Historical Newspapers

Follow the Revolutionary War through the Civil Rights Movement, all in one place.

Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material. With more than 60 premier stand-alone 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.

Seamless search experience

Titles are fully cross-searchable with each other and all other databases located on the ProQuest platform, improving breadth, depth and context. For many titles, stories that span multiple newspaper pages are threaded together, appearing as one continuous image and further improving readability.