Cycle history research online: Newspapers
Lists some of the best bets for researching cycle history in digital libraries, archives and more.
American newspapers freely available online
- Chronicling America
From the Library of Congress, this site provides free access to digitized newspapers back to 1777. It's recommended to use the "Advanced Search" tab and try the proximity search where you may search for newspaper pages that have particular words within 5, 10, 50 or 100 words of each other. You can add limits by time and place as well. - Some of our favorite free online newspaper databases:
- California Digital Newspaper Collection
- Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
- Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
- Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program
- Digital Michigan Newspapers
- Missouri Digital Newspaper Project
- New York State (NYS) Historic Newspapers
- Hudson River Valley Historical Newspapers
- Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
- Portal to Texas History - Keyword proximity search for newspapers
- Virginia Chronicle: free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 2.5 million newspaper pages
- Washington Digital Newspapers
- Find more free digital newspapers in this guide from Purdue University Library.
