Massachusetts Online Historical Newspapers Summary

Massachusetts is one of the states that do not have a central online repository for searching historical newspapers. Several states use the Library of Congress Chronicling America site as their main central online site for searching old newspapers. A few have a central portal for many of the newspapers that have been digitized. The online newspaper titles are available from several different sites, many free, and many require a subscription. Below is a list of where the titles are stored and the link so that you can access them. 

There are around 4,500 newspapers that have been published in the Bay State – not all of them are searchable online. But there are quite a few that are indeed available. So go for it – find your Massachusetts 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)

Massachusetts Historical Newspapers

Free Sites:

Statewide Collections:

Chronicling America – Massachusetts

The Links for Chronicling America go to the new Version 2.0

• Cronaca Sovversiva (Barre, Vt.) 1903-1920
• Der Izraeliṭ = the Israelite (Providence, R.I.) 1895-189?
• Hartford-Springfield Chronicle (Springfield, Mass.) 1940-194?
• Lancaster Gazette (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830
• Massachusetts Spy and Worcester Advertiser ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825
• Massachusetts Weekly Spy (Worcester [Mass.]) 1858-1882
• Morning Star (Limerick, Me.) 1826-1904
• Springfield Republican (Springfield, Mass.) 1838-1851
• Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.) 1851-1946
• The Boston Advance (Boston, Mass.) 1896-1907
• The Boston Courant (Boston, Mass.) 1890-19??
• The Daily Spy (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850
• The Guardian (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960
• The Liberator (Boston, Mass.) 1831-1865
• The Massachusetts Spy (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772
• The Massachusetts Spy (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823
• The Massachusetts Spy (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858
• The Massachusetts Spy, and Worcester County Advertiser ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831
• The Massachusetts Spy, Or, Thomas’s Boston Journal (Boston [Mass.]) 1772-1775
• The Worcester Spy (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904
• Thomas’s Massachusetts Spy, Or, Worcester Gazette (Worcester, Mass.) 1811-1821
• Worcester Daily Press (Worcester, Mass.) 1873-1878
• Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888
• Worcester Morning Daily Spy (Worcester, Mass.) 1888-1898

Google News Archive

• Boston – Post-Gazette
• Boston – Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston – Boston Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston – Boston Evening Transcript
• Boston – The Real Paper
• Boston – Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston – The Boston Phoenix
• Edgartown – Vineyard Gazette
• Fall River – L’Echo du Canada
• Fall River – L’Independant
• Harvard – Other Stand
• Haverhill – Haverhill Museum
• Haverhill – Merrimack Intelligencer
• Holyoke – La Justice
• Lowell – L’Etoile
• New Bedford – New Bedford Mercury
• New Bedford – New Bedford Evening Journal
• Newton – Computer World
• Norton – The Hometown News
• Southbridge – The Southbridge Journal
• Springfield – Le Citoyen Franco-Americain
• Turner Falls – The Turners Falls Reporter
• Worcester – L’Etendard National
• Worcester – Le Travailleur 
• Worchester F – L’Opinion Publique

County and Library Collections:

Barnstable County

Brooks Free Library Historical Newspapers

• Harwich Independent
• Harwich Oracle
• Central Cape Press
• Orleans Record
• Cape Cod Republican

Falmouth Public Library

• The Falmouth Enterprise
• Cape Cod Independent

Provincetown Public Library

• New Beacon
• Provincetown Advocate
• Provincetown Banner
• Provincetown Beacon
• Provincetown News

Sandwich Town Archives

• Academy Breezes
• Cape Cod Advocate and Nautical Intelligencer
• Cape Cod Gazette
• Cape Cod News
• Casino Bulletin
• Sandwich Broadsider
• Sandwich Independent
• Sandwich Observer
• The Barnstable Press
• The Bourne Independent
• The Cotuit Citizen
• The Falmouth Journal
• The Hyannis Tribune
• The Independent
• The Osterville Times
• The Sagamore Herald
• The Sandwich Enterprise
• The Sandwich Independent
• The Sandwich Observer
• The Sandwich Review
• The Seaside Press
• The Village Broadsider
• The Wareham Courier
• The Weekly Review

Berkshire County

Adams Free Library

• Adams News And Transcript
• Hoosac Valley News And Transcript
• The Adams Freeman
• The Adams Transcript
• The North Adams Transcript
• The Weekly Transcript And Berkshire County Intelligencer
• Weekly Transcript

