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The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 are presented in digitized format here.

Searchable African American Newspapers from Coherent Digital. Includes: Freedom's Journal, New York, 1827-Mar. 1829; Colored American, New York, 1837-Mar. 1840; The North Star, Rochester, NY, 1847-July 1849; National Era, Washington, DC, 1847-Dec. 1848.

African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, from Readex/Newsbank. Provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles.

Coverage: 1690-1991
Searchable full text collection of US newspapers. For additional titles see 19th Century U.S. Newspapers.

American Indian Newspapers aims to present a diverse and robust collection of print journalism from Indigenous peoples of the US and Canada over more than 9,000 individual editions from 1828-2016.

Includes parts I-VI. Sourced from the extensive holdings of the British Library, British Library Newspapers 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.

1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The largest collection of fully searchable 18th- and 19th-century Caribbean newspapers. The evolution of the region across two centuries chronicled within more than 140 titles from 22 islands. Essential for research on colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and related topics.

Chronicling America allows you to search and view millions of American historic newspapers, published 1836-1922 as well as discover more about newspapers published in the U.S.,1690-present. API available, more information here: APIs for Scholarly Research

The Charlottesville, VA area newspaper, published daily from 1892 to the present. Issues from 1892 through 1964 have been digitized from the Library's set of microfilm and are available for viewing online.

Now part of Gale Primary Sources. Search together 5 historical collections of British and American newspapers: Burney Collection (17th and 18th C.), 19th century British and US newspapers, British Library Newspapers: Parts I-IV, the Times (London), and the Economist.

HarpWeek provides full-text and images of Harper's Weekly, America's leading 19th century illustrated newspaper. Includes years 1857-1912.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles published in the 19th century. It is based on the “Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project,” a national research effort directed by Nicolás Kanellos, Brown Foundation Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston.

Atlanta World Daily, The American Israelite, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian & The Observer, The Jewish Advocate, The Jewish Exponent, Le Monde, Los Angeles Times, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, Pittsburgh Courier, The Times of India, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

A subset of the larger ProQuest Historical Newspapers, this is a collection of several prominent black newspapers including the Atlanta Daily World, Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Michigan Chronicle, New York Amsterdam News, Norfolk Journal and Guide, Philadelphia Tribune, and Pittsburgh Courier.

Boasting some 3.5 million articles and more than 800,000 digitized pages, The Sunday Times Historical Archive is a gateway to the greatest crimes, careers, and culture of the last two centuries. This archive is an important resource for the humanities and social sciences, especially in history, media studies, journalism, literature, cultural studies, politics, and theater.

Gain fundamental insight into domestic and international affairs with access to both the daily and Sunday editions of The Telegraph.

Coverage: 1785 - 2019
The full text of the Times of London from 1785-2019.

Virginia Chronicle is the Library of Virginia's online newspaper database and repository, and contains over 46,000 individual issues totaling nearly 300,000 pages.

Coverage: 1805-1922
This collection provides access to nearly 300 newspapers from across Latin America from the 19th and early 20th centuries.