Massachusetts Online Historical Newspapers

There are around 4,500 newspapers that have been published in the Bay State - certainly not all of them are searchable online. But there are quite a few that are indeed available. So go for it - find articles about the events, history, and people that capture the stories of Massachusetts. 

Please note that I have not always entered the dates that are included in the collections, as I suspect they will change as more items are digitized. Also I suspect that some of these links may change over time - so if there is a dead link - please use your favorite search engine to find their new location. 

(Updated November, 2018; recently added links are in BOLD)

Statewide Collections:

Google News Archive

• Boston - Post-Gazette
• Boston - Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston - Boston Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston - Boston Evening Transcript
• Boston - The Real Paper
• Boston - Daily Evening Transcript
• Boston - The Boston Phoenix
• Edgartown - Vineyard Gazette
• Fall River - L'Echo du Canada
• Fall River - ​L'Independant
• Harvard - Other Stand
• Haverhill - Haverhill Museum
• Haverhill - Merrimack Intelligencer
• Holyoke - ​La Justice
• Lowell - ​L'Etoile
• New Bedford - New Bedford Mercury
• New Bedford - New Bedford Evening Journal
• Newton - Computer World
• Norton - The Hometown News
• Southbridge - The Southbridge Journal
• Springfield - Le Citoyen Franco-Americain
• Turner Falls - The Turners Falls Reporter
• Worcester - L'Etendard National
• Worcester - ​Le Travailleur 
• Worchester F - L'Opinion Publique

County and Library Collections:

Essex County
Amesbury Public Library

• Amesbury Advocate
• Amesbury and Salisbury Villager
• Amesbury Daily
• Amesbury Daily News
• Amesbury Hospital Courier
• Amesbury News
• Amesbury Times
• City Directory
• Essex Transcript
• Leader
• Merrimac Valley Times
• Merrimar Valley Echo
• Morning Courier
• River Side Press
• Town Records
• Town Work Valuation Lists
• Transcript
• Valuation Lists
• Village Transcript
• Villager
• Weekly News

Flint Public Library

• Tri Town Transcript
• US News and World Report
• Tri Town Transcript and Pennysaver
• Pennysaver
  
  

Newburyport Public Library

• American Signal
• Boston Courier
• Boston Daily Bee
• Boston Gazette
• Comet
• Daily American Signal
• Daily Bee
• Daily Herald
• Essex Journal
• Essex Journal And Merimack Packet
• Essex Journal And Merrimack Packet
• Essex Journal And New Hampshire Packet
• Essex Journal And The Massachusetts And New Hampshire
• Essex Journal Or New Hampshire Packet
• Essex Journal Or The New Hampshire Packet
• Herald
• Herald Of The United States
• Herald Office
• Herald Office
• Impartial Herald
• Independent Chronicle And Boston
• Independent Whig
• Massachusetts Spy Or Worcester Gazette
• Morning Star
• New York Morning Post
• Newburyport Daily Herald
• Newburyport Daily News
• Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald
• Newburyport Herald
• Newburyport Herald And Commercial Gazette
• Newburyport Herald And Country Gazette
• Newburyport Herald Commercial And Country Gazette
• Pennsylvania Packet And Daily Advertiser
• Political Gazette
• Richmond Whig
• Salem Gazette
• Statesman
• Sun
• Thomas Massachusetts Spy Or Worcester Gazett

​Franklin County
Montague Public Library Digital Archives

• The Turners Falls Reporter
• Turners Falls Reporter
• Turners Falls Herald 

Wheeler Memorial Library

• Orange Journal
• Orange Enterprise
• Enterprise and Journal
• Millers Falls News

Hampden County
Wilbraham Public Library

• Wilbraham Hampden Times
• Times

Middlesex County
Hudson Public Library

• Hudson Daily Sun
• Hudson News Enterprise
• News Enterprise

J.V. Fletcher Library

• Eagle
• Westford Eagle
• Rustic

Stoneham Public Library

• Stoneham Independent
• Independent
• Holiday Independent
• Stoneham Daily Independent

Tewksbury Public Library

• Scroll 
• Tewksbury Advocate 
• Tewksbury Town Crier 

Norfolk County
Holbrook Public Library

• Holbrook Sun

Sharon Public Library

• Sharon Advocate
• Sharon Enterprise
• Sharon Item
• Sharon Ozone
• Sharon Sentinel
• Sharon Transcript
• The Sharon Advocate

Turner Free Library Digital Archive

• Randolph Herald
• Randolph Mariner

Plymouth County
Scituate Town Library

• Scituate Mirror
• Scituate Mirror Summer
• South Shore Mirror
• South Shore Weekly Mirror

Worcester County
Leominster Public Library

• Leominster Daily Enterprise
• Leominster Enterprise
• Enterprise

Andover Memorial Hall Library Historical Newspaper Collection (1853–1925)