Lee Public Library

• Berkshire Gleaner
• Valley Gleaner

Bristol County

Attleboro Public Library

• The Attleboro Sun
• The Sun Chronicle

Mansfield Public Library

• Mansfield News
• Foxboro Times
• The Mansfield News and The Foxboro Times
• The Evening Chronicle

Mansfield Public Library

• Mansfield News
• Journal-News Independent

Fall River Public Library

• Fall River Globe
• The Herald News
• Fall River Herald
• Fall River Herald and Evening News
• Fall River Herald News
• The Evening Herald

Essex County
Amesbury Public Library

• Amesbury Advocate
• Amesbury and Salisbury Villager
• Amesbury Daily
• Amesbury Daily News
• Amesbury Hospital Courier
• Amesbury News
• Amesbury Times
• Daily News
• Essex Transcript
• Leader
• Merrimac Valley Times
• Merrimac Valley Echo
• Morning Courier
• River Side Press
• Transcript
• Village Transcript
• Villager
• Weekly News

Beverly Public Library

• Beverly Citizen
• Beverly Evening Times
• Saturday Morning Citizen

Boxford Town Library

• Pennysaver
• Tri Town Transcript
• Tri Town Transcript and Pennysaver
• US News and World Report

Flint Public Library

• Tri Town Transcript
• US News and World Report
• Tri Town Transcript and Pennysaver
• Pennysaver

Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library

• Gloucester Daily Times And Cape Ann Advertiser
• Gloucester Daily Times

Ipswich Public Library

• Columbian Centinel
• Ipswich Bulletin
• Ipswich Independent
• Ipswich Observer
• Ipswich Register
• Ipswich Today
• National Gazette And Literary Register
• The Ipswich Chronicle
• Today’s Magazine

Lynn Public Library

• Daily Evening Item

Manchester By The Sea

• Beetle and Wedge
• Cape Ann Advertiser
• Manchester Cricket
• Manchester Cricket and Essex Echo

Manchester Cricket

• Beetle and Wedge
• Cape Ann Advertiser
• Manchester Cricket
• Manchester Cricket and Essex Echo
• The Manchester Cricket

Nevins Memorial Library

• The Methuen Transcript
• Methuen Transcript And Essex Farmer
• Methuen Life

Abbott Public Library

• Marblehead Messenger
• Marblehead Reporter
• Reporter

Newburyport Public Library

• American Signal
• Boston Courier
• Boston Daily Bee
• Boston Gazette
• Comet
• Daily American Signal
• Daily Bee
• Daily Herald
• Essex Journal
• Essex Journal And Merrimack Packet
• Essex Journal And New Hampshire Packet
• Essex Journal And The Massachusetts And New Hampshire
• Essex Journal Or New Hampshire Packet
• Essex Journal Or The New Hampshire Packet
• Herald
• Herald Of The United States
• Herald Office
• Herald Office
• Impartial Herald
• Independent Chronicle And Boston
• Independent Whig
• Massachusetts Spy Or Worcester Gazette
• Morning Star
• New York Morning Post
• Newburyport Daily Herald
• Newburyport Daily News
• Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald
• Newburyport Herald
• Newburyport Herald And Commercial Gazette
• Newburyport Herald And Country Gazette
• Newburyport Herald Commercial And Country Gazette
• Pennsylvania Packet And Daily Advertiser
• Political Gazette
• Salem Gazette
• Statesman
• Sun
• Thomas Massachusetts Spy Or Worcester Gazett

Newburyport Public Library

• The Daily News

Peabody Institute Library of Danvers

• Danvers Mirror
• Danvers Herald

Franklin County
Montague Public Library Digital Archives

• The Turners Falls Reporter
• Turners Falls Reporter
• Turners Falls Herald 

Wheeler Memorial Library

• Orange Journal
• Orange Enterprise
• Enterprise and Journal
• Millers Falls News
• Orange Enterprise and Journal

Hampden County
Westfield Athenaeum Library

• Hampden County Leader
• The Valley Echo
• The Westfield Journal
• Times and News-Letter
• Western Hampden Leader
• Western Hampden Times
• Western Hampden Times and Westfield News-Letter
• Westfield Daily Journal
• Westfield Daily Times
• Westfield Evening Echo
• Westfield Evening Journal
• Westfield News Letter
• Westfield Times

