A selection of American newspapers, most from the late-eighteenth through late-nineteenth centuries, are housed in the department. These include approximately forty titles with multi-year runs and more than two-hundred titles with scattered issues. Most are from Maine and Massachusetts. Of particular note, the collection includes a full run of Advocate of Freedom, and several Louisiana newspapers of the Confederate era sent to the Hubbard family of Hallowell, Maine, by John Barrett Hubbard, Captain and Assistant Adjutant in General Weitzel's brigade, then in New Orleans. They include La Sentinelle de Thibodaux (Louisiana), October 25, 1862, printed on wallpaper and Natchitoches Union (Louisiana), April 2 and 4, 1864, printed on ledger sheets. There is also a Mississippi issue from July 2, 1863.
