Historical Newspapers

The UW Libraries has an extensive collection of historic newspapers on microfilm housed in the Microform and Newspaper Collections. The best way to identify available newspapers is to use the card catalog in the Microform and Newspaper Collections. You can also search the UW Libraries Catalog for the newspaper.

This page includes links to UW restricted digitized historic newspapers and selected freely available digitized newspapers. To find additional freely available digitized historic newspapers see ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers.

For contemporary newspaper coverage (roughly since 1990) see Finding News Articles.

  More Info UW Restricted African American Newspapers: The 19th Century - Transcriptions of 7 antebellum papers
  More Info Broolyn Daily Eagle - New York paper from 1841-1902
  More Info UW Restricted Chicago Defender - Digitized version of major African American newspaper from 1905 to 1975
  More Info Chronicling America - Currently limited to selected papers from 1900-1910, eventually will cover 1836-1922
  More Info Colorado's Historic Newspapers - late 19th and early 20th century newspapers
  More Info UW Restricted Early American Newspapers, Series II - collection of more than 50 19th century newspapers
  More Info UW Restricted Ethnic Newswatch - selected coverage of ethnic newspapers from 1960 on
  More Info Florida Newspapers Collection - selected 19th and 20th century issues
  More Info Georgia Historic Newspapers - 19th century newspapers including the Cherokee Phoenix
  More Info Hawaiian Newspapers Project - Hawaiian language newspapers
  More Info Historical Newspapers in Washington - Washington territorial papers
  More Info Historicsche Kranten in Beeld - Dutch language newspapers for the first half of the 20th century
  More Info UW Restricted Los Angeles Times - digitized version from 1881-1985
  More Info UW Restricted New York Times - digitized version from 1851-2003
  More Info Pacific Northwest Regional Newspaper & Periodical Index - index to local papers, no fulltext
  More Info Papers Past - New Zealand newspapers
  More Info UW Restricted Pennsylvania Gazette - transcriptions of a major colonial newspaper, 1728-1800
  More Info Penny Illustrated Paper - British paper from 1861-1913
  More Info Stars and Stripes - military newspaper for 1918-1919
  More Info UW Restricted Times Digital Archive - digitized version of London paper from 1785-1985
  More Info Utah Digital Newspapers - late 19th and early 20th century newspapers
  More Info UW Restricted The Wall Street Journal - digitized version of paper from 1889 to 1989

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Last modified: Thursday March 06 2008 (mudrock)