Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

Search and view a large selection of digitized American historical newspaper titles from 1860-1922, or locate microfilmed copies of newspapers using the comprehensive "U.S. Newspapers Directory, 1690-the present."

Access Locations:

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building;

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center;

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture;

Thomas Yoseloff Business Center at SNFL;

All Branch Libraries;

Outside the Library

Subjects:

Genealogy;

New York City History;

United States History;

Reference;

Historical Newspapers;

U.S. Newspapers;

Area and Cultural Studies;

American Studies

Notes:

Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to select digitized newspaper pages and information about historic newspapers, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to digitize historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. Include 3 New York City newspapers, The Sun and The Evening World and The New York Tribune digitized by the New York Public Library.

Dates of Coverage:

1836-1922

Provider:

National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)

Format:

Web

Language:

English