Maryland Online Historical Newspapers Summary

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(This page's most recent update is October 2024)
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Maryland has several free online collections for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers and currently, Maryland has several newspapers available on that site. There are many free online newspapers also available on other sites and there are collections available on subscription sites. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. 

​There are over 1,700 newspapers that have been published in the Old Line State – certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are several that are indeed available. So go for it – find your Maryland ancestors and all the interesting articles that capture the stories of their lives. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also, I suspect that some of these links may change over time – so if there is a dead link – please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. 

(Recently added links are in BOLD)

Maryland Historical Newspapers

Free Sites:

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America – Maryland Newspapers

The Links for Chronicling America go to the new Version 2.0

• American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846
• Baltimore Commercial Journal, and Lyford’s Price-Current (Baltimore, MD) 1840-1849
• Baltimore Daily Commercial (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867
• Baltimore Wecker (Baltimore [Md.]) 1851-1867
• Catoctin Clarion (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940
• Civilian & Telegraph (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875
• Czas Baltimorski (Baltimore, Md.) 1940-194?
• Democratic Messenger (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973
• Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918
• Der Deutsche Correspondent (Baltimore, Md.) 1848-1918
• Evening Capital (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910
• Evening Capital (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981
• Evening Capital and Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922
• Frederick Citizen (Frederick City, Md.) 1890-1895
• Frostburg Mining Journal (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913
• Frostburg Mining Journal (Frostburg, Md.) 1915-1917
• Genius of Universal Emancipation (Baltimore; Hennepin, Ill.) 1826-1839
• Greenbelt Cooperator (Greenbelt, Md.) 1937-1954
• Greenbelt News Review (Greenbelt, Md.) 1954-Current
• Hammond Gazette (Point Lookout, Md.) 1862-1864
• Il Risorgimento Italiano Nel Maryland (Baltimore, Md.) 1922-19??
• Jedność-Polonia = Unity-Polonia (Baltimore, Md.) 19??-19??
• Katholische Volkszeitung (Baltimore, Md.) 1860-1914
• Maryland Free Press (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??
• Maryland Independent (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-Current
• Maryland Suffrage News (Baltimore, Md.) 1912-1920
• Maryland Women’s News ([Baltimore, Md.]) 1920-19??
• Montgomery County Sentinel (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974
• Port Tobacco Times, and Charles County Advertiser (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898
• Saint Mary’s Beacon (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983
• St. Mary’s Beacon (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863
• St. Mary’s Gazette (Leonard Town, Md.) 1863-1867
• Täglicher Baltimore Wecker (Baltimore [Md.]) 1867-1877
• Telegraf (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951
• The Aegis & Intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923
• The Afro-American (Baltimore, Md.) 1892-1899
• The American Citizen (Baltimore [Md.]) 1879-1???
• The Baltimore County Union (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909
• The Baltimore County Union, the Towson News (Towson, Md.) 1909-1912
• The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.) 1841-Current
• The Cio News (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????
• The Citizen (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923
• The Commonwealth (Baltimore, Md.) 1915-19??
• The Daily Banner (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008
• The Daily Exchange (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861
• The Democratic Advocate (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972
• The Frostburg Forum (Frostburg, Md.) 1897-19??
• The Frostburg Gleaner (Frostburg, Md.) 1899-19??
• The Frostburg Herald (Frostburg, Md.) 1903-19??
• The Frostburg News (Frostburg, Md.) 1897-18??
• The Frostburg Spirit (Frostburg, Md.) 1913-1915
• The Globe-Independent (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??
• The Hagerstown Globe (Hagerstown, Md.) 1936-1943
• The Midland Journal (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947
• The Negro Appeal (Baltimore ; Annapolis, Md.) 1899-19??
• The Pilot (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840
• The Pilot and Transcript (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841
• The Prince George’s Enquirer and Southern Maryland Advertiser (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925
• The Race Standard (Baltimore, Md.) 18??-1???
• The Republican (Oakland, Md.) 1877-Current
• The Southern Aegis (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862
• The Southern Aegis, and Harford County Intelligencer (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864
• The Voice (Cumberland, Md.) 1937-1938
• The Voice of Labor (Cumberland, Md.) 1938-1942
• Trench and Camp (Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919
• Worcester Democrat and the Ledger-Enterprise (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953

