphasis is on strategies and tactics as planned and executed by the commanding officers, with a longer-term view as opposed to daily concerns.
- Part IV: A Midwestern Perspective: This collection consists of seven newspapers published in Indiana between 1855 and 1869. Thus, it provides pre-and post-Civil War information in addition to coverage of the war itself.
Early American Newspapers, Series I
Coverage: 1690-1876
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American newspapers. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and provides unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods. Additionally, EAN, Series I is cross-searchable with other Archive of Americana® collections held by ASU Library.

Alternate titles: America’s Historical Newspapers-Early American Newspapers Series I
Hispanic American Newspapers
Coverage: 1808-1980
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Hispanic American Newspapers provides access to a wealth of historical primary source materials. It's the largest online collection of Spanish-English newspapers printed in the United States.

Historical African American Newspapers
This LibGuide produced by Elizabeth Clarke of Marist College provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.
Historic Mexican & Mexican American Press
The Historic Mexican and Mexican American Press collection documents and showcases historic Mexican and Mexican American publications published in Tucson, El Paso, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sonora, Mexico from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.

The Lily, 1849-1856

The first newspaper for women in the United States, was issued from 1849 until 1853 under the editorship of Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894). Its local and national focus was both temperance and women’s rights.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers (Gale Primary Sources)
Searchable database containing digital facsimile images of newspapers; presented as full page layout as well as single articles; advertisements and illustrations included. This collection includes numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S.; and it encompasses the entire 19th century.
Pennsylvania Gazette: 1728-1800

Full-text collection covers significant events from early colonial expansion (1728) through the American Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and Washington’s presidency, providing vital insights into U.S. history up to 1800.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers

Cross-search historically significant African American newspapers offering primary sources crucial for studying American history, culture, politics, and the arts.

Includes: Atlanta Daily World, The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier
ProQuest News & Newspapers

Cross-searchable full-text access to current and historical newspapers, including major dailies, alternative press, and historical Black newspapers.
- Cross searches the Alt-PressWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch indexes
- Current editions: Arizona Republic, Barron's, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Tribune
- Historical editions: Atlanta Constitution, Guardian, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Guardian and The Observer, Washington Post, Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Cleveland Call and Post, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier

Wikipedia list of newspaper archives
This is a list of free and pay wall blocked digital online newspaper archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases.

20th & 21st Century US Newspapers

Access World News

Full-text content from thousands of U.S. and international newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, and business magazines, providing diverse viewpoints on local and global issues.
Arizona Republic (ProQuest)

Find articles, editorials, notices, and obituaries from the Arizona Republic since 1999, excluding images and ads.
Ethnic NewsWatch

Ethnic NewsWatch offers articles from minority presses, including African American, Caribbean, Arab, Asian, European, Hispanic, Jewish, and Native American sources, with coverage starting from 1990.
Los Angeles Times (ProQuest)

Find articles and editorials from the Los Angeles Times since Dec 1996, excluding images and ads.
NewsBank NewsFile CDROM : Historical Files 1980 - 1998

Due to software requirements, the CDROMs for the Arizona Republic and Arizona Business Gazette are temporarily unavailable.
Coverage: 1980 - 1998
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Provides full text access to selected articles from over 500 U. S. and Canadian newspapers, wire services, and broadcast news transcripts. Includes: NewsBank Reference Services Plus, (CD-ROM) (1980-1996) which provides citations to the microfiche collection of the full text articles; Comprehensive CD NewsBank (1993-1996) which includes full text on the CD; NewsBank Newsfile (1996-1998) which includes full text on the CD.
Nexis Uni

Find full text of various newspapers, trade publications, legal periodicals, and journals. Includes company directories, financial reports, biographies, federal/state laws, regulations, court opinions, and news transcripts.
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)

A major financial newspaper from 1984 to present, with detailed indexing for news, companies, people, and products. Full coverage is available on wsj.com with your free ASU Wall Street Journal subscription. Click Additional Info to activate.
- ASU provides free access to the Wall Street Journal.
- Visit the WSJ registration page and select your role (Student, Faculty, or Staff).
- Complete the registration using your ASURITE email (asurite@asu.edu).
- After registration, access the Wall Street Journal directly at wsj.com.