Wilbraham Public Library

• Wilbraham Hampden Times
• Times

Middlesex County
Acton Memorial Library

• Acton Beacon
• Acton Bedford Enterprise
• Acton Enterprise
• Acton Liberty Bell
• Assabet Valley Beacon
• Concord Enterprise
• Concord Maynard Enterprise
• The Acton Beacon
• The Beacon

Ayer Library

• Groton Public Spirit
• Public Spirit
• The Public Spirit
• The Weekly Public Spirit
• Turners Public Spirit
• Nashoba Valley Voice
• Times Free Press
• Times Free Press Public Spirit
• The Weekly Town Crier

Bedford Public Library

• Bedford Minute-Man
• Bedford Minute-Man and Bedford Times
• Bedford Bulletin
• Bedford Enterprise
• Bedford Minuteman
• The Telephone

Cary Memorial Library

• Lexington Independent
• Lexington Minute-Men
• Lexington Townsman
• Lexington Townsman And Lexington Times-Minute-Man
• The Lexington Patriot
• The Lexington Times
• The Lexington Times And Lexington Minute-Men

Flint Memorial Library

• North Reading Transcript

Goodnow Library

• Citizen
• Fence Viewer
• Lincoln Citizen
• Sudbury Citizen
• Sudbury Enterprise
• Sudbury Tab
• Sudbury Town Crier
• Sudbury Town Crier and Fence Viewer
• Sudbury Town Crier and Tab
• Wayland Citizen

Hudson Public Library

• Hudson Daily Sun
• Hudson News Enterprise
• News Enterprise
• Hudson News-Enterprise
• Marlboro Daily Enterprise
• Enterprise Sun
• Feltonville Standard
• Marlboro Enterprise
• Marlboro Mirror-Journal
• The Hudson Daily Sun
• The Hudson Enterprise
• The Hudson News
• The Hudson News-Enterprise
• The Hudson Pioneer
• The Hudson Register
• The Marlboro Mirror
• The Maynard Journal
• The Minuteman Chronicle
• The Pioneer
• The Southboro Press
• The Stow Sentinel

J.V. Fletcher Library

• Eagle
• Westford Eagle
• Rustic
• Liberty Bell
• Beacon

Lincoln Public Library

• Fence Viewer

Lucius Beebe Memorial Library

• Wakefield Daily Item
• Wakefield Citizen And Banner
• The Wakefield Citizen

Maynard Public Library

• The Maynard News
• Maynard Enterprise
• The Assabet Valley Beacon

Melrose Public Library

• Melrose Free Press
• Melrose Journal
• Melrose Record
• Melrose Weekly Visitor
• The Melrose Free Press
• The Melrose Reporter
• The Melrose Visitor

Morse Institute Library

• Natick Bulletin
• Natick Bulletin and Tab
• Natick Suburban Press
• Natick Suburban Press and Recorder
• NewsWest
• Suburban Free Press and The County Recorder
• Suburban Press and Recorder
• The Bulletin Board
• The Natick Bulletin
• The Natick Bulletin and Natick Sun
• The Natick Citizen
• The Natick Herald
• The Natick Observer
• The Natick Sun
• The Natick Times

Parlin Memorial Library

• Everett Evening News-Gazette
• Everett Leader-Herald
• Everett Leader-Herald And News Gazette
• The Everett Leader-Herald

Reading Public Library

• Daily Times Chronicle
• Reading Chronicle
• Reading Weekly News And Chronicle
• The Daily Times And Chronicle
• The Daily Times Chronicle
• The Reading Chronicle
• Middlesex Journal

Robbins Library

• Arlington Advocate
• Arlington Daily News
• Arlington Enterprise
• Arlingtonian Herald
• Index to Arlington Advocate
• Index to Arlington Enterprise
• Index to Arlington News
• Middlesex Townsman
• The Arlington News
• The Arlington News The Arlington Press
• The Arlington Press
• The Arlingtonian

Somerville Public Library

• Somerville Journal
• Somerville Community News
• Somerville Citizen

Stoneham Public Library

• Stoneham Independent
• Independent
• Holiday Independent
• Stoneham Daily Independent
• Stoneham Press
• Stoneham Ledger
• The Stoneham Independent

Tewksbury Public Library

• Merrimack Valley Advertiser
• Scroll
• Tewksbury Advertiser
• Tewksbury Advocate
• Tewksbury Town Crier
• Times Advertiser

