This is a list of full-text English-language archives and databases. Fort the most part, they are fully searchable and provide PDF or JPG page images. For those archives that are marked as "browseable" below, often a rudimentary search may be performed by doing a Google site-specific search (in the Google search field, put the terms you are searching for, and also "site:www.unsearchablenewspaper.com/archives/pdf", or whatever the appropriate URL/directory for the archive in which a typical document is located).
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Newspapers
National
Library of Congress Chronicling America (1836 - 1922)
Stars and Stripes (1918 - 1919)
Regional/Local
Birmingham AL: Birmingham Iron Age (1874 - 1901)
Jacksonville AL: Jacksonville Republican (1837 - 1895; browse only)
Barrow AK: Tundra Times (1965 - 1997)
Arizona: Arizona Digital Newspaper Program
Casa Grande AZ: area newspapers (a free part of subscription Newspaperarchive.com)
California: California Digital Newspaper Collection (1846 - 1922; 2006 - 2011)
Manzanar CA: Manzanar Free Press (1942 -1945) browseable, newspaper of Japanese interment camp during WWII
Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Outlook (1875 - 1920)
Torrance CA: Torrance Herald, Press (1913 - 1969)
Whittier CA: Whitter News (1888 - 1942)
Colorado: Colorado Historic Newspapers Project (1859 - 1923)
Florida: Florida Digital Newspaper Library
Boca Raton FL: Newspapers Collection Tattler (1938); Boca Raton Pelican (1948 - 1953); Boca Raton News (1955 - 1970)
Palm Beach FL: Palm Beach Post (1897 - 1988) Part of Google News Archive
Georgia: Georgia Newspaper Project (1808 - 1922)
Hawaii: English Language newspapers (1862 - 1923)
Illinois: Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
Sycamore IL True Republican (1869 - 1872; 1877 - 1968)
Tallula IL Express 1895 - 1896 (scattered issues)
Urbana IL Daily Courier 1903-1935
Chicago IL Examiner (1908 - 1918)
Florala, IL: Florala Digital Newspapers
Hyde Park IL: Hyde Park Herald (1882 - 2008)
Quincy IL: Quincy Historic Newspaper Archive (1835 - 1919)
Muncie IN: Muncie Post Democrat (1921 - 1950)
Muncie IN: Muncie Times (1991 - 2010)
Iowa: Cedar Rapids Library Digital Newspapers (1853 - 2010) (a free part of subscription Newspaperarchive.com)
Adams County, IA: Adams County Newspapers (1876 - 2000) (a free part of subscription Newspaperarchive.com)
Charles City IA: Charles City Press (1930 - 2007)
Sioux County IA: Sioux County Newspapers (1872 - 2008) (a free part of subscription Newspaperarchive.com)
Kentucky: Historic Kentucky Newspapers (See also Chronicling America)
Louisiana: LA Newspaper Access Program
New Orleans LA: New Orleans Bee (1827 - 1923) (browseable only)
Maryland: Maryland Gazette (1728 - 1839) (browseable only)
Grosse Pointe MI: Newspapers (1923 - Present)
St. Paul MN: Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minneapolis Catholic Bulletin (and successive papers) (1991 - pres)
St. Paul MN: Minnesota Union Advocate (1907 - pres)
Winona MN: Winona Newspaper Project (1860 - 1976)
Missouri Newspapers
Nebraska Newspapers (1860 - 1922)
New Market NH: Newspapers
Atlantic County, NJ: Newspapers (1860 - 1923)
New York: Fulton County Postcards. Miscellaneous NY newspapers.
New York: Northern New York Historical Newspapers (1844 - 2010)
Brooklyn NY: Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1841 - 1902)
Hudson River Valley, NY: Historical Newspapers (1831 - 2001)
New York City, NY: Freedom's Journal (1827 - 1829) browseable; Abolitionist/African American newspaper
New York City, NY: New York Times (1851 - 1980; articles before 1922 are free)
Rochester, NY: Historical Newspapers (1803 - 1992)
Schenectady NY: The Daily Gazette (1920 - 1997) Part of Google News Archive -- click "Google News Archive" button for archives search.
