Newspapers+of+the+Past

  If you are looking for newspaper articles from the past, these websites are great resources for many topics in American History. [|Newseum: World's Most Interactive Museum (Washington, D.C.)]

[|Newspaper Archives: Search History...For Free!]

[|History Buff: Where American History Begins]

[|Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research] You can access articles beginning with the d ecision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case (1857).

[|Library of Congress: Chronicling America] Welcome to Chronicling America, enhancing access to America's historic newspapers. This site allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

[|American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early America Exploration and Settlement] American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society.