Norfolk County
Brookline Public Library

• The Chronicle
• Brookline Chronicle
• Brookline Independent
• Brookline News
• Brookline Transcript
• Brookline Tribune
• The Brookline Journal News
• The Brookline News
• The Brookline Press
• The Brookline Townsman
• The Suburban
• Brookline Chronicle Citizen
• Brookline Citizen
• Brookline Citizen and Brookline Press
• Brookline Press
• Brookline Citizen Journal
• Brookline Spy
• The Brookline Bulletin
• The Brookline Journal
• The Brookline Standard
• The Brookline Tab

Foxborough Historical Commission

• Foxboro Reporter
• Norfolk County Chronicle
• The Eagle and Flag
• The Foxboro Courier
• The Foxboro Gazette
• The Foxboro Times
• The Home Library
• The Salmagundi Journal
• The Foxboro Reporter

Franklin Public Library

• Franklin Sentinel
• Franklin Register

Morrill Memorial Library

• Advertiser and Review 1887 – 1894
• Norwood Advertiser 1894 – 1905
• Norwood Free Press 1937 – 1950
• Norfolk County Free Press 1950 – 1962
• Norfolk County Press 1962 – 1965

Holbrook Public Library

• Holbrook Sun
• Holbrook Times
• The Holbrook Sun

Sharon Public Library

• Sharon Advocate
• Sharon Enterprise
• Sharon Item
• Sharon Ozone
• Sharon Sentinel
• Sharon Transcript
• The Sharon Advocate
• Times Advocate

Stoughton Public Library

• Stoughton Chronicle
• Stoughton News
• The Easton Journal
• The Stoughton News Sentinel
• The Stoughton Sentinel
• Canton Journal
• Stoughton Chronicle And News Sentinel
• Stoughton Journal
• Stoughton Record

Turner Free Library Digital Archive

• Randolph Herald
• Randolph Mariner

Wellesley Free Library

• The Townsman

Plymouth County

Hingham Public Library

• Hingham Gazette
• Hingham Journal
• Hingham Journal And South Shore Advertiser
• Hingham Patriot
• Spunkville Chronicle

Hull Public Library

• The Hull Beacon
• Hull News Mirror

Middleborough Public Library

• Middleboro News
• Middleborough Gazette
• Namasket Gazette
• The Middleboro Gazette
• The Middleborough Gazette and Old Colony Advertiser

Scituate Town Library

• Cohasset Cottager
• Marshfield Mail
• Mirror
• Scituate Herald
• Scituate Mariner
• Scituate Mirror
• Scituate Mirror Summer
• South of Boston
• South of Boston Mirror
• South Shore Mirror
• South Shore News
• South Shore Weekly Mirror

Suffolk County
Bunker Hill Community College

• The Third Rail
• The Monument

Revere Public Library

• Revere Journal

Worcester County
Beals Memorial Library

• Winchendon Courier
• The Winchendon Courier
• The Winchendon Journal

Gladys Kelly Library

• The Times
• The Webster Times
• The Webster Weekly Times
• Webster Daily Times
• Webster Evening Times
• Webster Times

Haston Free Library

• North Brookfield Journal
• The Journal

Leominster Public Library

• Leominster Daily Enterprise
• Leominster Enterprise
• Enterprise
• The Pioneer
• The Daily Sentinel and Leominster Enterprise

Optical Heritage Museum

• American Optical News

Thayer Memorial Library

• The Item

Andover Memorial Hall Library Historical Newspaper Collection (1853–1925)

• Andover Advertiser
• Andover Townsman
• Lawrence American

Belmont Public Library Historical Newspapers

• Belmont Bulletin Mar. 8, 1890 – Feb. 26, 1898
• Belmont Tribune Nov.14, 1902 – Apr. 14, 1916
• Belmont Courier Jan. 2, 1889 – Dec. 1, 1917
• Belmont Patriot Jan. 5, 1918 – Dec. 28, 1918
• Belmont Citizen Mar. 29, 1919 – Mar. 31, 1988
• Belmont Herald Jan. 5, 1945 – April 1, 1988
• Belmont Citizen Herald April 7, 1988 – 2015

Brookline Public Library Newspapers – (index only)

