Free Newspaper Archives

Pennsylvania Civil War Newspaper Archives, 1831-1877.  More primary materials from Civil War history.  Archive includes eight papers from Gettysburgh.  Full page images and full text search.

The New South newspaper archives, 1862-1866, published in Port Royal and Beaufort, SC.  The War Between the States, as seen from the Confederate point of view in south Carolina.  Archive is full-text searchable.

The Stars and Stripes from WWI, 1918-1919.  Here's a front row seat at at one of the major events of the 20th century.  The American Soldier's newspaper for World War I

Pearl Harbor

New  Walla Wallop, 1944-1946.  From the Army Air Base in Walla Walla, the official World War II base newspaper.

Miscellaneous

Early America, 1750-1790
Only three pages on view here, one of the from Ben Franklin's Gazette.

Chronicling America, 1900-1910, from the Library of Congress.  A very scant collection of various papers...come on, LoC...you can do better than this!

The Labor Press Project.  Numerous examples of socialist and labor newspapers and journals, with titles like The Agitator.  Not searchable, and not a deep resource, but there are many items here not available elsewhere.  Site has a Pacific NW focus, and mostly early 20th century. 

Dziennik Zwiazkowy, a Polish language newspaper from Chicago, 1908-1917

Pittsburgh, PA Jewish Newspaper Project, 1895-Present.  Includes The Jewish Criterion (1895-1962), The American Jewish Outlook (1934-1962), and The Jewish Chronicle (1962-Present).

New   The Southern Israelite, 1929-1958 and 1984-1986.  Printed in Georgia (Atlanta and Augusta), this newspaper is a reflection of the Jewish community in the South, during a time when Hitler was coming to power, European Jewery was disintegrating, the Holocaust took place, and the state of Israel came into being.  What a time of history!  This newspaper is a fascinating historical resource.