Suffolk County NY: Historic Newspapers (1822 - 1974)
North Carolina: NC Newspaper Digitization Project (1751 - 1898)
North Carolina: North Carolina Newspapers (1824 - pres) (includes African-f American newspapers)
Oklahoma: Gateway to Oklahoma History (1840s to 1920s)
Oregon: Historic Oregon Newspapers (1846 - 1922)
Lancaster County PA: Digitization Project (1816 - 2005)
Pittsburg PA: Pittsburg Jewish Newspaper Project (1895 - pres)
Texas: Texas Digital Newspaper Program (1829 - 2011)
Utah: Utah Digital Newspapers (1850 - 2011)
Williamsburg, Virginia: Virginia Gazette (1736 - 1780) browseable; index
Washington: Washington Historic Newspapers (1852 - 1892) Note: The full text of these papers is not searchable. The papers have been indexed by personal names and other key words, and searching the index yields links to relevant articles.
Wisconsin: digitized clippings
Wyoming: Wyoming Newspaper Project (1867 - pres with scattered coverage prior)
Student
Arizona: Little Cowpuncher (AZ Elementary Schools 1932 - 1943)
Los Angeles CA: Cal State Northridge Univ Sundial
Los Angeles CA: East LA College Campus News (1945 - 1999)
Pasadena CA: California Institute of Technology California Tech (1946 - pres) Note: To limit results to just the Tech, type "tech" in the "Journal or Publication Title" field
San Diego CA: San Diego State University Student Newspapers (1913 - pres); Alternative Newspapers
San Francisco CA: Lowell High School Lowell (1898 - pres; scattered)
New Haven CT: Yale Daily News (1878 - 2001)
Washington DC: Gallaudet Univ Silent Worker (1888 - 1929) University for deaf students.
Lakeland FL: Florida Southern College Southern (1935 - 1950)
St. Leo FL: St. Leo Univ Lion's Pride (and predecessor titles) (1967 - pres)
Athens GA: Univ of Georgia Red and Black (1893 - 2006)
Bloomington IL: Illinois Wesleyan Univ Argus and predecessor publications (1870 - 2011)
Chicago, IL: Illinois Institute of Technology IIT Technology News (1928 - 2012)
Naperville IL: North Central Chronicle (1873 - pres)
Rock Island IL: Augustana College Mirror (1900 - pres)
Muncie IN: Ball State Univ Easterner and News (1922 - 1939)
Decorah IA: Luther College Chips (1884 - pres)
Des Moines IA: Drake Univ Delphic (1930 - 1978, 1983, 1987)
Boston MA: Univ of MA at Boston Mass Media (1966 - 2007) (a free part of subscription Newspaperarchive.com)
Cambridge MA: Harvard Univ Crimson (1873 - pres) HTML instead of PDF
Duluth MN: College of St. Scholastica Cable (includes other college publications) (1932 - pres)
Minneapolis/St. Paul MN: Univ of MN Minnesota Daily (1900 - pres)
Morehead MN: Concordia College Concordian (1920 - pres)
Northfield MN: Carleton College Carletonian (1877 - pres)
St. Joseph MN: College of St. Benedict and Collegeville MN: Saint John's Univ Student Newspapers (1888 - pres)
St. Paul MN: College of St. Catherine Wheel (1935 - pres)
St. Paul MN: Macalester College Weekly Mac (1914 - pres)
St. Paul MN: Univ of St. Thomas Aquin (includes other univ publications) (1912 - pres)
St. Peter MN: Gustavus Adolphus College Gustavian Weekly (1920 - 2005)
Winona MN: Winona State Univ Winonan (1911 - 2011)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Daily Princetonian (1876 - 2002)
Upper Montclair NJ: Montclair State Univ Montclarion (1962 - 2001)
Buffalo NY: Canisius College Griffin (1933 - 1976)
Hamilton NY: Colgate Univ Student Newspapers (1846 - pres)
Ithaca NY: Cornell Univ Daily Sun (1880 - 1981 sporadic)
Poughkeepsie NY: Vassar College Miscellany News (1914 - 2001)
Columbus OH: Ohio State Univ Lantern (1881 - 1997)
Oklahoma City, OK: Univ of Central Oklahoma Vista (1979 - pres)
State College PA: Penn State Univ Collegian (1887 - 1987)
Williamsport PA: Lycoming College Student Newspapers (1856 - pres)
Providence RI: Brown Univ Daily Herald (1891 - pres with gaps)
Sioux Falls SD: Augustana College Mirror (1908 - pres)
Memphis TN: Rhodes College Sou'wester (1919 - pres)
Sewanee TN: University of the South Various Newspapers (1872 - 1950) Sewanee Purple (1950-51; 51-52; 52-53; 73-74; 74-75)
Waxahachie TX: Trinity Univ Trinitonian (1919 - pres)
Salt Lake City UT: Salt Lake City Community College Globe (and predecessors) (1959 - 2011) (part of Utah Digital Newspapers)
Richmond VA: Univ of Richmond Collegian (1914 - 2011)