• Brookline Chronicle
• Brookline Chronicle-Citizen
• Brookline Citizen (1980s-1990s)
• Brookline Citizen (1930s-1950s)
• Brookline Citizen Journal
• Brookline Independent
• Brookline Journal
• Brookline Journal-News
• Brookline News (1880s)
• Brookline News (1930s)
• Brookline Press
• Brookline Spy
• Brookline Standard
• Brookline Suburban
• Brookline TAB
• Brookline Townsman
• Brookline Transcript
• Brookline Tribune
• Boston Globe
• Boston Herald-Traveler
• Boston Herald
• Brookline Magazine
• Our Town Brookline

Cambridge Public Library – Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection

• Boston Herald American’s Cambridge Rambler
• The Cambridge Chronicle
• The Cambridge Express
• The Cambridge Press
• The Cambridge Sentinel
• The Cambridge Tab
• The Cambridge Tribune
• Fax

Cohassett Library

• Cohasset Citizen
• Cohasset Cottager
• Cohasset Mariner

Concord Free Public Library – Cambridge Newspapers Up To the Civil War

• Middlesex Gazette May 4, 1816 – Sep. 1, 1821
• Middlesex Observer June 22, 1822 – June 14, 1823
• Concord Gazette & Middlesex Yeoman Nov. 29, 1823 – Feb. 25, 1826
• Yeoman’s Gazette Mar. 4, 1826 – Jul. 18, 1840
• The Republican July 24, 1840 – Aug. 6, 1841
• Concord Freeman Dec. 11, 1834 – Mar. 19, 1847
• The Sunbeam Sept. 27, 1839 – Nov. 15, 1839
• Middlesex Freeman Feb. 2, 1851 – Jul. 2, 1852
• The Monitor April 19, 1862 – June 21, 1862

Eldredge Public Library Chatham and Cape Cod Collection

• Chatham Monitor
• The Chatham Shopper News
• The Chatham News 
• Lower Cape Cod Chronicle
• Cape Cod Chronicle

Nantucket Atheneum’s Digital Historic Newspaper Archive

• Nantucket Gazette: 1816-17
• Nantucket Commerce Gazette: 1816-17
• Nantucket Weekly Magazine: 1817-18
• Nantucket Journal: 1826-28
• The Islander: 1840-43
• Weekly Telegraph: 1843
• The Telegraph: 1843
• Daily Telegraph: 1843-44
• Morning Telegraph: 1844-45
• The Warder: 1846
• The Daily Warder: 1846
• Island Review: 1874-78
• Island Review: 1874-78
• Nantucket Journal: 1878-99
• The Daily Nantucket: 1889-99
• Nantucket Light: 1964-65
• Nantucket Inquirer: July 5, 1821 to Dec.29, 1847
• Nantucket Weekly Mirror: June 14, 1845 to March 1865
• Inquirer: Jan. 5, 1848 to June 29, 1855
• Nantucket Inquirer: July 6, 1855 to March 22, 1865
• The Inquirer and Mirror: April 1, 1865 to 2013

Student Collections:

Amherst College – Amherst

• The Student

Assumption College – Worcester

• Le Provocateur
• Provocateur

Assumption High School – Worcester

• Heritage

Babson College – Wellesley

• Babson Free Press (Fall 1970 – 2015)
• Babson Globe News (Fall 1957 – Spring 1961)
• Babson Liberated Press (Fall 1969 – Spring 1970)
• The Exec (Fall 1961 – Spring 1965)
• The Executive (Fall 1965 – May 1969)

Bay Path University – Longmeadow

• News

Bentley University – Waltham

• Vanguard

Boston Latin School – Boston

• Argo
• Register
• Boston Latin School Argo
• Latin School Register

Boston College – Boston

• 885
• AHANA collage
• Boston Pilot (1838-1857)
• C21 Resources
• Collage
• Inscape
• Irish Literary Supplement
• Jesuit, or, Catholic sentinel (1829-1831)
• Jesuit, or, Catholic sentinel (1834)
• Literary and Catholic Sentinel (1835)
• Pilot
• The Heights
• The Sacred Heart Review
• The Sisyphus Papers
• The Stylus
• United States Catholic Intelligencer (1831-1833)

