Morse Institute Library Resource
Access World Newsis a resource you can search for free using your Natick Minuteman Library card. Itfeatures digital coverage from US and some World newspapers and other news services. Dates can go back to 1860, but in most cases coverage for publications is late 20th century to present. Search filters can be used to identifypublications within a state, country, time period the digital coverage is provided, specific date of event, and more. Once you are in the database, located the top blue menu, choose "Change Databases" and choose "All Databases." On the next page, choose "USA" or "World."
Using Free Resources - Need to Know
This guide provides information and links to resources that offer free access to historic online newspapers in the United States. In addition, you will findhistorical US newspapers for special groups,different nationalities. But while these collections are digital, some may not be remotely available to search from home. You may need to call the owning institution to see if and how you can access their digital collection from home.
U.S. Historical Newspaper Collections
Library of Congress: Chronicling America
Search and view newspaper pages from 2860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. All articles are full-text
Free Historic U.S. Newspapers by State
This guide provides access to digitized free historic newspaper resources by U.S. state and are arranged alphabetically by state. Holdings vary by date and location. Some are provided by the Library of Congress' Chronicling America website and others may be provided by state historical societies, public or university libraries, and state libraries and archives
Historical African American Newspapers Available Online
This guide 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. The content is available for free, though it is at the discretion of the institution providing the content. The newspapers contained within guide are those that have ceased to operate or are currently running papers with archives available. It does not include papers that are currently running and only offer access to the most recent articles.
Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
The State Historical Society of Missouri is pleased to present a growing collection of digitized historic newspapers. These images are freely available to the public and are keyword-searchable. Many of Missouri’s digital newspapers are also available through the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America site, which ultimately aims to include newspaper pages from all states and U.S. territories in its collection.
Google News Archive is an extension of Google News. It provides free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid. Some of the news archives date back to the 18th century. There is a timeline view available to help you select news from a specific period.
Advantage Archives - via AncesterHunt.com
Advantage Archives is one of the largest companies for digitizing newspapers. This list is by state, then by town. Some links will actively open the digital archive from the owning institute. Other links may not open as they are for local viewing from the owning institution.
Wikipedia:List of online newspaper archives
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives.
See AlsoCBS Broadcast Archives WikiHistorical Newspapers and Indexes On The Internet - USA
A genealogy research guide providing access to historical newspapers on the internet.
Historical U.S. Newspapers Online
A guide to historical U.S. newspapers that are freely available on the Internet. If dates of coverage are included in an entry for a newspaper, the source may or may not include all issues within the listed time period. Also, the dates of coverage were correct when they were added to the entry, but may have changed since they were recorded.
Open Access Digitized Newspaper Collections
This list includes many resources that are NOT available for free. BUT - scroll through the list and look for "Open Access Digitized Newspaper Collections." You will find historical collections of newspapers organized by United States regions. There are also other resources in the whole list that may be of interest. Look for the lock icon, in the unlocked version.
Library of Congress: Newspaper Archives, Indexes & Morgues
Offering a different way to search for US historical newspapers. You will find links to full text websites, and also websites that offer indexes to stories in these newspapers. Last but not least, you can also find links to newspaper photograph morgues.
Illinois: Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois Newspapers
Newspapers for the Camp Point, Adams County, Illinois
Michigan: Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan Area
This is digital archive of the Commercial Record of Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan. You can search it's digital contents from 1868-1977.
Wyoming Historical Newspaper Guide
Get in touch with Wyoming’s past through historical and archived Wyoming Newspapers. Historians, genealogists, students, and scholars will find a wealth of reliable information here, all first-hand accounts of local news from days gone by. Our earliest archive dates back to 1849 but many of these papers survived for only a brief time and disappeared like the boom-and-bust ghost towns of Wyoming and the west. This collection contains 268,408 issues comprising 3,903,862 pages.
How to Search
How to Search the Google News Archive
Google News Archive offers a wealth of digitized historic newspapers online — many of them for free. The project was discontinued by Google, but the historical newspapers that were previously digitized remain. While still a wealth of content, due to poor digital scanning and OCR (optical character recognition), a simple search of the Google newspaper archive rarely pulls up anything but major headlines. This article will help you find what you are looking for.
How to Search Chronicling America
Digitized newspapers in Chronicling America provide online access to a wide range of historical content. Not only will you find marriage announcements and death notices, but you can also read contemporary articles that were published as events happened, and learn what was important in the area and time where your ancestors lived through advertisem*nts, editorial and social columns, etc.
5 Tips for Genealogy Research in Chronicling America
This article features tips that can help you do genealogical research in Chronicling America. In addition, you will find links to other newspaper tools available at the Library of Congress that will help you.
Historical Newspaper Photos: How to Use Chronicling America's Newspaper Navigator Tool
The Newspaper Navigator tool works with the content available from the Library of Congress Chronicling America Collection of Newspapers. Using the application, visitors can search over the million images using a keyword, browse the thousands of images returned, and select relevant photos to train the algorithm to identify similar images based on their content, refine, and search again.