WA: Univ of Washington, various campuses Student Newspapers Archive assorted issues. Includes:
Bothell campus Commons (1995 - 1997)
Seattle campus Daily (1967 - 1968)
Tacoma campus Independent (1993 - 1996)
Tacoma campus Ledger (1996 - 2005)
Washington DC: American University Eagle (1925 - 1996)
Washington DC: Georgetown Univ Hoya (1959 - 1980)
Urbana - Champaign IL: Univ of Illinois Daily Illini (1916 - 1945; 1962 - 1975)
Ithaca NY: Ithaca College Ithacan (1926 - 2002) (also HERE)
Gettysburg PA: Gettysburg College Gettysburgian (1897 - 2004)
Lancaster PA: Franklin and Marshall College College Reporter (1964 - 1987)
Lincoln University PA: Lincoln Univ Lincolnian and Lincoln News (1925 - 2003)
Lethbridge, AB, Canada: Lethbridge Community College Endeavour (1965 - 2008)
Lethbridge, AB, Canada: Univ of Lethbridge Student Newspapers (1967 - 1996, 2001 - pres)
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Memorial Univ of Newfoundland Gazette (1968 - 2006)
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Memorial Univ of Newfoundland Gazette (1994 - pres)
Military
All Hands Navy magazine (1922 - pres) browseable
Digital Military Newspaper Library
Naval Aviation News (1943 - pres) browseable
Wartime Press (JPEGs of many WWII era publications; browseable only)
Fairfield CA: Travis AFB Tailwind (2008 - pres)
Miramar CA: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Flight Jacket (2005 - pres; browseable)
Colorado Springs CO: Fort Carson Mountaineer (2004 - pres; browseable)
El Paso TX: Fort Bliss Monitor (2004 - pres; browseable)
Australia: Australian Army Newspaper (2001 - pres)
Canada: Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian Forces Base Halifax Trident (2004 - pres)
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center (Huntsville, AL) Star (1997 - 2011 browseable)
Ames Research Center (Mountain View, CA) Astrogram
Kennedy Space Center (Merritt Island, FL) Countdown (2002 - 2009 browseable) and Spaceport News (1996 - 2010 browseable)
Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD) News (2004 - 2005 browseable) and View (2005 - 2011 browseable)
Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX) Roundup (1961 - 2001 browseable) and Roundup (2002 - pres browseable)
Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) Researcher News (2002 - 2006 browseable)
links to all nasa http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/snews/spnews_toc.html
Foreign
Australia: Trove (assorted newspapers; 1803 - 1954)
Australia: Nambour Chronicle (1903 - 1955)
Cambodia: Phnom Penh Post (1992 - 2011; see bottom of page; browseable; formatted stories)
Canada: Canada Gazette (1841 - 1998)
Canada (mostly Alberta): Peel's Prairie Provinces (1871 - 2007)
Canada: Alberta Newspapers Collection (1885 - 2001) (browseable only)
Canada: Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection (1897 - 1991)
Canada: Wainwright AB Star-Chronicle (1908 - pres)
Canada: British Columbia Historical Newspapers (1865 - 1930)
Canada: British Columbia Newspapers
Canada: Prince George BC Newspapers
Canada: Quesnel BC Cariboo Observer (1908 - 2010)
Canada: Victoria BC British Colonist (1858 - 1910)
Canada: Manitoba (1859- pres) (browseable only)
Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers. Includes:
St Johns, Newfoundland Daily News (1955 - 1963)
St Johns, Newfoundland Daily Star (1915 - 1918)
St Johns, Newfoundland Evening Telegram (1914 - 1918)
Twillingate, Newfoundland Sun (1880 - 1953) Due to bad OCR, many volumes are not text-searchable
Canada: Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers Online
Canada: Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers (selected years between 1769 and 1977) (browseable only)
Canada: Nova Scotia Historical Newspaper Project (selected years between 1850 and 1992)
Canada: Ontario Community Newspapers (1810 - 1857; 1860 - 1863; 1867 - 2007)
Canada: Ontario Our Ontario (1810 - pres)
Canada: Halton ONT newspapers (1864 - pres with sporadic coverage before)
Caribbean Region: Caribbean Newspaper Digital Library
England: International Times (1966 - 1980, 1892, 1986, 1984; Underground Newspaper)
Israel: Historical Jewish Press Contains some English language content (for example, The Palestine Post from 1932 - 1950)
Japan: Newspaper Clippings Contains some English language content.