Boston College Law School – Boston

• The Alledger

Boston University – Boston

• BU Today

Brandeis University – Waltham

• Justice
• Brandeis Hoot

Bridgewater State Normal School – Bridgewater

• The Normal Offering

Bridgewater State University – Bridgewater

• Comment

Cape Cod Community College

• Beacon
• Main Sheet

Center School – Longmeadow

• NewsCenter

College of the Holy Cross – Worcester

• Crusader
• Tomahawk

Concord-Carlisle High School – Concord

• The Voice

Eastern Nazarene College – Quincy

• The Campus Camera

Emerson College – Boston

• Berkeley Beacon
• The Berkeley Beacon

Emmanuel College – Boston

• Focus

Fitchburg State University – Fitchburg

• College Courier
• Cycle
• Gavel
• Hickory Stick
• Kampus Vue
• Point
• Rhetoric
• Shaft
• State Norma-lite
• Stick
• Strobe
• Th’cycle
• The Normal Record
• Twig

Framingham State University – Framingham

• The Gatepost 

Gordon College – Wenham

• Tartan

Greenfield Community College – Greenfield

• Prometheus
• The Forum

Harvard University – Cambridge

• Harvard Crimson 
• Harvard Echo
• Harvard Weekly Calendar
• The Crimson 

Lasell University – Newton

• The 1851 Chronicle

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School – Sudbury

• The Forum

Lowell Textile/Technological Institute – Lowell

• The Text

Malden High School – Malden

• The Blue and Gold

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Cambridge

• Tech 
• Tech 
• Tech 

Massachusetts College of Optometry – Boston

• The Scope

Mount Holyoke College – South Hadley

• Mount Holyoke News

Newton North High School – Newton

• The Newtonite

Northeastern University – Boston

• Huntington News

Perkins School for the Blind – Watertown

• Lantern

Phillips Academy – Andover

• The Phillipian

Radcliffe College – Cambridge

• The Bay Tree – (1925-1926)
• Etc. – (1938-1942)
• Excerpts – (1974)
• From the Forum – (November 1977-June 1978)
• Make a Record for Radcliffe – (1921-1923)
• Radcliffe Culinary Times – (1991-2007)
• Radcliffe Daily – (1927-1932)
• Radcliffe News – (1914-1927)
• Radcliffe News – (1933:Oct.-1958: Oct.Gaps)
• Radcliffe News – (1989-2002)
• Radcliffe News Bulletin – (July-October 1944)
• Radcliffe news presents By-line – (1952-1955)
• Radcliffe News-Daily – (1932-1933)
• Radcliffe re-news – (1947-1961)
• Radcliffe Round-Up – (December 1935 – October 1941)
• Radcliffe Union of Students Newsletter – (March 1968-May 1970)
• Radcliffe: News from the College – (1961-1977)
• Rap-up – (1969)
• RGA Newsletter – (October 1962 – December 1967)
• Seventh Sister – (1977-1984)
• Signature (formerly Radditudes) – (1947-1950)
• The Crucible – (1911)
• The Radcliffe Promoter – (1952-1965)

Roxbury Community College – Boston

• Gateway Gazette

Smith College – Northampton

• Smith Alumnae Quarterly digital archive
• Smith College Monthly
• Sophian

Springfield College – Springfield

• Nobody’s Business
• The Springfield Student

Tufts University – Medford

• Tufts Daily

University of Massachusetts – Amherst

• Aggie Life 
• College Monthly 
• College Signal 
• Friday War Cry
• Massachusetts Collegian 
• Razor Blade 
• The Plague 

University of Massachusetts – Lowell

• The Connector

Wayland High School – Wayland

• Student Press

Wellesley College  – Wellesley

• The Courant
• The Prelude
• The Wellesley News

Wellesley High School – Wellesley

• The Bradford

Westfield State University – Westfield

• Campus Voice

Williams College – Williamstown

• The Williams Record
• Williams Advocate
• Record Advocate

Worcester Polytechnic Institute – Worcester

• Newspeak
• The Tech News
• The WTI

Miscellaneous Collections and Indexes:

Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr. 

