Introduction: Ever wondered how disease outbreaks affected your ancestors’ daily lives? Long before centralized health departments and modern reporting systems, newspapers served as the primary public warning system during epidemics. Quarantine Notices alerted communities to outbreaks of contagious diseases such as smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and influenza. These brief but urgent announcements named households, […]
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Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections regularly adds or updates newspaper titles to the collections. Last month, 24 titles were added or updated (Information provided by Veridian Software, which powers the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections website). Here is the list of titles for this month: To access the site, go to Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections
Source: Northern New York Library Network If you follow this website at all, you know that I, from time to time, update the free online historical newspapers that are available for you to search. I originally posted the New York Online Historical Newspapers Summary in February 2014 and have added many updates, the latest in November 2024. The largest collection […]
Veridian Software has many clients with collections of digitized newspapers that can be searched for free. Over 200 million pages currently. They power the newspaper collections of California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. And country-wide collections, such as Estonia, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and Switzerland. Veridian is the name of […]
Find My Pastis an underappreciated source for digitized newspapers. It is a subscription site that specializes in British and Irish newspapers. Currently, its collection numbers over 99.4 million pages and is growing rapidly. This month, Find My Past added 27 new titles and added to 68 existing titles. They are listed below: New Titles Updated Titles […]
The British Newspaper Archive, a subscription site owned by FindMyPast, has announced its updates for last month. There are 27 New Titles and 57 Titles that have had issues added. There are a total of over 99.6 million pages available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. […]
NewspaperARCHIVE, a subscription site, announced its updates for last month.There are 27 New Titles and 85 Titles that have had issues added. There are over 16,000 titles available on the site. A complete list of all of the site’s titles can be found HERE. Below are the titles added or updated this month, with the […]
Newspapers.Com is one of the larger subscription newspaper sites. At the date of this publication, they claim over 1.18 billion digitized pages from over 29,900 titles. Here is a list of the new titles from the past month. United States California Colorado Connecticut Florida Idaho Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Nebraska New Jersey New […]
This past week (January 23, 2026 to January 29, 2026), the following additions were made to The Newspaper Research Academy: ✅ Free Resources – 0 New Articles were added – 102 Total ✅ Research Guides – 5 New Guides were added – 112 Total ✅ Video Guides – 0 New Videos – 19 Total ✅ […]
Introduction: Ever wondered how women in your family built community and left their mark? Long before social media or formal organizations, newspapers documented the social fabric of towns through brief notes about sewing circles, Ladies Aid societies, and church-based women’s groups. These small columns—often tucked into local news or society pages—recorded meetings, projects, fundraisers, and […]