Online Historical Newspapers : Northeast States

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Run does not include 1863, 1874, and 1885.

Includes a dozen newspapers from cities like Hartford, Stafford, and New London. Most of the newspapers included are from the Civil War and the decades immediately preceding and following it.

Not yet comprehensive.

Cape Gazette Lewes, Delaware (1993-2012)

Handwritten community newspaper from Freeport. Transcription available (but not searchable) for each issue.

• The Original Irregular, Kingfield (2009-2012)
• The Quoddy Tides, Eastport (1968-1970, 1975, 2012)

African-American newspaper published in Baltimore.

3,330 issues

11,347 issues

373 issues

22 issues spread out over one year.

Choose the title of the newspaper as the source to limit your search to this paper.

Scanned microfilm images that are unsearchable but can be browsed by date. Mostly scattered runs. Includes the Cambridge Chronicle, Maryland Gazette, Baltimore Clipper, Whig newspapers, and more.

Scanned microfilm that is unsearchable but can be browsed by date.

The Hancock News Hancock, Maryland (2004-2006, 2009-2012)

Features the Barnstable Patriot, covering Cape Cod and the Islands, and the Hyannis Patriot.

Includes Chatham Monitor: (1871-1899, 1918-1939, 1941-1943), the Lower Cape Cod Chronicle (1969-1974), the Cape Cod Chronicle (1974-2001), the Chatham Shopper News (1965-1968), and the Chatham News (1968-1969). A service of Chatham’s Eldredge Public Library.

26 issues of the French language newspapers published in Boston.

Called Alvorada Diario for its first seven years, this important Portuguese language newspaper covered Portuguese-American communities in New England and the Mid-Atlantic states. Click on "Search the Portuguese-American Digital Newspaper Collections," then select "Diario de Noticias" from the "Select Publication" pull-down menu.

The nation's oldest continuously published daily college newspaper.

Student newspaper of Brandeis University.

Abolitionist newspaper published in Boston, edited by William Lloyd Garrison. Selected articles, searchable.

Student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

(May 4, 1844-April 19, 1845) "A semi-monthly paper, devoted exclusively to the cause of seamen—to virture—to temperance—to humanity—to intelligence."

• The Ashfield News, Ashfield (2000-05, 2010-12)
• The Brookfield Citizen, Brookfield (2010-12)
• Post-Gazette, Boston (2009-12)
• Vineyard Gazette, Edgartown (1846-50, 1865-66, 1874-77, 2009-12)

Student newspaper of MIT. According to the website, it is "MIT's oldest and largest newspaper & the first newspaper published on the web."

Wellesley is located just west of Boston.

• Bedford Journal, Milford (available soon)
• Merrimack Journal, Milford (2001-02)
• Peterborough Transcript, Peterborough (1980, 1983)

Newspapers from Atlantic City and the surrounding area. Includes: Atlantic Journal (1860); Hammonton Farmer (1863; 1866); South Jersey Republican (1863-1923); Atlantic Democrat and Cape May County Register (1864-1865); Atlantic Democrat and Cumberland County Patriot (1866); Atlantic Democrat (1866; 1867-1868); Hammonton Item (1872-1877); Mays Landing Record (1877-1906); Atlantic County Record (1908-1917); and South Jersey Star (1917-1923).

Dover, Morris County, NJ.

Montclair State University student newspaper. Incomplete run.

Includes both the New Brunswick Daily Times and the New Brunswick Home News.

Burlington, NJ newspaper.

Newspapers from Paterson, in Passaic County. Includes Chronicle, the Sunday Chronicle, Il Messaggero (in Italian,) and The Messenger. Date ranges vary.

Known as the Daily Register from 1964-1991. Red Bank is a town on the Navesink River in Monmouth County.

Includes The Iron Era (1872-1905) and The Rockaway Record (1890-1936). Rockaway is a city in north central New Jersey.

Scotch Plains is located south of Newark.

The Silent Worker was a popular national newspaper among the Deaf community in the United States during the end of the 1890's through the end of the first quarter of the 20th century. Originally known as the Deaf Mute Times, it was first published in February 1888 and renamed The Silent Worker on September 27 of the same year. The New Jersey School for the Deaf continued its publication monthly, except for July, August, and periodically September until it ceased in June 1929. Deaf American authors wrote almost all articles, although occasional contributions by deaf individuals from other countries were also printed.

A weekly paper from South Amboy, a town in central coastal New Jersey. Some issues are missing.

