News Sources: U.S. Newspapers
Print Newspapers
The vast majority of current Columbia Libraries newspaper subscriptions are digital. To find physical copies, including older print or microfilm issues of newspapers, see the Finding News Sources section of the guide.
Find a selection of database news collections and direct links to many popular U.S. newspapers in this section.
U.S. News Collections
A selection of databases focused on news, primarily historical, from the United States is below. Many more databases that include U.S. news are listed in the News Collections section of this guide. For even more U.S. newspapers, see the American History and American Studies: Articles research guide.
- America's historical newspapers This link opens in a new windowA large collection of U.S. newspapers from the 17th through 20th centuries, with the majority of titles from 1690-1922.
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
A searchable and freely accessible digital collection of historic newspaper pages from nearly every state and territory in the United States, from 1756 through 1963. Chronicling America is produced through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
- Ethnic newsWatch This link opens in a new windowA collection of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press—African, Arab, American Indian, Asian, Black, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, Jewish, Middle Eastern, and Pacific Islander—in the U.S. Coverage is from the 1960s to the present.
- State CollectionsMost U.S. states have free, or partially free, digitized newspaper collections. Try an online search for [state name] historic newspapers (e.g., new york historic newspapers) to locate these collections, such as New York State Historic Newspapers, California Digital Newspaper Collection, or Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections.
- African-American newspapers, 1827-1998 This link opens in a new window
More than 350 newspapers from more than 35 states published by or for African Americans.
- African American periodicals, 1825-1995 This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than 170 periodicals from 26 states, based on James P. Danky’s African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: A National Bibliography (Harvard, 1998).
- Hispanic American newspapers, 1808-1980 This link opens in a new window
The largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Historical black newspapers This link opens in a new window
A collection of about a dozen prominent Black newspapers primarily from the 20th century, including the Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, and Pittsburgh Courier.
- Indigenous newspapers in North America This link opens in a new windowA collection of more than 40 Indigenous newspaper titles from the U.S. and Canada, covering 1828-2016.
- American prison newspapers, 1800-2020 : voices from the inside. This link opens in a new windowAmerican Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of periodicals created in prisons from across the U.S.— which incarcerates more individuals than any other nation—with special attention paid to women-only institutions.
- Campus Underground
The Campus Underground series includes over 75 publications that originated from college and university campuses and their surrounding communities.
- Japanese-American relocation camp newspapers : perspectives on day-to-day life. This link opens in a new windowA collection of 25 newspapers, in English and Japanese, documenting the incarceration of people of Japanese descent in U.S. concentration camps during World War II.
U.S. Newspapers
Digital access to current and historical issues of many major U.S. newspapers is listed below. Online-only articles are not always part of the library’s databases; when available, Print and Online access is listed separately. To find other titles and for more information on searching for news, including finding physical formats, see the Finding New Sources section.