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.
A selection of databases focused on news, primarily historical, from the United States is below. Many more databases including 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.
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.
More than 350 newspapers from more than 35 states published by or for African Americans.
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).
The largest compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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.
The Campus Underground series includes over 75 publications that originated from college and university campuses and their surrounding communities.
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.