Newspapers

Historical U.S. Newspapers

Microform Holdings at UVA

UVA has one of the largest collection of historical US newspapers in the country. The listings below describe or link to holdings information about our historical microform collection. Related electronic resources are also linked.

• Historical U.S. Newspapers in Microform at Alderman Library.
  Search this database to obtain title, date, and call number information.Though this database has not been updated since 2000, it is still very useful for identifying UVA holdings for the 18th century to the 1990's. if you don't find a title you are looking for, search VIRGO or ask for reference help
  
• African-American Newspapers on Microfilm
  List of microfilm held in Alderman and Clemons Libraries, some dating back to the 19th century.
  
• Civil War newspapers (1860-1865)
  Listing of newspapers for this period held at Alderman Library. A subset of the holdings listed in our historical newspaper database.
  
• Early American Newspapers (1690 to19th century)
  Hundreds of titles in both microprint and microfilm formats are available at UVA.
  Do a Begins with//Journal title search in VIRGO to locate individual newspaper titles.
  See searchable digitized version: America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922
  
• The Hampton University Newspaper Clipping File
  African-American history, politics, education and culture from 1873-1940. Over 55,000 clippings on microfiche, from 100 U.S. black newspapers. Call number: Micfich 2157. Guide available
  
• Herstory
  Hard to find journals and newspapers of the women's movement from 1956 to 1974. Call Number: Micfilm S-465. Guide available.
  
• Labor Newspapers
  Listing of titles held at UVA. Early to mid-20th century.
  
• Underground Newspapers
  Over 500 titles from the radical press, 1963-1985, held at UVA.
  

Electronic Full-text Sources

• See resources listed on the main Newspaper page.
  
  

Microfilm Holdings Outside of UVA

• WorldCat
  Search titles not found in VIRGO in this resource. Request desired items through UVA's Interlibrary Services.
  
• Center for Research Libraries
  Only the UVA community may request newspapers in microfilm from CRL through Interlibrary Services.
  
• U.S. Newspaper Program
  The United States Newspaper Program is a cooperative national effort among the states and the federal government to preserve on microfilm newspapers published in the U.S. from the 18th century to the present. Lists of holdings and/or searchable databases of microfilm titles are available for many states. A growing number of states offer digitized newspapers.
  
• Newspapers in Virginia Database
  Search this database for newspapers held in Virginia. This resource is from the Virginia Newspaper Project, part of United States Newspaper Program.
  
• Library of Congress
  See also guides to military newspapers and finding women in newspapers.
  
• American Antiquarian Society: Newspapers
  Original print holdings for the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection contains newspapers from the US, the West Indies, Canada and Great Britain.