Understanding the 18th-Century Press
The Public Prints: The Newspaper in Anglo-American Culture, 1665-1740 by Call Number: PN4855 .C53 1994 and E-BookISBN: 0195082338
American Colonies / United States
- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals, Series 1 This link opens in a new window
Date(s): 1684-1820
Early American newspapers and magazines, digitized at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester. - Chronicling America This link opens in a new window
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Date(s): 1756-1963
Historic newspapers from all different U.S. states, hosted by the Library of Congress.
- North Carolina Newspapers (1751-1898)Available through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center's DigitalNC Project
- New Jersey Digital Newspaper ProjectA compilation of "all known digitized newspapers published in New Jersey, whether currently available or in process, including links and other access information." Organized by county, includes both free and subscription resources.
- Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive"The Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive is the gateway to the Commonwealth's historical full-text searchable newspaper database.
Newspaper titles and holdings will continue to be added as they become available from all 67 counties stretching back to our colonial roots to the present."
- Virginia Chronicle"Virginia Chronicle is a historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over a million newspaper pages."
- Virginia Gazette (Williamsburg, VA) (1736-1780)Available through the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's research website.
UK
- British Library Newspapers [Boston Public Library subscription]Includes a wide variety of British papers ranging in date from the 1730s to 1950. To access, sign up for an e-card.
- London Times Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Date(s):1785-2019
Articles from the London Times, including all pictures and advertisements.
Europe
- Deutsches ZeitungsportalHistoric German newspapers 1671-1950. Many, but not all, papers are in German. Browse by title, location or year, or keyword search.
- Europeana Newspapers"Explore the headlines, articles, advertisements, and opinion pieces from European newspapers from 20 countries, dating from 1618 to the 1980s."
- Imperial Russian NewspapersThe Imperial Russian Newspapers collection comprises out-of-copyright newspapers spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, up to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.Core titles are from Moscow and St. Petersburg, complemented by regional newspapers across the vast Russian Empire.