Research Guides: Reconstruction, 1865-1877: Newspapers

Newspapers at UT Tyler

19th Century U.S. Newspapers
Features full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from urban and rural regions throughout the 19th century.
America's Historical Newspapers
Allows exploration of American newspapers from three centuries.
Harper's Weekly, 1857 - 1912
The North's premier illustrated newspaper. Browse issues, or search for specific topics.
Civil War Newspapers - UT Tyler Scholar Works
Files of transcribed articles from Civil War era newspapers primarily from the South. Focuses on the Homefront, Confederate industry, and materials culture.

Free Newspaper Databases on the Internet

Portal to Texas History
Offers digital copies of Texas historic newspapers.
Google News Archive
Archive of newspapers collected by Google. Please note that some of the titles are pay per view.
Chronicling America -- Library of Congress
Newspaper database collected by the Library of Congress. The National Tribune may be especially helpful as it was the official newspaper for Federal veterans.
National Tribune Selected Articles -- UT Tyler Scholar Works
Selected articles from the National Tribune. Includes articles on women soldiers, prisoners at Camp Ford, and Red River Campaign.
California Digital Newspaper Collection
Collection of historical newspapers from California. Search by dates.
Florida Digital Newspapers Library
Provides access to the news and history of Florida Newspapers.
Maryland Newspapers -- Early State Records Online
Scanned microfilm of newspapers from Maryland.
Historic Missouri Newspaper Project
Historic newspapers from Missouri.
Atlantic County (NJ) Digitized Newspapers
Over 5,000 newspapers covering Atlantic County happenings. The search engine is not very good.
New York State Historical Newspaper Collection
Newspapers from different counties in New York. Allows you to search for newspapers by county.
Digital Archives of Green Free Library (PA)
Newspaper database for news in a few different states.
Transcripts of Tyler Reporter, 1855 - 1960 -- Scholar Works
Selected articles from scattered issues of the Tyler Reporter, published in Tyler, Texas, for the years 1855 - 1860
Tyler Reporter, 1861 - 1864 -- Scholar Works
Selected articles from scattered issues of the Tyler Reporter, published in Tyler, Texas, from the years 1861-1864.
Utah Digital Newspapers
Collection of historical newspapers from Utah.
Newspapers of Washington
Collection of newspapers from Washington State.
Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles
Contains 16,000 historical newspaper articles on Wisconsin people and communities.

Microfilm

UT Tyler library offers free microfilm-to-paper as well as microfilm-to-thumb drive. Please ask for assistance. Below are newspapers that may be helpful to you.

State Gazette, 1855 - 1864

Weekly Gazette, 1864 - 1878

Galveston News, 1860 - 1866

Galveston Tri-Weekly News, 1860 - 1861, 1863 - 1872

Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph, 1856 - 1870

Times, 1785 - 2003

Harrison Flag, 1858 - 1861, 1865 - 1868

New York Times, 1857 - 2004

San Antonio Zeitung, 1853 - 1856

San Antonio Herald, 1857 - 1859

Tyler Reporter, 1855, 1859, 1861, 1862, 1864

UT Austin card index to Texas newspapers

During the Great Depression, employees of the Works Progress Administration indexed thirty selected Texas newspapers for the years 1829-1936. Unfortunately, most of the headings are for proper names rather than subjects. Included are:

Abilene Daily Reporter
Alpine Avalanche
Commerce Journal
Dallas Daily News
Dallas Herald
Denison Gazette
Denison Herald
Denison Daily News
El Paso Herald
Free Press (San Antonio)
Ft. Worth Democrat
Ft. Worth Record
Ft. Worth Gazette
Houston Daily Telegraph
Houston Republic
Jacksboro Echo
Northern Standard (Clarksville)
La Prensa (San Antonio)
San Antonio Express
San Antonio Light
San Antonio Evening News
Sherman Courier
Sweetwater Daily Reporter
Telegraph & Texas Register (Houston)
Texas National Register (Washington)
Texas Sentinel (Austin)
Texas State Gazette (Austin)
Whitesboro News
Whitewright Sun
Wichita Daily Times.

This is an old-fashioned card file, held only at the Center for American History on the UT-Austin Campus. You may contact the reference staff to make photocopies of specific cards for you, for a fee.