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Historical Newspapers

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 (Series 1 & 2) This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to more than 350 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African-American experience. This unique collection, which includes historically significant papers from more than 35 states, features many rare 19th-century titles. Newly digitized, these newspapers published by or for African Americans can now be browsed and searched as never before.

Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a collection of digitized newspapers from all the United States. The collection includes newspapers published between 1798 and 1963; date ranges vary for each newspaper. A variety of search options are available, including by state, ethnicity, language, newspaper title, or date of publication.

The database also includes a separately searchable newspaper directory which provides information about American newspapers published from 1690 to the present.
New York Times: ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Provides full-text of the New York Times from 1851 to 2017

HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Archival collection of hundreds of African American video oral history interviews. As the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive, The HistoryMakers captures the personal testimonies of African Americans since the 1930s.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
Over 3,000 primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history covering 1790 - 2000.
Digital Public Library of America
Open access collection of more than 29 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions.
Umbra Search: African American History
Umbra Search African American History makes African American history more broadly accessible through a freely available widget and search tool bringing together hundreds of thousands digitized materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives across the country.
The Crisis 1910-1922
Modernist Journal Project hosts scans of public domain issues of The Crisis, official publication of the NAACP founded by W.E.B. du Bois.