50,000 Free Online U.S. Historical Newspapers Now Available

The Ancestor Hunt regularly adds and updates new collection links, as well as searches for and fixes broken links.
(This page's most recent update is October 2024)
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On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014, with about 10,000 titles. There have been at least two updates published each year since then. 

This second update for 2024 adds another 2,060 titles.

The total is 49,800 links to Historical American Newspapers that can be searched for Free Online.

More and more newspapers are being digitized and are being made available for all of us to research. Some are full-text searchable and others are browsable.

I will continue to follow the digitization activities across the country and hope to publish the next update in the late Spring of 2025. 

To search the new (and old)  and updated links, choose your state link below and see all the newspapers that are available for you to research. 

(Please note – there may be more that I have not yet discovered, and if you are aware of some that I have not included, please let me know in the comments)​

Good Luck and Happy Hunting!

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