History Research: Historical Newspaper Databases

A free website that provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized American newspaper pages.

A service of the Colorado State Library, the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes 335+ newspapers published in Colorado primarily from 1859 up to 1924.

An important primary source, this full-text weekly newspaper includes editorials, news stories, illustrations, cartoons, and even advertisements that shaped and reflected public opinion during the civil war years.

LexisNexis Academic has been rebranded as NexisUni

Provides access to a broad range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

Contains full-text of the articles, advertisements, announcements, and more published in the New York Times from 1851-2017. The additional Historical New York Times with Index provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the newspaper.

Searches hundreds of newspapers published across the United States during the 19th century. This database searches through articles, advertisements, and illustrations included in this collection.

Pikes Peak NewsFinder contains citations and some full-text to local news articles and obituaries from the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper. Wire stories (e.g. AP or Reuters), syndicated columns, editorials, letters to the editor, reviews, births, weddings and anniversaries are not indexed. This project is sponsored by the Pikes Peak Library District.

First published in 1785, The Times of London has over 200 years of historical news content that can be easily searched.