Research Guides: Finding Primary Sources for History Research: Primary Newspaper Sources

Finding Primary Newspaper Sources

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1876 This offers fully searchable, facsimile reproductions of 650 historical American newspapers. Northern & “Old Northwest” newspapers are covered up until 1876. Southern newspaper coverage stops by the 1820s.
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Black Life in America Contains African American history, culture, and daily life. Explores how the dominant culture has portrayed and perceived people of African descent. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. 1976-present available
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California Digital Newspaper Collection 1846-1922
A collection of free full text searchable historic newspapers. About 130 Southern California newspapers included since 1850-

California Newspaper Archive Full text facsimile content of California newspapers from 1846 to date. Includes Long Beach newspapers, 1938-1977, Orange County Register 1913-2016 and many other regional California newspapers.
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California Newspaper Project
An inventory of California newspaper titles held in the state with physical holdings in print or microfilm. No direct online content.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1789 - 1963 Free full text database of historically significant U.S. newspapers published form 1789 to 1963.

Freedom (1951-55)
NYU Libraries digital collection of Freedom. Freedom was a newspaper founded in Harlem, New York by activists Paul Robeson and Louis Burnham during the Cold War and McCarthy eras. It openly challenged racism, imperialism, colonialism, and political repression and advocated for civil rights, labor rights and world peace. Its writers and contributors included W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry.

Global Newsstream U.S. and international news sources. More than 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Updated daily.
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Google News Archive
Google has scanned hundreds of thousands of original newspapers from the 1800s to the present.

Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 Hundreds of Spanish-language newspaper articles from 1808 to 1980, with some articles also appearing in English.
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Historical Chicago Defender, 1905-1975 A full text African American newspaper available from 1905-1975. Historical research on civil rights, segregation, African American migration to the industrial states, anti-lynching legislation, and the modern civil rights movement. Also published the works of Black authors, such as Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes.
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Historical Chinese Newspapers Full text historical content of 12 English language Chinese newspapers published 1831-1952 in China.
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Historical Hartford Courant, 1764 - 1992 America's longest continuously published newspaper, the Hartford Courant is literally older than the nation. It provides researchers a front-row seat from which to view the birth of an independent nation. Firsthand accounts of colonist reactions to the Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party and a copy of the Declaration of Independence. Coverage of 1764-1990, including news articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, and more.
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Historical Los Angeles Times Full text, facsimile content of the Los Angeles Times for 1881-1996. Includes complete articles, photographs, advertisements, classified ads, legal notices, comics, editorials, commentary, letters to the editor, sports, radio and television schedules. For more current content, see: Los Angeles Times (1985-current)
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Historical New York Times Full text facsimile content of the New York Times from 1851 up until the previous three years. Includes all articles, reviews, commentary, literary criticism, comics, obituaries, classifieds, and display ads. More photographs may be viewable using the “full page PDF” viewing option.
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Independent Voices: Open Access Alternative Press 1950 to Date: An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of libraries. Covers topics related to feminism, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press. Includes LA Free Press and Berkeley Barb
News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek)‎ Collection of leading magazines of the 20th century relating to political history, current events of the day, history, international relations, and more. Covers 1930 to date where the majority of articles are from Newsweek magazine.
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19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive Features publications of all kinds, from political party newspapers to major dailies papers published by African Americans, Native Americans, women's rights groups, labor groups, and the Confederacy.
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Newspapers Collection represents the largest single collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period.
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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Nichols Newspaper Collection The Seventeenth and Eighteenth 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, covering the period 1672-1737.
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Times (of London) Digital Archive
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Full text online coverage of the Times (of London, England) from 1785 up until five years ago ( a moving wall). Includes news articles, reviews, commentary, literary criticism, editorials, obituaries, ads. Many images, maps, graphics and photographs are viewable starting by the 1880s. No coverage of the Sunday Times (of London) is included.

Wikipedia Link of Online Newspaper Archives
Extensive list of sites that have historical newpapers online. Indicates whether the paper is full text access or index only and whether content is free. Good place to find local history.
See More CSULB Print and Microfilm Historical Newspapers Here