This page contains links to historical newspapers from Baltimore and some broad resources like Chronicling America from the Library of Congress.
Temporal Scope : 1756 - 1963
Spatial Scope : 50 United States and the District of Columbia
Languages : Arabic, Choctaw, Cherokee, Czech, Dakota, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Hawaiian, Croatian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Yiddish.
Chronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. Supported by NEH, this rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers database offers full-text access to past issues of Baltimore's pre-eminent African American newspaper. The Afro-American succeeded the Home Protector (1889) and documents vignettes of daily life in Baltimore's African-American community and issues of national interest. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
Established as The Afro-American and then merged with The Ledger in 1900. Succeeding title is Afro-American Ledger 1900-1915, and then reverted back to its original title. Published Weekly. Full-text search only - browse not available. Google Newspaper Archive Provides intermittent access to digital facsimiles of the newspaper to facilitate browse by data and issue. Full-text search available with limited functionality, browse available for extant issues. May 11, 1974 (vol. 82, No. 78) issue misprinted as "May 11, 1794" and appears in Google Archive as 1794.
Published Daily. Intermittent coverage. This paper is most useful for the extensive advertisements and commodity prices for the 19th century. First page or so has current events, politics and other news. Complete publication range goes back to 1800. See more about these papers at the Library of Congress.
Published daily. Intermittent coverage. Title changes to "The Bee" in 1876. Complete publishing range 1875-1878. This title was assumed y the Baltimore Morning Herald. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress. Separate entry HERE for "The Bee."
Published daily. Intermittent coverage. Browse by date with limited search functionality.
Published weekly. Sunday edition of the "Baltimore Morning Herald" Intermittent coverage. Browse by date with limited search functionality.
This database offers full-text access to past issues of the Baltimore Sun, the largest circulating newspaper in Maryland. The Baltimore Sun was previously known as "The Sun" from 1837 to 2008. Full-text search only- no browse not available. See more about this paper from the Library of Congress.
Published weekly. Intermittent coverage for two months in 1901. Complete publishing span from 1900 to 1904.