• Boston Chronicle
• Boston Evening-Post and supplements
• Boston Gazette, and Country Journal and supplements
• Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser
• Boston Weekly News-Letter
• Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser
• Essex Gazette
• Massachusetts Gazette and supplements
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser
• New-England Chronicle
• New-England Chronicle or, the Essex Gazette

Woburn Public Library Newspaper Indexes

• Grattan Echo Index, 1881-1882
• Guide-Post Index, 1847-1848
• Union Weekly Index, 1884
• Weekly Advertiser Index, 1846
• Woburn Citizen 1935-1936 Newspaper Index
• Woburn City Press Index, 1889-1891
• Woburn Daily City Press Index, 1891-1892
• Woburn Gazette Index, 1844-1846
• Woburn Telegram Index, 1914
• Woburn Townsman Index, 1864
• Woburn Weekly Budget Index, 1857-1863
• Woburn/Middlesex Journal Index, 1851-1913, A-D
• Woburn Advertiser Index, 1871-1888
• Woburn Daily Times Index, 1904-1980 non-consecutive, 1995-2014

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942

• Andover – Harold Parker Review (Company 110)
• Assonet – 110Th Co. Daily (Company 110)
• Assonet – 110Th Co. News (Company 110)
• Assonet – 110Th Review (Company 110)
• Assonet – Out-Guard (Company 105)
• Athol – Montachusett News (Company 120)
• Athol – Montachusett (Company 120)
• BaldwinVille – Axe And Quill (Company 167)
• BaldwinVille – Otter River News (Company 1102)
• Becket – Eagle (Company 120)
• Becket – October Mountain Eagle (Company 120)
• Becket – October Mountain Outlook (Company 125)
• Becket – Sawdust (Company 120)
• Brimfield – Screech Owl (Company 136)
• Charlemont – Mohawk Leader (Company 143)
• Charlemont – Tannery Bark (Company 143)
• Chester – Ink Crumbs (Company 113)
• East Otis – Vet (Company 372)
• Chester – Plutocrat (Company 113)
• Chester – Quarrytown Crier (Company 113)
• Fitchburg – Camp Sweepings (Company 197)
• Fitchburg – Notown Review (Company 197)
• Hawley – The Hawley Hawk (Company 114)
• Millers Falls – Aristocrat (Company 116)
• New Marlboro – Beaver (Company 196)
• North Adams – Florida Flyer (Company 143)
• North Reading – 167Th Company Times (Company 167)
• North Reading – Company 167 C.C.C. Times (Company 167)
• North Reading – Green Mountain Herald (Company 167)
• Palmer – Camp Courier (Company 173)
• Pittsfield – Esprit De Corps (Company 127)
• Pittsfield – Ghost Of Greylock (Company 107)
• Pittsfield – Greylock Tower (Company 107)
• Pittsfield – Lulu-Weekly Lampost (Company 127)
• Pittsfield – Mt. Grelock Flashes (Company 107)
• Pittsfield – Panorama (Company 107)
• Plymouth – Myles Standish News (Company 103)
• Plymouth – Puritan Gossip (Company 102)
• Savoy – Tannery Eagle (Company 128)
• South Lee – Beartown Call (Company 108)
• South Lee – Beartown Ccc C-All (Company 108)
• Spencer – Among The Pines (Company 198)
• West Granville – Ye Granville Mare (Company 114)
• Windsor Jambs – The Jamboreers (Company 115)

Independent Voices – Alternative Newspapers

• 99TH BUMMER
• Alcheringa
• Amazon Quarterly
• Audience
• BDRG Newsletter
• Black Belt Woman
• Bring the Troops Home Now Newsletter
• Catharsis
• Fire Exit
• Free Fire Zone
• Lavender Vision
• Liberation News Service
• Modern Occasions
• Morning Report
• New England Military News
• No More Fun and Games
• Old Mole
• Origin
• Osawatomie
• Osiris
• Raw Truth, The
• Reservists Against War
• Resist
• Second Wave: A Magazine for the New Feminism
• Shell
• Sojourner
• Top Secret
• United Artists

Franklin County News Archive Index

Greater Lowell Newspaper Archive

• Lowell Courier
• Lowell Daily Courier
• Lowell Daily Journal and Courier
• Lowell Morning Courier
• Lowell Sun
• Lowell Patriot
• Lowell Free Press

Small Town Papers

• The Ashfield News
• The Brookfield Citizen
• Post-Gazette
• Vineyard Gazette
• La Gazetta Boston
• La Gazetta Del Massachusetts Boston
• Norton Hometown News Norton
• Norton Shopper Norton