Google News Archive

• Baltimore – The Baltimore Bee
• Baltimore – Baltimore Morning Herald
• Baltimore – American and Daily Advertiser
• Baltimore – The Afro American
• Baltimore – American and Commercial Advertiser
• Baltimore – Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser
• Baltimore – Baltimore American
• Baltimore – Sunday Herald
• Baltimore – Baltimore Afro-American
• Baltimore – American & Commercial Daily Advertiser
• Baltimore – The Afro American Ledger
• Baltimore – Baltimore Sunday Herald
• Baltimore – The Weekly Herald
• Cambridge – American Eagle
• Easton – The Maryland Herald
• Easton – Herald and Eastern Shore Intelligencer
• Hancock – The Hancock News

Early State Records Online: Newspapers 1802-1965

American and Commercial Daily Advertiser 

• M890 – September 4, 1802 – December 31, 1804. 
• M891 – January 1, 1805 – June 29, 1805. 
• M892 – July 1, 1805 – December 31, 1805. 
• M893 – January 1, 1806 – June 30, 1806. 
• M894 – July 1, 1806 – December 31, 1806. 
• M895 – January 1, 1807 – June 30, 1807. 
• M896 – July 1, 1807 – December 31, 1807.

Baltimore Clipper 

• M8521 – March 3, 1847 – December 31, 1863. 
• M8522 – January 1, 1864 – December 31, 1864. 
• M8523 – January 2, 1865 – September 30, 1865.

Baltimore Whig 

• M8495 – July 2, 1810 – December 31, 1810.

Cambridge Chronicle 

• M1073 – December 25, 1830 – June 13, 1947. 
• M8778 – January 3, 1846 – December 30, 1857.

Cecil Whig 

• M7443 – August 20, 1870 – August 1, 1874.

Centreville Observer 

• M7951 – June 27, 1871 – October 5, 1918.

Easton Gazette 

• M11033 – May 27, 1854 – December 14, 1861. 
• M11034 – January 4, 1862 – December 2, 1865. 
• M11035 – January 27, 1866 – November 11, 1871.

Ellicott City Times 

• M7985 – September 7, 1870 – December 27, 1879. 
• M7986 – January 2, 1892 – December 30, 1893. 
• M7987 – January 6, 1894 – December 25, 1895. 
• M7988 – January 1, 1898 – December 30, 1899.

Kent County News 

• M5091 – January 6, 1965 – June 30, 1965.

Maryland Gazette

Maryland Journal 

• M1931 – January 5, 1889 – December 28, 1889.

Maryland News Sheet 

• M5153 – September 24, 1861 – December 31, 1861. 
• M5154 – January 1, 1862 – March 31, 1862. 
• M5155 – April 1, 1862 – June 30, 1862. 
• M5156 – July 1, 1862 – August 14, 1862.

Maryland Republican 

• M2957 – June 17, 1809 – December 30, 1809.

Montgomery County Sentinel 

• M476 – January 1, 1860 – December 27, 1872.

Queenstown News 

• M2622 – January 7, 1888 – July 11, 1903.

Republican Star, or, Eastern Shore General Advertiser 

• M2800 – September 7, 1802 – December 27, 1803.

South 

• M10521 – April 22, 1861 – February 17, 1862.

