History - United States

Part of Archive of Americana.  Includes Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3, 1690-1922.

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.

Search the digital full-text editions of the Chicago Defender (1910-1975), the Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), and the Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003).

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.

Full-text newspapers articles from: Canadian observer, Christian recorder, Colored American, Douglass monthly, Frederick Douglass paper, Freedom’s journal, Freedmen’s record and Freedmen’s journal, National era, Negro Business League Herald, North Star, Provincial Freeman, Weekly advocate

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.

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.

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,

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.

Includes: A Newspaper perspective (Charleston Mercury, New York Herald, Richmond Enquirer); The Soldier's perspective; The Generals' perspective, and A Midwestern perspective

Vermont's largest newspaper. 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 to approx a week ago). Full text coverage without images is also available from 1999 to present from ProQuest. And microfilm and print in the library. BFP is also available on Newspapers.com for Vermonters on the VT State Newspapers of Record website (myvermont.gov login needed).

This digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans.