BYU-Pathway Library: Family History & Genealogy Research: In the News

In the News

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Giving users a window into the news of the past, this website, hosted by the Library of Congress, provides digitized issues of many historic U.S. newspapers between the dates 1777 and 1963. It also provides an index of thousands of U.S. newspapers dating from 1690 to the present.
U.S. News Map
Search over eleven million newspaper pages from Chronicling America between 1789 and 1922.
The newspaper record, containing a complete list of newspapers and periodicals in the United States, Canadas, and Great Britain, together with a sketch of the origin and progress of printing, with some facts about newspapers in Europe and America

British Library Newspapers
A collection of newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century Britain.
Historical Newspapers
Search archives of several US newspapers individually or together, including Chicago Tribune, NYT, and WSJ, plus the Toronto Star (coverage years vary).
Historical newspaper content is among researchers’ most sought-after primary source material.
BYU-Idaho's ProQuest Historical Newspapers access includes the archives of:
- Austin American/Daily/Democratic/Evening Statesman 1880-1980
- Atlanta Constitution/Daily Constitution 1869-1984
- [Baltimore] Sun 1837-
- Boston Globe/Boston Daily Globe 1872-
- Chicago Tribune/Chicago Daily Tribune 1847-
- Christian Science Monitor 1908-
- New York Times/Daily 1851-
- San Francisco Chronicle/Call/Examiner/Daily Dramatic/Morning 1865-1922
- Toronto Star/Daily/Evening 1894-
- Wall Street Journal 1889-
From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, westward expansion, industrial developments, race relations, and World War I and II; to international, local and regional politics, society, arts, culture, business, and sports, these archives reveal the day-to-day news coverage to researchers and historical explorers, providing invaluable insights and information to users from a wide range of subjects.
New York Times
Provides researchers, genealogists, and scholars with searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society, and events since 1851.
Nineteenth Century US Newspapers
Full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. during the 1800s.

Utah Digital Newspapers
Utah Digital Newspapers contains digitized newspapers from all over the state, and continues to digitize lesser-known newspapers. Most content from the 19th & 20th centuries. Curated by the University of Utah.
Google News Archive Search
Provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. In addition to helping you search, News archive search can automatically create timelines which show selected results from relevant time periods.
Online Historical Newspapers
Created and maintained by Miriam Robbins Midkiff, includes links to digitized historical newspapers online available for free or through subscription. This site is not affiliated with BYU-Idaho.
Small Town Newspapers
Choose from over 250 small town newspapers you can read free every week! Browse and search the scanned newspaper archive from 1846 up to the current edition! SmallTownPapers gives you free access to the people, places and events recorded in real time over the decades or even centuries!
This site is not affiliated with BYU-Idaho.
National Library of Finland, Digital Newspapers

Chicago Tribune
This historical newspaper provides searchable first-hand account of the politics, society, & events of Chicago & surrounding area; 1849-1996.

California Digital Newspaper Collection
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 600,000 digitized pages, representing hundreds of individual newspaper titles published in Colorado starting in 1859. Due to copyright restrictions, CHNC does not generally include newspapers published in the past 70 years.
Nebraska Newspapers
Selected newspapers published in the state before 1923.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers
Northern New York Historical Newspapers are provided by the Northern New York Library Network to enhance access to the region's local history. The online collection currently consists of more than 2,191,000 pages from fifty newspapers.
Old New York State Historical Newspapers & Postcards
This extensive collection of historic newspapers is provided and maintained by Tom Tryniski. Not affiliated with BYU-Idaho.
Wyoming Digital Newspaper Collection
Newspapers printed in Wyoming beginning in 1849, in an easily searchable format.

Bear Lake Idaho Newspapers
Digital newspapers from the Bear Lake area of south east Idaho; available through the Bear Lake County Library. Some titles as far back as 1880.
Idaho Newspapers in BYU-Idaho Special Collections
Listings of the newspapers available in BYU-Idaho's Special Collections. Some are in print, some on microfilm, and others digitized.

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Many local newspapers are available to explore. Includes, but not limited to:

Rexburg Newspapers
The Rigby Star
Ashton [1933, 39]
Marysville [1904-05]
Saint Anthony [1907]
Blackfoot Newspapers
Idaho Falls Newspapers