Primary Sources in American History: Newspapers

• Consult our list of historical newspapers and newspaper databases.
• Search under Journals & Newspapers to determine whether we have hold a particular newspaper.
• Search WorldCat (a national database of library catalog records) for the title of the newspaper of interest. Request it through Interlibrary Loan.
• Keyword search Compass or WorldCat (a national database of library catalog records) for the name of the place that the newspaper was published and the word "newspapers", e.g.

  brunswick AND newspapers

• U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, Library of Congress' Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present."
• American Newspapers Online, from the University of Pennsylvania

Other newspapers

See also Historical newspaper holdings at Bowdoin College Library's Special Collections.