U.S. Newspaper Collection

Part of the U.S. Discovery and World Explorer Memberships
U.S. Newspaper Collection

Explore more than 7 million pages in this impressive collection of historical newspapers.

Here’s just some of what you can do:

  • Experience history as if you were there. View images of newspaper pages in the continually growing collection that covers 1786 through 2001.
  • Learn more about your ancestors’ lives through wedding and birth announcements, legal notices, classifieds and more.
  • Use obituaries to discover information including ancestors’ dates of birth and death, home addresses and surviving family members.
  • Get a taste of everyday life. Discover the foods your ancestors ate and the fashions they wore. Discover popular shops, pastimes and more through advertisements and arts-and-entertainment listings.
  • Witness changing patterns in art, politics, religion and technology with these rich chronicles of history.
Annual Membership
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Monthly Membership
$22.95 month
Billed in monthly payments.
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