Newspapers - History - United States - Guides at Middlebury College

Current Newspapers (many back to 1980's to present)

US Newsstream
Features full-text U.S. newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Includes the LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Wall Street Journal, and one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers. Coverage: 1980 - current.
Nexis Uni
Nexis Uni is the new platform for LexisNexis Academic. It offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases. Designed to meet student needs, it allows individual customization along with collaboration tools for creating shared work space for group projects.
Burlington Free Press (includes historic)
Includes: Daily Free Press (Burlington) (1848-1868); Burlington Daily Free Press and Times (1869-1885); Burlington Daily Free Press (1885-1923); Burlington Free Press (1923-2007); Burlington Free Press (2010-about a week ago)
Full text coverage from 1999 to today is available also at: https://www.proquest.com/publication/45753/citation/3C1A172CD8AC44CFPQ/5?accountid=12447

U.S. Historical Newspapers

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search the digitized full-text and images of the New York Times (1851-2018); Wall Street Journal (1889-2010); Los Angeles Times (1881-1997); Washington Post (1877-2006); Chicago Tribune (1849-1998); Boston Globe (1872-1990); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945). Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender(1910-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)

America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
America’s Historical Newspapers includes thousands of titles from all 50 states chronicling the evolution of American culture and society through eyewitness reporting, editorials, letters, advertisements, obituaries, and much more. The core of America’s Historical Newspapers is Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922

Chronicling America: Digitized Newspapers
Digital versions of over a thousand historic American newspapers, 1836-1922

Pennsylvania Gazette
The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States’ most prominent newspapers before, during and just after the American Revolution. It was published in Philadelphia from 1728 until 1815.
Black Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search the digital full-text editions of the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003).
Black Life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience. Sourced from nearly 20,000 American and global newspapers from 1704 to 1975, including over 400 African American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in African American History.
African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Full-text newspapers articles from: The Canadian Observer, The Christian Recorder, The Colored American, Douglass Monthly, Frederick Douglass' Paper, Freedom’s Journal, The Freedmen’s Record and Freedmen’s Journal, The National Era, The Negro Business League Herald, The North Star, Provincial Freeman, Weekly Advocate
Hispanic life in America
Comprehensive coverage of the Hispanic American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 17,500 American and global newspapers, including almost 450 Hispanic American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Hispanic American History. Updated daily.
Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980)
IN SPANISH. Features hundreds of Hispanic American newspapers, representing the single largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Woman's Tribune
Based in Beatrice, Nebraska, The Woman's Tribune was the second-longest running woman suffrage newspaper in the United States. Clara Bewick Colby served as its editor over the twenty-six year run (1883 – 1909). The paper provided a unique mid-Western perspective on the women’s rights movement in the 19th century,

Lily: A Temperance and Abolitionist Newspaper
The first newspaper for women, the Lily was published in Seneca Falls, New York from 1849 until 1853. The Lily originated as a temperance journal for the Seneca Falls Ladies Temperance Society and was edited by Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894).

Civil War Collection
Includes: A Newspaper perspective (Charleston Mercury, New York Herald, Richmond Enquirer); The Soldier's perspective; The Generals' perspective, and A Midwestern perspective
National Anti-Slavery Standard
Published 1840-1870 and using the motto "Without Concealment?Without Compromise", National Anti-Slavery Standard was the official weekly newspaper of the American Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan. The society sought to extend the rights of slaves across the country and implied not only suffrage rights for colored males, but also advocated suffrage for women. With perhaps the exception of William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, also published by the Society, the Standard was the most influential voice for abolition leading up to the Civil War.

Anti-Slavery Bugle
Full text available: 1845 - 1861. Available in Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Famous illustrated newspaper. Includes Civil War battle scenes. For full description, see description from American Antiquarian Society.
Print (in Special Collections), microfilm (1855-1922) , e-journal (varies).

Burlington Free Press (includes historic)
Includes: Daily Free Press (Burlington) (1848-1868); Burlington Daily Free Press and Times (1869-1885); Burlington Daily Free Press (1885-1923); Burlington Free Press (1923-2007); Burlington Free Press (2010-about a week ago)
Full text coverage from 1999 to today is available also at: https://www.proquest.com/publication/45753/citation/3C1A172CD8AC44CFPQ/5?accountid=12447

American prison newspapers, 1800-Present
On JSTOR: American Prison Newspapers will bring together hundreds of these periodicals from across the country into one collection that will represent penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions. Development of the collection began in July 2020 and will continue through 2021, with new content added regularly.

Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
This digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans.

The News Media and the Making of America, 1730-1865
Exhibition from American Antiquarian Society (AAS). Discusses news sources, with examples, during different periods of American history from 1730 to the Civil War.
U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present
Can help to identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.

Current + Additional Newspapers

Newspapers Research Guide
Browse for titles of local, national and international newspapers available in the Middlebury Library and beyond. Link to the publications online, or find their library locations.
CRL Newspapers Catalog
Search the Center for Research Libraries' catalog for newspapers. Browse by country and other options. Midd users can request issues on microfilm via our Interlibrary Loan service. Note the CRL number in your request.