Maryland State Archives

• Aegis & Intelligencer, 1864-1923
• American and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 1802-1853
• American Eagle, 1855-1864
• American Sentinel, 1855-1928
• American Union, 1860-1926
• Baltimore American, 1883-1964
• Baltimore Clipper, 1839-1844
• Baltimore Clipper, 1847-1865
• Baltimore Whig, 1810-1814
• Calvert Gazette, 1885-1957
• Calvert Journal, 1867-1957
• Cambridge Chronicle and E. Shore Advertiser, 1825-1827
• Cambridge Chronicle and Maryland Weekly Advertiser, 1827-1828
• Cambridge Chronicle, 1822-1825
• Cambridge Chronicle, 1828-1855
• Cambridge Chronicle, 1871-190?
• Cambridge Democrat, 185?-1866
• Cambridge Era, 1878-1882
• Cambridge Herald, 1857-1866
• Cambridge Tribune, 1936-19??
• Caroline Intelligencer, 1831-183?
• Cecil County Star, 192?-19??
• Cecil Whig, 1841-Present
• Centreville Evening Times and Eastern Shore Publick Advertiser, 182?-18??
• Centreville Observer, 1864-1936
• Centreville State Rights, 1860-1864
• Centreville Times & Eastern Shore Advertiser, 1822-182?
• Centreville Times and Eastern-Shore Public Advertiser, 1831-18??
• Chestertown Transcript, 1862-1946
• Clearspring Sentinel, 1849-1851
• Daily Banner, 1897-2008
• Democrat and News, 186?-1965
• Democrat, and Dorchester Advertiser, 1845-185?
• Denton Journal, 1847-1965
• Dorchester Aurora, 1835-1840
• Dorchester Era, 1883-1900
• Eastern-Shore Star, 1841-1843
• Eastern-Shore Whig and People’s Advocate, 1828-1841
• Easton Gazette, 1822-1929
• Easton Journal, 1863-1874
• Easton Star, 1843-1896
• Ellicott City Times, 1870-1958
• Enterprise, 1893-19??
• Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser, 1796-1825
• Frostburg Mining Journal, 1871-1913
• Kent County News, 1946-Present
• Kent News, 1840-1946
• Leader, 1887-19??
• Log Cabin Advocate, 1840-1840
• Maryland Colonization Journal, 1835-1840
• Maryland Courier, 1872-1883
• Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer, 1813-1823
• Maryland Gazette and State Register, 1824-1826
• Maryland Gazette, 1727-1734
• Maryland Gazette, 1745-1813
• Maryland Gazette, 1827-1839
• Maryland Gazette, and Frederick Weekly Advertiser, 1790-1792
• Maryland Journal and True American, 1828-1834
• Maryland Journal, 1834-18??
• Maryland Journal, 1845-1852
• Maryland Journal, 1865-1905
• Maryland Journal, and Museum of Politics, Agriculture, and Foreign Literature, 1841-184?
• Maryland News Sheet, 1861-1862
• Maryland Republican, 1809-1817
• Maryland Republican, 1826-1866
• Maryland Suffrage News, 1912-19??
• Midland Journal, 1885-1947
• Montgomery County Sentinel, 1855-1974
• Montgomery Independent, 1927-1946
• Montgomery Press, 1899-19??
• Planter’s Advocate and Southern Maryland Advertiser, 1851-1853
• Planter’s Advocate, 1853-1861
• Port Tobacco Times, and Charles County Advertiser, 1845-1898
• Queen Anne’s Record the Centreville Observer, 1936
• Queen Anne’s Record, 1933-1936
• Queen Anne’s Record-Observer, 1936-1956
• Queenstown News, 1882-1956
• Republican Citizen, 1836-1890
• Republican Star, or, Eastern Shore General Advertiser, 1802-1814
• Republican Star, or, General Advertiser, 1814-1832
• Rockville True American, 1820-182?
• Sharpsburg Enterprise, 1878-188?
• Somerset Herald, 1838-184?
• South, 1861-1862
• St. Mary’s Enterprise, 1883-1947
• State Rights Advocate, 1857-1860
• Williamsport Leader, 1884-1887
• Williamsport Transcript, 188?-189?

County and Library Collections:

Cecil County
Cecil County Historical Society

• Cecil Republican
• Cecil Gazette
• Elkton Press

Montgomery County
Montgomery County Public Libraries

• African American Times
• Montgomery Times

Queen Anne’s County
Queen Anne’s County Library

• Bay Times 
• Kent Island Bay Times 
• Queen Annes Record
• Queen Annes Record Observer 
• Queens Anne’s Record Observer 
• Record Observer 
• Kent Island Bay Times Record Observer
• The Kent Island Bay Times 

St. Mary’s County

St. Mary’s County Library

• Command Histories
• Patuxent Tester
• Saint Marys Beacon
• Southern Maryland News
• The Enterprise

Worcester County
Worcester County Library

• Berlin Advance 
• Democratic Advocate 
• Democratic Messenger 
• Democratic Messenger and the Pocomoke City Messenger 
• Eastern Shore Times 
• Eastern Shoreman 
• Evening Times
• Ledger Enterprise 
• Peninsula Ledger 
• Peninsula Press
• People
• Press 
• Record And Gazette
• Record And Gazette 
• Salisbury Times 
• Salisbury Times And The Wicomico News 
• Snow Hill Messenger 
• Snow Hill Messenger and Worcester County Advertiser 
• St Martins Church Register
• Sun 
• Village Herald 
• Worcester Advocate
• Worcester County Messenger 
• Worcester County Shield
• Worcester County Shield And Farmers Manual 
• Worcester Democrat
• Worcester Democrat And The Ledger Enterprise
• Worcester Shield
• Worcester Shield And Spirit Of The Whig Press