• Andover Advertiser
• Andover Townsman
• Lawrence American

Barnstable County Newspapers

• Barnstable Patriot
• Hyannis Patriot
• Sandwich Observer

Belmont Public Library Historical Newspapers

• Belmont Bulletin Mar. 8, 1890 – Feb. 26, 1898
• Belmont Tribune Nov.14, 1902 – Apr. 14, 1916
• Belmont Courier Jan. 2, 1889 – Dec. 1, 1917
• Belmont Patriot Jan. 5, 1918 – Dec. 28, 1918
• Belmont Citizen Mar. 29, 1919 – Mar. 31, 1988
• Belmont Herald Jan. 5, 1945 – April 1, 1988
• Belmont Citizen Herald April 7, 1988 – 2015

Brookline Public Library Newspapers - (index only)

• Brookline Chronicle
• Brookline Chronicle-Citizen
• Brookline Citizen (1980s-1990s)
• Brookline Citizen (1930s-1950s)
• Brookline Citizen Journal
• Brookline Independent
• Brookline Journal
• Brookline Journal-News
• Brookline News (1880s)
• Brookline News (1930s)
• Brookline Press
• Brookline Spy
• Brookline Standard
• Brookline Suburban
• Brookline TAB
• Brookline Townsman
• Brookline Transcript
• Brookline Tribune
• Boston Globe
• Boston Herald-Traveler
• Boston Herald
• Brookline Magazine
• Our Town Brookline

Cambridge Public Library - Historic Cambridge Newspaper Collection

• Cambridge Chronicle
• Cambridge Press
• Cambridge Sentinel
• Cambridge Tribune

Cohassett Library

• Cohasset Citizen
• Cohasset Cottager
• Cohasset Mariner

Concord Free Public Library - Cambridge Newspapers Up To the Civil War

• Middlesex Gazette May 4, 1816 - Sep. 1, 1821
• Middlesex Observer June 22, 1822 - June 14, 1823
• Concord Gazette & Middlesex Yeoman Nov. 29, 1823 - Feb. 25, 1826
• Yeoman’s Gazette Mar. 4, 1826 - Jul. 18, 1840
• The Republican July 24, 1840 - Aug. 6, 1841
• Concord Freeman Dec. 11, 1834 - Mar. 19, 1847
• The Sunbeam Sept. 27, 1839 - Nov. 15, 1839
• Middlesex Freeman Feb. 2, 1851 - Jul. 2, 1852
• The Monitor April 19, 1862 - June 21, 1862

Eldredge Public Library Chatham and Cape Cod Collection

• Chatham Monitor
• The Chatham Shopper News
• The Chatham News 
• Lower Cape Cod Chronicle
• Cape Cod Chronicle

Student Collections:

Amherst College - Amherst

• The Student

Babson College - Wellesley

• Babson Free Press (Fall 1970 - 2015)
• Babson Globe News (Fall 1957 - Spring 1961)
• Babson Liberated Press (Fall 1969 - Spring 1970)
• The Exec (Fall 1961 - Spring 1965)
• The Executive (Fall 1965 - May 1969)

Bentley University - Waltham

• Vanguard

Bostin Latin School - Boston

• Argo
• Register

Boston College - Boston

• 885

• AHANA collage

• Boston Pilot (1838-1857)

• C21 Resources
• Collage

• Inscape
• Irish Literary Supplement

• Jesuit, or, Catholic sentinel (1829-1831)
• Jesuit, or, Catholic sentinel (1834) 
• Literary and Catholic Sentinel (1835)
• Pilot
• The Heights
• The Sacred Heart Review
• The Sisyphus Papers
• The Stylus

• United States Catholic Intelligencer (1831-1833)

Boston University - Boston

• BU Today

Brandeis University - Waltham

• Justice
• Brandeis Hoot

Bridgewater State Normal School - Bridgewater

• The Normal Offering

Bridgewater State University - Bridgewater

• Comment

Cape Cod Community College

• Beacon
• Main Sheet

College of the Holy Cross - Worcester

• Crusader 

Emmanuel College - Boston

• Focus

Fitchburg State University - Fitchburg

• College Courier
• Cycle
• Kampus Vue
• Point
• Rhetoric
• State Norma-lite
• Th'cycle
• Strobe
• Gavel
• Hickory Stick
• The Normal Record
• Shaft
• Stick
• Twig

Framingham State University - Framingham

• The Gatepost 

Gordon College - Wenham

• Tartan

Harvard University - Cambridge

• Harvard Crimson 
• Harvard Echo
• Harvard Weekly Calendar
• The Crimson 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge

• Tech 

Mouny Holyoke College - South Hadley

• Mount Holyoke News

Northeastern University - Boston

• Huntington News

Perkins School for the Blind - Watertown

• Lantern

Phillips Academy - Andover

• The Phillipian

Smith College - Northampton

• Smith Alumnae Quarterly digital archive
• Smith College Monthly
• Sophian

Springfield College - Springfield

• Nobody's Business

• The Springfield Student

Tufts University - Medford

• Tufts Daily

University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Aggie Life 
• College Monthly 
• College Signal 
• Friday War Cry
• Massachusetts Collegian 
• Razor Blade 
• The Plague 

