Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material. With more than 60 premier historical titles, ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ is the definitive newspaper digital archive empowering researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history.
From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ reveals the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.
Every issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format. Researchers can study the progression of issues over time through these historical newspaper pages, including articles, photos, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, editorial cartoons, and so much more. The ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ archive contains more than 52 million digitized pages.
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With more than 2,000 news titles and coverage from the 1700s to today, ProQuest has the most comprehensive and important set of historical and recent sources available
ProQuest Historical Newspapers is the definitive newspaper digital archive offering full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century.
U.S. Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Arizona Republic—1890-2007
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Journal Constitution—1868-1987
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Austin American Statesman—1871-1989
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Sun—1837-1996*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Boston Globe—1872-1990*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Chicago Tribune—1849-2012*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor—1908-2008*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Cincinnati Enquirer—1841-2009
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Courier-Journal (Louisville)—1830-2000
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Detroit Free Press—1831-1999
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hartford Courant—1764-1996*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Indianapolis Star—1903-2004
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Times—1881-2013*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Minneapolis Star Tribune—1867-2001
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Nashville Tennessean—1812-2002
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Newsday (Nassau)—1940-1993*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Newsday (Suffolk)—1954-2000
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2018*) with Index —(1851-1993)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Tribune / Herald Tribune—1841-1962
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Philadelphia Inquirer—1860-2001
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—1786-2003
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: San Francisco Chronicle—1865-1922
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: St. Louis Post-Dispatch—1874-2003
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: St. Petersburg Times / Tampa Bay Times—1901-2009
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal—1889-2010*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post—1877-2005*
Canadian Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Calgary Herald—1883-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Edmonton Journal—1903-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Province (Vancouver)—1894-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times-Colonist (Victoria)—1884-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Vancouver Sun—1912-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Globe and Mail—1844-2018*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Ottawa Citizen—1845-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Toronto Star—1894-2019*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Windsor Star—1893-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Montreal Gazette—1785-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leader-Post (Regina)—1883-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Saskatoon Star Phoenix—1902-2009
International Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Australian Newspapers Collection—1831-2000 (Sydney Morning Herald), 1854-2000 (The Age)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection—1832-1953
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) & The Observer—(1791-2003)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Hindustan Times (1924-2010)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Irish Times (1859-2020*) & Weekly Irish Times—(1876-1958)
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Jerusalem Post—1932-2008
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Korea Times—1950-2016
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Le Monde—1944-2000
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: London Evening Standard—1827-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Scotsman—1817-1950
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post—1903-2001*
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India—1838-2010
Black Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World—1931-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American—1893-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender—1910-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Cleveland Call & Post—1934-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Kansas City Call—1919-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel—1934-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Louisville Defender—1951-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Michigan Chronicle—1939-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News—1922-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Norfolk Journal & Guide—1916-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Philadelphia Tribune—1912-2010
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier—1911-2010
Jewish-American Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger—1857-1922
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The American Israelite—1854-2000
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Jewish Advocate—1905-1990
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Jewish Exponent—1887-1990
Specialty Historical Newspapers
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Communist Historical Newspaper Collection—1919-2013
- ProQuest Civil War Era—1840-1865
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Leftist Papers—1900- 2015
* Additional year of content added annually
U.S. Historical State Collections
Now includes thirty-one new State Collections, each featuring some of the most important titles covering a specific state in the United States. Access these State Collections, many with titles going back over a hundred years, and give your users insight into everything from local government decisions to historic moments that may not have been reported anywhere else.
Note: ProQuest will continue to load titles into the State Collections over the course of 2023
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