Salisbury University Libraries – Eastern Shore Newspaper Collection

• Berlin Advance
• Berlin News
• Borderer
• Citizen of Maryland
• Courier
• Delaware Advertiser and Farmer’s Journal
• Delaware Weekly Advertiser and Farmer’s Journal
• Eastern Shore Whig and People’s Advocate
• Easton Gazette
• Easton Gazette, and Eastern Shore Intelligencer
• Herald and Eastern Shore Intelligencer
• Maryland Gazette
• Maryland Gazette and Political Intelligencer
• Marylander and Herald
• Republican Star
• Salisbury Advertiser
• Salisbury Advertiser and Eastern Shoreman
• Snow-Hill Messenger
• Snow-Hill Messenger and Worcester County Advertiser
• The Village Herald
• Wicomico News
• Worcester Banner
• Worcester Sentinel, and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Shield

Somerset County Library System

• Crisfield Post
• Crisfield Times
• Marylander and Herald
• Somerset Herald
• Village Herald

Washington County Free Library – Index to Hagerstown Newspapers

• Casket
• Hagerstown Mail
• Herald and Torch Light
• Herald of Freedom
• Herald of Freedom and Torch Light
• Maryland Free Press
• News and Hagerstown News
• Pledge & Advocate of Morals
• Torch Light
• Torch Light & Public Adviser
• Weekly Chronicle
• The Washington Spy 1790-1797

​Washington County Free Library – Hager’stown Newspapers 1797-1804

• Maryland Herald and Elizabeth-Town Advertiser,
• Maryland Herald and Elizabeth-Town Weekly Advertiser
• Maryland Herald and Hager’s-Town Weekly Advertiser

Washington County Free Library – Hager’s-town Newspapers 1805-1809

• Maryland Herald and Hager’s-Town Weekly Advertiser
• Hagers-Town Gazette

Washington County Free Library – Hager’s-town Newspapers 1810-1814

• Maryland Herald and Hagerstown Weekly Advertiser
• Hagerstown Gazette

Student Collections:

Anne Arundel Community College – Arnold

• Campus Current

Bowie State University – Bowie

• The College Eye (1935-1967)
• The Ebony Tree (1968-1978)

Catonsville High School – Catonsville

• The Comet

Coppin State University – Baltimore

• News

Frostburg State University – Frostburg

• Statelines

Gilman Upper School – Baltimore

• The Gilman News

Goucher College – Baltimore​

• The Goucher Weekly
• The Outcry
• ​The Quindecim/Q 

Hood College – Frederick

• Blue and Grey

John Hopkins University – Baltimore

• John Hopkins News-Letter

Loyola University – Baltimore

• Green and Grey
• Greyhound

McDaniel College – Westminster

• The Black and White
• The Goldbug
• Scrimshaw
• The Phoenix
• The McDaniel Free Press

Montgomery College – Rockville

• Excalibur
• Knight’s Quest
• The Globe
• The Spur
• The Griffinette
• The Montgomery College Spur
• The Paper
• The Takoma Excalibur News

Notre Dame University of Maryland – Baltimore

• The Bulletin

Park School – Baltimore

• Post Script

Richard Montgomery High School – Rockville

• The Tide

Rockville High School – Rockville

• Rampage

Salisbury University – Salisbury

• Holly Leaf
• Flyer
• Holly Leaf

St. John’s College – Annapolis

• The Collegian
• Gadfly

St. Mary’s College of Maryland – St. Mary’s City

• The Signal News
• The Point News
• The Empath

Towson University – Towson

• Oriole
• Tower Light
• Tower Light

University of Baltimore – Baltimore

• UBPost

University of Maryland – Baltimore County

• The Retriever

University of Maryland – College Park

• Triangle, 1910 – 1914
• M.A.C. Weekly, 1914 – 1916
• Maryland State Weekly, 1916 – 1919 
• Maryland State Review, 1919 – 1920
• University Review, 1920 – 1921
• Diamondback, 1921 – present
• Black Explosion 1970 – 2016
• The Eclipse 1985 – 2013
• Mitzpeh 1983-2015

Walt Whitman High School – Bethesda

• The Black and White

Washington College – Chestertown

• Washington Elm

Miscellaneous Collections:

Historical Eastern Shore Newspapers

• Berlin Advance
• Delaware Advertiser And Farmer’s Journal
• Delaware Weekly Advertiser And Farmer’s Journal
• Eastern Shore Whig And People’s Advocate
• Easton
• Easton Gazette
• Easton Gazette and Eastern Shore Intelligencer
• The Borderer
• The Courier
• Maryland Gazette
• Herald And Eastern Shore Intelligencer