Several newspapers from Westfield in Union County.

Includes the Carteret Press (1925-1965), Fords Beacon (1936-1961), Independent Leader (1940-1965), Leader Press (1967-1970), The Independent Hour (1876-1877), The Weekly Register (1898-1902), Woodbridge Leader (1927-1928), Woodbridge News (1899-1902), Woodbridge Independent (1919-1938), and the Woodbridge Leader (1926-1939).

Albany Student Press and its predecessors

German-Jewish emigre journal.

Bethpage is located on Long Island. Select a year to search content within that year.

Extensive national and international coverage. At one point the country's most widely read afternoon daily.

Includes: The Sun (1859-1916), the Evening World (1887-1922) and the New-York Tribune (1841-1922).

Cornell University undergraduate newspaper.

The Empty Closet is one of the oldest continuously published LGBT papers in the United States. It was begun at the University of Rochester by Bob Osborn and Larry Fine, the founders of the UR student group, Rochester Gay Liberation Front, and later transferred to the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley (GAGV).

Includes The Observer, Farmingdale Observer, The Farmingdale Post. Missing some years. Select the paper and the year to search within that content.

Abolitionist paper published in Rochester, earlier called The North Star. This is a page of links to transcribed articles. Not searchable. The entire March 18, 1853 issue is available here: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/interpret/fdpaper/fdpagesf.html

All 103 issues available as full-text PDFs. The first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States, Freedom's Journal was published weekly in New York City.

Includes The Leader, Freeport News, Nassau Post, and others. Select the paper from the homepage to search within that paper. Freeport is located on Long Island. Date ranges vary by paper.

This online archive contains 281 issues, which is close to the complete run. The Friend of Man was "one of the most significant and little studied newspapers documenting early anti-slavery and other reform movements," and was published in central New York.

The first official student newspaper of Canisius College, and ran from 1929 - 1933.

Newburgh Telegraph (1831-1835), Rockland County Journal (1850-1879), Rockland County Messenger (1848, 1851-1855, 1857-1860), Rockland County Times (1902-1904), The Kingston Daily Freeman (1895, 1903-1912), and three publications from Vassar College: The Vassar Miscellany Weekly (1872-1915), Vassar Chronicle (1944-1978), and Vassar Spectator (1983-1993).

Student newspaper of Ithaca College.

Kingston is New York's Hudson River Valley, between Poughkeepsie and Albany.

New York City newspaper, the content of which "reflected [William Lyon] Mackenzie's views entirely and was extremely reform minded to the point that it advocated revolution against the ruling system of government."

Influential African-American newspaper which ran from 1887- 1953. Staff writers included Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B. DuBois.

Influential African-American newspaper which ran from 1887- 1953). Staff writers included Ida B. Wells-Barnett and W.E.B DuBois. Issues available as non-searchable PDFs.

The New York Daily Tribune was renamed the New York Tribune in 1866.

Famously sensational newspaper published by Joseph Pulitzer and perhaps best know for its 'yellow journalism.'

The search interface supports complex searching. To search a specific newspaper start your search with the title in quotes "Syracuse NY Post Standard." Use this format to limit by date: 1904~~1920. Connect information with 'and.' For example: "Syracuse NY Post Standard" and 1904~~1920 and canal. A listing of all newspapers that provides date browsing is available here Includes New York city papers: Tribune (1841-1922), Sun (1843-1945), Spectator (1797-1845), Evening Telegram (1868-1924), Evening Post (1810-1920), New York Age (1906-1953), Spirit of the Times (1838-1890), World (1862-1901) more.

The nation's first successful penny daily, and the New York City circulation leader for several decades in the 19th century. By 1900 it was less important than several other city papers but still influential. Continued in next link.

Includes vol. 83, no. 335 (July 31, 1916) through vol. 87, no. 153 (Jan. 31, 1920).

The archive is divided into two search sets: 1851–1980 and 1981–present.
Some materiial is free but there are conditions.

Continuation of the New York Daily Tribune.

Includes over 50 papers from Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties in the Adirondack region of northern New York State.

Newspaper published in Mahopac, which is located near Danbury, Connecticut.

This collection of newspapers from Rochester and surrounding Monroe County includes the Liberal Advocate, The Rights of Man, The Monroe Democrat, Soldiers Aid and 20 other antebellum and Civil War era newspapers.