Old Fulton Postcards

• Andover MA Advertiser
• Boston MA Christian Science Monitor
• Boston MA Hellenic Chronicle
• Boston MA Illustrated Police News
• Boston MA Liberator
• Boston MA Masonic Mirror
• Boston MA Pilot
• Boston MA Weekly Messenger
• Cambridge MA Chronicle
• Greenfield MA Daily Recorder
• Greenfield MA Franklyn Democrat
• Greenfield MA Franklyn Herald
• Greenfield MA Gazette
• Greenfield MA Recorder
• Lawrence MA Ameican
• Lawrence MA American
• Lowell MA Courier
• Newton MA Graphic
• Quincy MA Sun
• Weymouth MA Gazette
• Wiggins MA Enterprise

Portuguese American Digital Newspaper Collections

• Diario de Noticias 
• O Colonial 
• O Heraldo Portuguez

Digital Commonwealth Newspaper Clippings 

James Michael Curley Notebook Collection – clippings

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

Other Free Sites:

Agawam

• Agawam Advertiser News

Barre

• Barre Gazette

Becket

• Country Journal

Belchertown

• Sentinel 
• Belchertown, Granby and Amherst Sentinel

Berkshire

• Berkshire Eagle

Boston

• American Traveller
• Amerikas Westnesis 
• Avatar 
• Banner of the Church
• Boston Gazette and Country Journal
• Boston Globe Archives 
• Boston Irish Reporter
• Boston Post
• Christian Register
• Colored American Magazine
• Congregationalist
• Courier de Boston 
• Crux – 2014-present
• Der Emes̀ – דער אמת (בוסטון)
• Der Idisher zshurnal – דער אידישער זשורנאל
• Di Bosṭoner idishe shṭime – דיא באָסטאָנער אידישע שטימע
• East Boston Community News
• Excelsior 
• Fatat Boston 
• Gazzetta del Massachusetts
• Il Moscone
• Illustrated Police News
• Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot 
• Jewish Times 
• Jingo
• Liberator
• Liberator 
• Liberator 
• New England Palladium 1803, 1812
• New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser   
• Publick Occurences
• Remonstrance Against Woman Suffrage
• Repertory and General Advertiser     
• Repertory 
• Sheet Anchor
• Sheet Anchor
• Freedmen’s Record
• The Gleaner
• The Guardian
• The Irish Echo
• The Repertory
• The Watchman
• Worker 

Braintree

• The Pilot – 2003-present

Cabotville

• Olive Leaf

Chestnut Hill

• Heights – 1919-2010

Chicopee

• Chicopee Weekly Journal
• Olive Leaf
• Chicopee Register

Cohasset

• Mariner

Danvers

• Danvers Courier

East Cambridge

• Sacred Heart Review – 1888-1918

Fairhaven

• Fairhaven Star

Fitchburg

• Voice of Industry 
• Raivaaja

Franklin County

• Greenfield Gazette & Courier

Groton

• Turner’s Public Spirit

Lenox

• Massachusetts Eagle

Lowell

• Lowell Advertiser 
• Voice of Industry 

Marion

• Wanderer

Mattapoisett

• The Wanderer
• Mattapoisett Presto Press

Milford

• Mammoth

New Bedford

• Whalemen’s Shipping List and Merchants’ Transcript

Orleans

• Cape Codder

Palmer

• Palmer Journal
• Journal Register

Plymouth

• Plymouth Cordage News

Quincy

• Quincy Sun

Salem

• Essex Register
• Salem Register

South Hadley

• Town Reminder

Springfield

• The Republican

Sturbridge

• Quaboag Current

Waltham

• Justice 1949-2004

Wendell

• Wendell Post 

Weymouth

• Weymouth Gazette

Wilbraham

• Wilbraham-Hampden Times

Wilmington

• Wilmington Town Crier

Winchester

• Winchester Star

Worcester

• Crusader – 1925-1989
• The Catholic Free Press – 2011-present
• Scandinavia 
• Svea 
• Worcester Magazine

Subscription or Pay Sites:

Ancestry.com:

There are currently 38 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Ancestry – Massachusetts Newspapers

Genealogy Bank:

There are currently 727 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Genealogy Bank – Massachusetts Newspapers

Newspaper Archive:

There are currently 90 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspaper Archive – Massachusetts

Newspapers.com:

There are currently 52 publications available on this site. See all the titles at Newspapers.com – Massachusetts 

And Finally:

You also need to check out the Boston Public Library site, which can tell you what is happening in the state with regard to the newspapers that have been digitized and are becoming available via microfilm or online. Also, they have a catalog of all newspapers in microfilm or original form that can be accessed.

Please note – even more may be available via a local 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.