Digital Newspaper Collections

Available at AAS

The following digital newspaper collections are searchable from the AAS reading room.

United States

• America's Historical Newspapers
  Newspapers from all fifty states. Much of the content comes from the AAS collection of newspapers. Some of the AAS library general catalog records for newspaper titles do not have links to the digitized content available. Be sure to check the publication list of the over 7,000 titles included. There are twenty-seven Readex databases, such as African American Newspapers, included under the umbrella of America's Historical Newspapers.
  Produced by Readex.
• Amateur Newspapers from AAS
  Amateur newspapers from every state except Alaska and Hawaii. Over 5,500 titles.
  Produced by Gale.
• Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers
  Newspapers from all fifty states. Over 1.8 million pages available. The AAS library general catalog records for newspaper titles do not have links to the digitized content available. Be sure to check the publication list of the over 400 titles included.
  Produced by Gale.

Worldwide, excluding the United States

• World Newspaper Archive
  Includes historical newspapers published in Africa, Latin America, South Asia and other regions.
  Produced by Readex.

Available Everywhere

The following digital newspaper collections are searchable from anywhere.

Worldwide

• Elephind
  Over 47,000,000 pages of newspapers from the United States and around the world. Check the list of over 4,000 newspaper titles in this resource.

Worldwide, excluding the United States

• Digital Library of the Caribbean

United States

• Chronicling America 
  Access to over 13,000,000 pages published between 1690 and 1963.
• Historic Children's Voices
  Access to over 100 newspapers issued by people under the age of 20 at AAS.

California

• California Digital Newspaper Program
  Access to over 1,525,000 issues, comprising 23,449,000 pages.

Colorado

• Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
  Access to over 1,000 titles, comprising over 8,100,000 pages.

Connecticut

• Yale Daily News Historical Archive
  Access to issues 1878 to the present.

Florida

• Florida Digital Newspaper Library
  Access to over 1,000 titles, comprising over 8,100,000 pages.

Georgia

• Georgia Historic Newspapers
  Access to over 1,150 titles, comprising over 506,603 issues.

Hawaii

• Hawaiian Newspaper Collection - Papakilo Database
  Access to over 12,700 issues, comprising over 72,000 pages.

Illinois

• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
  Access to over 480 titles, comprising over 363,000 issues and over 3,350,000 pages.

Indiana

• Hoosier State Chronicles
  Access to over 198,000 issues, comprising over 1,689,000 pages. 

Maine

• Maine Newspaper Project
  Links to digitized newspapers.

Massachusetts

• Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection
  Access to over 220,000 pages.
• Nantucket Historical Newspapers
  Access to over 11,000 issues, comprising over 107,000 pages.

Michigan

• Digital Michigan Newspapers
  Access to over 126,900 issues, comprising over 1,345,000 pages. For a listing of all digital newspapers available throughout the state of Michigan, visit the Clarke Historical Library’s Michigan Digital Newspaper Portal. 

Minnesota

• Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub
  Access to over 730 titles.
• Winona Newspapers
  Access to over 34,900 issues, comprising over 412,000 pages.

Missouri

• SHSMO Digital Newspaper Project (1808—2026)
  Access to over 12,900,000 pages. Includes issues from other states.

Montana

• Montana Historical Society Newspapers (1864-2018)
  Access to over 370 titles, comprising over 3,500,000 pages.

Nebraska

• Nebraska Newspapers
  Access to over 75 titles, comprising over 645,000 pages.

New Jersey

• New Jersey Digitized Historic Newspapers
  An index of all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey.
• Papers of Princeton
  Collection of serials from Princeton University and town of Princeton, New Jersey. Access to nine titles, comprising over 36,600 issues.

New York

• NYS Historic Newspapers
  Access to over 1,500,000 issues, comprising over 15,655,000 pages. Every county in New York State is represented.
• Friend of Man
  Access to this title published 1836-1842 in Utica, New York, is almost complete.
• HRVH Historical Newspapers
  Access to over 90,000 issues, comprising over 930,000 pages from the Hudson River Valley.
• Vassar Newspaper Archives
  Access from 1872 to the present.

North Carolina

• North Carolina Newspapers
  Access to over 1,600 titles, comprising over 620,000 issues. 

Ohio

• Ohio Memory: Newspapers
  Access to over 1,000,000 pages.

Oregon

• Oregon Historic Newspapers
  Access to over 400 titles, comprising over 3,000,000 pages. 

Pennsylvania

• Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
  Every county in Pennsylvania is represented.

Virginia

• Virginia Chronicle
  Access to over 695,600 issues, comprising over 6,906,000 pages.

Washington

• Washington Digital Newspapers Program 
  Access to over 6,500 titles, comprising over 600,000 pages. Additional newspaper resources are available on the Newspapers of Washington State website.

Wyoming 

• Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
  Access to over 386,000 issues, comprising over 5,691,000 pages.