• The Lake & Valley Clarion Geneseo, New York (2003-2006)

The student newspaper of SUNY-Buffalo.

Stony Brook University student newspapers and other campus publications.

Historic newspapers from the eastern three-quarters of Long Island, New York. Includes the Babylon Beacon (1967-1972), The Corrector (Sag Harbor, 1822-1911), The Long Islander (Huntington, 1839-1974), The Patchogue Advance (1926-1961), and eight others.

The Vassar College Digital Newspaper Archives provides access to a wide range of newspapers published by Vassar College students from 1872-present.
• Left of Center (April 1988 - 16 April 1992)
• Miscellany News (6 February 1914 - 28 April 2011)
• The Vassar Miscellany (literary publication) (1 April 1872 - 1 October 1915)
• The Vassar Spectator (1 March 1983 - 1 March 1993)
• Unscrewed (1 October 1976 - 1 April 1989)
• Vassar Chronicle (1 March 1944 - 28 April 1978)
• Womanspeak (1 March 1979 - 1 October 1992)

One of the original "alternative newsweeklies," the Voice featured local news and coverage of art, culture, and entertainment in lower Manhattan and throughout New York.

The State Library of Pennsylvania’s digitized copies of historical Pennsylvania newspapers.

Adams County, of which Gettysburg is the seat, is located in south-central Pennsylvania along the border with Maryland.

732 issues

Student newspaper of the University of Scranton.

Beaver County is northwest of Pittsburgh.

Includes The Scranton Tribune (1897-1902), the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger (1914-1922), and many more.

Primarily consists of Chester newspapers.

Republican Newspaper. Excerpts.

Student newspaper of Gettysburg University.

Collection contains a number of newspapers covering Tioga, Bradford and Wellsboro.

Newspapers of Greenville and the surrounding area in Mercer county.

16 newspapers of Smethport and the surrounding area in McKean County.

A "weekly newspaper dedicated to Irish nationalism and to topics of interest to Irish-Americans. It was founded by Joseph McGarrity and published in Philadelphia from March 23, 1918 to May 6, 1922."

Student newspaper of Lafayette College.

• Columbia Spy (1830-1889)
• Franklin and Marshall College Reporter (1873-2011)
• Lancaster Daily Intelligencer (1880-1890)
• Lancaster Examiner and Herald (1834-1872)
• The Lancaster Farmer (1869-1884)
• Lancaster Intelligencer (1847-1871)
• Lancaster Journal (1816-1836)
• New Holland Criterion (1873- 1950).
• Lancaster City and County Directories (1843-1914)
• Lititz Newspaper Collection
• Millersville University Snapper (1925-2005)
• New Holland Clarion (1873-1950)

An important agricultural publication.

Student newspaper of Lincoln University

Student newspapers of of Lycoming College.

http://www.accesspadr.org/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/naz_item

The leading Jewish publication in the United States during this period.

The Daily Collegian (and predecessors), as well as the Behrend Beacon and Hazleton Highacres.

Includes three Philadelphia papers (Press, 1857-64; American Presbyterian, 1860-1869; Daily Evening Bulletin 1864-1870) and the newspapers of Bellefonte, Chambersburg, Columbia, Erie, Gettysburg, Huntingdon, Reading, Waynesboro and Wellsboro.

Choose “Pittsburgh Post-Gazette” as the source to limit your search to this paper.

Includes The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present).

Gettyburg newspaper.

• Mifflinburg Telegraph, Mifflinburg (1945-1946, 2003-2004, 2009-2012)

Scattered runs of multiple newspapers. Collection of mainly small town newspapers in Pennsylvania.

Franklin County Democratic newspaper. Excerpts.

Scattered run in later years.

142 issues

Student newspaper of Brown University in Providence. Several gaps in run.

Includes long runs of Burlington and Rutland newspapers.

• Journal Opinion Bradford, Vermont (2009-2012)

One of the five DC-area hospital newspapers published during the Civil War.

Includes: The Colored American (African American Newspaper), The Evening Times, The Hatchet, The National Forum, The Suburban Citizen, The Sunday Globe, Sunday Morning Globe, Sunday Washington Globe, The Washington Bee, The Washington Herald, Washington Sentinel, Washington Times, Washington Weekly Post, The Weekly News (Anacostia), and the Alexandria Gazette.

Student newspaper of Georgetown University

African American newspaper.

Founded as a newspaper for Civil War veterans and their families.

African American newspaper. Incomplete run.