Independent Voices – Alternative Newspapers

• Highway 13
• Media Report to Women
• Military Law Pojrect News
• New Salute
• Open Ranks
• View from Here, The
• Women: A Journal of Liberation

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942

• ​Beltsville – Big Broadcast (Company 370)
• Berlin – Herring Creek Times (Company 311) 
• Bond – Barrack Bag (Company 1320) 
• Boonsboro – Matador (Company 360) 
• Brandywine – C-Dar-Vil Tell-Us-Scope (Company 335) 
• Cabin John – Tow-Path Journal (Company 333)
• Elkridge – Elkridge Advocate (Company 356) 
• Elkridge – Patapsco (Company 356)
• Flintstone – Greenridge Telescope (Company 335) 
• Flintstone – Woodsman (Company 324)
• Frederick – Braddock Barrage (Company 360) 
• Garrett Park – Garrett Park Express (Company 356) 
• Garrett Park – Peavie (Company 356)
• Harwood – Camp Annapolis Bulletin (Company 368) 
• Harwood – Harwood Helmsman (Company 368) 
• New Germany – Nu Wud News (Company 326)
• Oakland – Bruiter (Company 326) 
• Oakland – Hoot Owl Gazette (Company 304) 
• Oakland – Meadow Mt. Breeze (Company 326) 
• Oakland – Swallow Falls Times-Observer (Company 304)
• Oakland – Youghiogheny Digest (Company 304)
• Public Landing – Stinger (Company 365)
• Sang Run – Piney Echo (Company 377)
• Westover – Somerset Sun (Company 1322) 

Old Fulton Postcards

• Annapoilis MD Evening Capital and Gazette
• Annapolis MD Evening Capital
• Balitmore MD Prince Georges Enquirer
• Baltimor MD Suffrage News
• Baltimore MD American Republican and Clipper
• Bel Air MD Aegis and Intelligencer
• Bel Air MD Southern Aegis
• Cumberland MD CIO News
• Cumberland MD Voice of Labor
• Elkton MD Cecil Whig
• Frederick City MD Democrat Union
• Frederick MD Citizen
• Frostburg MD Mining Journal
• Greenbelt MD Cooperator
• Leonard Town MD St Marys Beacon
• Leonard Town MD St Marys Gazette
• Mechanicstown MD Catoctin Carion
• Pocomoke City MD Ledger Enterprise
• Port Tobacco MD Times and Advertiser
• Rising Sun MD Midland Journal
• Snow Hill MD Democratic Messenger
• Westminster MD Democratic Advocate
• Worcester MD Democrat And Ledger Enterprise

Slaves and Free African Americans, Reports and opinions from the newspapers of Hagerstown, Washington County, and Cumberland, Allegany County, Maryland, 1790 to 1864

Southern School News Archive 

Small Town Papers

• The Hancock News Hancock, Maryland

For Obituary Indexes, transcriptions, and other death/obituary information from historical newspapers, please check out the Obituaries page. 

Other Free Sites:

Annapolis

•  Crutch 

Baltimore​​

• Church Advocate
• The American Farmer
• The Catholic Review
• The Statesman
• Lutheran Observer
• Niles Weekly Register
• The American Farmer 
• The Race Standard
• Polonia: tygodnik polityczny, naukowy i społeczny (1892-1896, 1903-1905, 1926)
• Balṭimor ameriḳaner – באלטימאר אמעריקאנער
• Jewish Comment

Cumberland

• Cumberland News

Denton

• Denton Journal

Greenbelt

• Greenbelt News Review
• Greenbelt Cooperator

Leonard Town

• Saint Mary’s Beacon
• Saint Mary’s Beacon
• Enterprise

Oakland

• The Republican
  

Patuxent River

• The Tester

Westminster

• Carroll County Times
• The Times

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There are currently 43 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – Maryland Newspapers

Genealogy Bank:

There are currently 246 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank – Maryland Newspapers

Newspaper Archive:

There are currently 126 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – Maryland

Newspapers.com:

There are currently 78 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – Maryland.

And Finally:

You also need to visit the Historic Maryland Newspapers Project site from time to time, which can tell you what is occurring in the state with regard to online newspaper availability. 

Please note – even more may be available via a local or state library where a library card is required. And of course, there is always microfilm for those that have not been made available online as yet.

For more links for different states, provinces, and countries – please see the Newspaper Links page on this website.