University of Massachusetts - Boston 

• Boston Mass Media
• Mass Media
• UMB News

Wellesley College  - Wellesley

• The Courant
• The Prelude
• The Wellesley News

Westfield State University - Westfield

• Campus Voice

Williams College - Williamstown

• The Williams Record

Worcester Polythechnic Institute - Worcester

• Newspeak
• The Tech News
• The WTI

Miscellaneous Collections:

Annotated Newspapers of Harbottle Dorr, Jr. 

• Boston Chronicle
• Boston Evening-Post and supplements
• Boston Gazette, and Country Journal and supplements
• Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser
• Boston Weekly News-Letter
• Continental Journal and Weekly Advertiser
• Essex Gazette
• Massachusetts Gazette and supplements
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston News-Letter
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter
• Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser
• New-England Chronicle
• New-England Chronicle or, the Essex Gazette   

Greater Lowell Newspaper Archive

• Lowell Courier
• Lowell Daily Courier
• Lowell Daily Journal and Courier
• Lowell Morning Courier
• Lowell Sun

Small Town Papers

• The Ashfield News 
• The Brookfield Citizen 
• Post-Gazette 
• Vineyard Gazette 

Old Fulton Postcards

• Andover MA Advertiser 1866-1875
• Boston MA Christian Science Monitor 1908-1925 
• Boston MA Liberator 1831-1862 
• Boston MA Weekly Messenger 1811-1813
• Boston MA Weekly Messenger 1811-18141811-1814
• Cambridge MA Chronicle 1847-1923
• Greenfield MA Daily Recorder 1921-1934 
• Greenfield MA Franklyn Democrat 1827-1859
• Greenfield MA Franklyn Herald 1812-1827 
• Greenfield MA Gazette 1792-1920
• Greenfield MA Recorder 1921-2015
• Lawrence MA American 1879-1884
• Lawrence MA American 1870-71, 1884-86, 1907
• Lowell Mass Courier 1837-1893

Portuguese American Digital Newspaper Collections

• Diario de Noticias 
• O Colonial 
• O Heraldo Portuguez

Digital Commonwealth Newspaper Clippings 

JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY SCRAPBOOKS - clippings

​The Olden Times - Massachusetts

Newspaper Abstracts - Massachusetts

Other Free Sites:

Belchertown

• Sentinel 

Berkshire

• Berkshire Eagle Archive search

Boston

• American Traveller
• Amerikas Westnesis 
• Banner of the Church
• Avatar ​
• Boston Gazette and Country Journal
• Boston Globe Archives 
• Boston Irish Reporter
• Boston Pilot 
• Catharsis
• Colored American Magazine
• Congregationalist
• Courier de Boston 
• Crux - 2014-present
• Der Emeth (The Truth)
• Excelsior 
• Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot 
• Jewish Times 
• Jingo
• Liberator 
• Liberator 
• Liberator
• New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser 
• Old Countryman
• Osawatomie 
• Publick Occurences
• Remonstrance Against Woman Suffrage
• Repertory 
• Repertory and General Advertiser     
• Sheet Anchor
• Sheet Anchor
• The Gleaner
• The Repertory
• The Watchman
• Worker 

Braintree

• The Pilot - 2003-present

Cambridge

• Lavender Vision
• No More Fun and Games
• Old Mole
• Second Wave: A Magazine for the New Feminism
• Sojourner
• The Raw Truth
• Top secret

Chestnut Hill

• Heights - 1919-2010

Chicopee

• 99TH BUMMER
• Chicopee Weekly Journal

East Cambridge

• Sacred Heart Review - 1888-1918

Fitchburg

• Voice of Industry 

Franklin County

• Greenfield Gazette & Courier

Groton

• Morning Report
• Turner's Public Spirit

Lenox

• Massachusetts Eagle

Lowell

• Lowell Advertiser 

Marion

• Wanderer

Mattapoisett

• The Wanderer

Medford

• Black Belt Woman

Milford

• Mammoth

New Bedford

• Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript

Newton

• 885 - 1952-1973

Plymouth

• Plymouth Cordage News

Provincetown

• The Advocate Live

Quincy

• Quincy Sun

Salem

• Essex Register
• Salem Register

Wellesley

• Wellesley Townsman

West Somerville

• Amazon Quarterly

Wendell

• Wendell Post 

Weymouth

• Weymouth Gazette

Wilmington

• Wilmington Town Crier

Winchester

• Winchester Star

Woburn

• Woburn Weekly Budget

Worcester​

• Crusader - 1925-1989
• The Catholic Free Press - 2011-present
• Scandinavia 
• Svea