Early American Newspapers, 1690-1900
Based primarily on the listings in Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 and Winifred Gregory's Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada, this database focuses on newspapers first published before the Civil War. The collection includes over 900 newspapers.

Los Angeles Times (1881-1985), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
-from publisher website
Full-text of LA Times from 1881-1986.
Holdings: 1881-1986

New York Times (1851-2005), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
-from publisher website
Full-text of the New York Times. News, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, birth and marriage announcements, historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements are all searchable and available for viewing and printing. Through the ProQuest interface, a searchable ASCII text underlies each article and page image in ProQuest Historical Newspapers (although the ASCII text is not available for printing or emailing). Users can search by keyword and Boolean operators as well as employ more advanced searching techniques. The results list generated by a search includes detailed bibliographic information for the articles retrieved including article title, publication, issue date, author, page, etc. Articles are emailed in pdf format.
Holdings: 1851-2005

Historical Newspapers Online

Periodicals Index Online
Humanities and social sciences journals with coverage back into the 19th century

19th Century Masterfile
Indexing to 19th century periodicals. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which includes date and title information not in the print version, Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), known as the "British Poole's," Jones and Chipman's Index to Legal Periodicals (1786-1922), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). (Penn subscribed to Series One only.) For more indexing of nineteenth century periodicals, see also Periodicals Contents Index.

Nation Digital Archive
Page images (PDF) and searchable text (OCR) for all issues of The Nation.
Holdings: 1865-

Harpweek
Harper's Weekly from 1857-1912. Excellent interface for searching and retrieval.

Making of America - Cornell site
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 270 books and 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Making of America - Michigan site
Making of America (MOA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Includes digitized images of the pages of 1,100 American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine and America's first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines (some still in print), such as Vanity Fair, Harper's and Ladies' Home Journal.
Holdings: 1740-1900