Searchable scans of local and regional newspapers from the United States.
Fondren has access to the following collections:
- Early American Newspapers Series 1-8, 1690-1922
- Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980
- African American Newspapers, 1827-1998
- Caribbean Newspapers, Series 1, 1718-1876
Digitized images of the pages of over 1,100 American magazines and journals from 1740 and 1940. Titles range from America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to Vanity Fair and Ladies' Home Journal.
Periodicals published in the United States between 1684 and 1912, digitized by the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), a national research library and archive.
Scans of African-American newspapers from the 19th century, including statistics, biographies, essays, poetry, advertisements, and other cultural artifacts.
This database will ultimately contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century. Coverage includes: The Colored American (Weekly Advocate), The North Star, The National Era, Provincial Freeman, Frederick Douglass Paper, and The Christian Recorder.
List of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies, as well as digitization projects done by Google.
Text and images of newspapers published in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean.
Created in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society—one of the world's largest and most important newspaper repositories—this collection provides students and scholars with easy access to more than 150 years of Caribbean and Atlantic history, culture and daily life.
Featuring publications from 22 islands, Caribbean Newspapers provides complete facsimiles of every available issue, including eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other news items. Most of these newspapers were published in the English language, but a number of Spanish-, French-, and Danish-language titles are also provided.
Countries represented include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Bartholomew, St. Christopher, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Trinidad, and the Virgin Islands. Also found within this resource are newspapers from Bermuda, an island not technically part of the Caribbean, but situated on shipping routes between Europe and this region and integrally related to its history.
Searchable newspaper pages and photos from 1795-2007, collected by the State of New York Newspaper Project, libraries, historical societies, and private individuals, and digitized from microfilm.