New Zealand: Paperspast (1839 - 1945)
Singapore: Singapore Newspaper Archive (1863 - 2009)
United Kingdom: London/Ediburgh/Belfast Gazette
Journals
Cambridge MA: Radcliffe College Radcliffe Magazine (1899 - 1920)
Kentucky: Kentuckiana Digital Library: Journals
Minneapolis MN: Labor Review (1907 - pres)
Missouri: Missouri Conservationist (1970 - 1997)
Oklahoma: Oklahoma Today (quarterly magazine) (1956 - pres)
Australia: Australian Periodical Publications (1840 - 1845)
Australia: Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982)
Canada: Newfoundland Quarterly (1901 - 1954)
Canada: Nova Scotia Cape Breton's Magazine (1972 - 1979)
England: Internet Library of Early Journals
Geneva, Switzerland: Journal de Genève (1826 - 1898; French language)
Air Force Magazine (1955 - 1961, 1969, 1986 - pres)
Air and Space Power Journal (previously titled Air University Review) (U.S. Air Force academic journal; 1966 - pres)
All Hands (U.S. Navy; 1922 - pres; browseable)
American Journal of Science (1818 - 1895)
Canadian Military Journal (2000 - pres)
Flight Magazine (1909 - 2005)
JSTOR public domain
Massachusetts Inst of Tech Technology Review (1899 - 2009) browseable only
Military Review (U.S. Army academic journal; 1922 - pres)
Naval Aviation News (U.S. Navy; 1943 - pres; browseable only)
Popular Science (1872 - pres) (subset of Google Books)
Preservation News (1961 - 1995)
Royal Society Journals (many titles older than 70 years are free) link
Sports Illustrated SI Vault (1954 - pres; html format)
Synapse Magazine Electronic Music journal (1976 - 1979; browseable only)
Books
Kentucky: Kentuckiana Digital Library: Books
Pittsburgh PA: Darlington Digital Library
College Yearbooks
Des Moines IA: Drake Univ Quax (1916 - 1994, missing 1978, 1977, 1989)
St. Paul MN: Hamline Univ Liner (1893 - pres)
Topical Databases
Agricultural: Midwest Weeklies Farm Field and Fireside (assorted titles 1841 - 1939)
Athletics: LA84 Foundation Digital Archive
Caribbean: Digital Library of the Caribbean
Distillation of Spirits The Alcohol Library
Horse Racing: Daily Racing Form (1896 -1999)
Jewish News: Jewish News Archive (1923 - 2008)
Machinists Union Journals (1889 - 1994)
NASA Historical Documents
NASA Technical Reports
Portuguese language Newspapers
Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals
Vaudeville: American Popular Entertainment Collection (NY Clipper 1853 - 1924, The Player 1911 - 1913, Vaudeville News 1920 -1929)
Genealogy
Family History Archives at Brigham Young Univ
Family Search (Mormon Database Aggregation)
Canada: Genealogy Archives
Miscellaneous
Gallica (French; similar to Hathi Trust)
Hathi Trust (University subset of Google Books. Somtimes answers are better than GB search.)
