Research Guides: HIST 175: Michigan History: Historical and Local Newspapers Online

Open Access Historical/Archives

Chronicling America
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1949 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Google Historic Newspapers by name
Google News Archive Search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. Users can search for events, people or ideas and see how they have been described over time.

Chicago Tribune (ProQuest) 1849-1999
Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides full-text newspaper articles from the Chicago Tribune from 1849-1998.
New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) [1851-2020]
Subject: History, Journalism
Content/Description: Contains full-text articles from the New York Times newspaper.

Anchor Online Archive (1887-2024)

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides articles from Hope's student newspaper, the Anchor.
Holland City News

Subject: Interdisciplinary
Content/Description: Provides newspaper articles published in Holland, Michigan for the English-speaking people in the area.

Digital Michigan Newspaper Portal
Access digitized versions of newspapers made available from a variety of sources. Among these links are papers held by the Clarke Historical Library and also Michigan newspapers found in Chronicling America, a database maintained by the Library of Congress.

The Library of Michigan also provides access for Library of Michigan cardholders to multiple pay sites. Library of Michigan library cards can be obtained via this link and are freely available to all Michigan residents.
African American Student Project from Bentley Library at the University of Michigan
There's a nice listing of project resources, bibliographies, the UM student newspaper and more.