1775 Colonial Newspaper Article
Smithsonian Barbara Clark Smith looks at what a colonial newspaper article says—and doesn’t say—about a Patriot protest.
Joe Jelen: Old Newspapers Find a Home in New Technology
Newspapers are alive and well in the U.S. history classroom.
Old Political Cartoons
Poking fun and puncturing pomposity—how can you interpret political cartoons?
Digitized Newspaper Archives
How do you go back and find “the first draft of history”?
Wisconsin Historical Society: Freedom's Journal
All 102 issues of the first African American newspaper conveniently presented in PDF format.
Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album
How did newspaper illustration shape stereotypes (and our understanding) of the “Wild West”?
Little Cowpuncher: Rural School Newspaper of Southern Arizona
If you were a pioneer, what would you have to say about your schooling? Students take up their pens and invoke their democratic freedom of the press.
Utah Digital Newspapers
Browse Utah newspapers from 1879 through modern day.
Breaking the News in 1900
Headlines and deadlines. Where was the line between muckraking and professional ethics?
Readex Digital Collections
This site offers a cornucopia of documents spanning four centuries of American history.
ProQuest Information and Learning
From newspapers to scholarly journals, ProQuest has whatever you need!
Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
Searchable facsimiles of 1,850 monographs and 288 journal volumes related to agriculture in the U.S. between 1806 and 1989.
Women in Journalism
Archives 44 “full-life” interviews with American women journalists.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
Presents more than 55,000 Chicago Daily News photographs taken in the early 20th century.
Digital Library of Georgia
Examines the history and culture of the state of Georgia, presenting an extensive range of primary sources.
The Stars and Stripes, 1918-1919
Peruse every edition of the “official newspaper” of the U.S. Army fighting forces during World War I.
Geography of Slavery in America
Provides transcriptions and images of more than 4,000 newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants between 1736 and 1803.
Accessible Archives
Presents articles from 18th- and 19th-century newspapers, magazines, and books, with a focus on the Mid-Atlantic region.