Internet Library of Early Journals
Making of America Cornell
Making of America Univ of Michigan
Minnesota State Fair Archives
St. Joseph MN: College of St. Benedict and Collegeville MN: Vivarium Digital Collections
Kansas City MO: Missouri Valley Special Collections
Ithaca NY: Cornell Univ Digital Collections
Pennsylvania Digital Repository
Lincoln PA: Lincoln Univ History Resources Online
Canada: Multicultural Canada
Canada: British Columbia Simon Fraser University Digital Images
St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Memorial Univ of Newfoundland Digital Archives Initiative (portions of this archive are broken out individually above)
England: miscellaneous 19th Century Serials
Charles Darwin Complete Works
misc collection of periodicals
SUBSCRIPTION
Limited to services which can be accessed by individuals. I haven't included databases which are primarily marketed to institutions.
Newspapers
National
Christian Science Monitor (1908 - 1980)
USA Today (1987 - pres)
Regional/Local
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Phoenix AZ: Arizona Republic (1890 - 1922)
Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Times (1881 - 1988)
Hartford CT: Hartford Courant (1764 - 1984 page images; 1992 - pres text)
Washington DC: Washington Post (1877 - 1986 page images; 1987 - pres text)
Indianapolis IN: Indianapolis Star (1902 - 1922 page images; 1991 - pres text)
Baltimore MD: Baltimore Sun (1837 - 1985 page images; 1990 - pres text)
Boston MA: Boston Globe (1872 - 1979 page images; 1980 - pres text)
Boston MA: The Jewish Advocate (1905 - 1990 page images; 1991 - pres text)
Detroit MI: Detroit Free Press (1831 - 1922 page images; 1999 - pres text)
New York City, NY: Wall Street Journal (1889 - 1999 page images)
Cincinnati OH: Cincinnati Enquirer (1841 - 1922 page images)
Pittsburgh PA: Pittsburgh Courier (1911 - 2002 page images)
Proquest also archives:
American Jewish Newspapers
Atlanta Constitution (1868 - 1945)
Atlanta Daily World
Chicago Defender
Chicago Tribune
Cincinnati Enquirer (1841 - 1922)
Cleveland Call & Post
Irish Times
Los Angeles Sentinel
New York Amsterdam News
New York Tribune
Newsday (1940 - 1984)
Norfolk Journal & Guide
Philadelphia Tribune
San Francisco Chronicle
The Times of India
As far as I know, the above papers are not available to individuals, but are accessible only through institutional accounts (such as public libraries, research libraries, archives,
and University/College libraries.)
The Jewish Chronicle (1841 - pres)
Oklahoma City OK: Oklahoma City Oklahoman (1901 - pres) Note: Generally, free access if you hold a library card from an Oklahoma institution. Out of state residents
can get a Tulsa library card for $50 per year.
Foreign
Sydney, Australia: Morning Herald
Canada: Winnipeg MT Free Press (1874 - pres)
Canada: Toronto ONT Star (1894 - pres)
England: British Newspaper Archive (1700 - pres)
England: ukpressonline (mostly 20th cent)
England: British Library British Newspapers (19th cent)
London England: Guardian and Observer (1791 - pres)
Ireland: Irish Newspaper Archives (1763 - pres)
Edinburgh Scotland: The Scotsman (1817 - 1950)
Journals
The Atlantic (1857 - 1964; 1992 - pres)
The Economist (1853 - 2007)
Harper's Magazine (1850 - pres) (available to subscribers)
Leatherneck (1916 - pres) Journal of the U.S. Marine Corps Association
The Nation (1865 - pres)
The Rolling Stone (available to subscribers)
The Stage (1880 - 2007) (London theatrical paper)
Time (1923 - pres) (available to subscribers)
Variety (1906 - pres) (available to subscribers)
Vogue (1892 - pres)
Books
Topical Databases
Conjuring / Magic: AskAlexander (subsciptions available through membership in the Conjuring Arts Research Center)
Genealogy Ancestry.com
Genealogy Fold3 (formerly Footnote) (misc military, geneaology, newspapers, etc)
Genealogy World Vital Records
Rock Music Magazines Rock's Back Pages
Miscellaneous
Accesible Archives (misc 18th, 19th century Americana)