America's Historical NewspapersThis link opens in a new windowChronicles the evolution of American history, culture and daily life through thousands of historical newspapers from all 50 states.
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Directories & listings
U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present"This directory of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them. Use the options below to select a particular place and time, using keywords to locate specific titles. Titles currently listed: 154,205."
Rowell's & Ayer's American Newspaper DirectoryProvides basic information (editor name, subscription cost) as well as advertising and circulation statistics about publications from 1869 to 1920.
California Newspaper Project"The CNP catalog is the most comprehensive source of information about California newspapers. It details newspaper titles and holdings from more than 1,400 libraries, museums, historical societies and publishers' offices throughout the state. The catalog contains records for over 14,400 U.S. newspaper titles held in California repositories; close to 9,000 of these newspapers were or are published in California."
NewspaperCat: Catalog of Historical Newspapers"[C]urrently links to over 1,500 full-text newspaper titles with a goal to include links to as many US and Caribbean newspapers with archival digital content as possible. Plans are to expand the Catalog as newly digitized newspaper titles are located."
Digital collections
California Digital Newspaper Collection"[C]ontains over 1,500,000 pages of significant historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. It also contains issues of several current California newspapers that are part of a project to preserve and provide access to contemporary papers."
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers"[P]roviding access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."
SDSU print & microfilm collections
19th Century Newspaper Collection, 1803-1898The 19th Century Newspaper Collection consists of miscellaneous issues of various American newspapers published during the nineteenth century. Part of the collection was used as a teaching tool at San Diego State University by two professors of communications in their respective classes: Barbara Hartung, Ph.D., now professor emerita, and Diane L. Borden, Ph.D. Other miscellaneous issues have been added to this core collection.
American Council of Learned Societies project to microfilm African American newspapers. The project was coordinated by Armistead Scott Pride, who produced the guide listed below. The papers were originally published from 1865-1923.
