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 October, 2019; 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:

Berkshire County
Lee Public Library

• Berkshire Gleaner
• Valley Gleaner

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

Beverly Public Library

• Beverly Citizen
• Beverly Evening Times
• Saturday Morning Citizen

Boxford

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

Flint Public Library

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

Manchester By The Sea

• Beetle and Wedge
• Cape Ann Advertiser
• Manchester Cricket
• Manchester Cricket and Essex Echo
  
  

Marblehead Public Library (in library only)

• Marblehead Messenger
• Marblehead Reporter
• Reporter

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
• Orange Enterprise and Journal

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

Lincoln Public Library

• Fence Viewer

Stoneham Public Library

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

Tewksbury Public Library

• Scroll 
• Tewksbury Advocate 
• Tewksbury Town Crier 

Norfolk County
Morrill Memorial Library

• Norwood Advertiser
• Advertiser and Review

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

• Cohasset Cottager
• Marshfield Mail
• Mirror
• Scituate Herald
• Scituate Mirror
• Scituate Mirror Summer
• South of Boston
• South of Boston Mirror
• South Shore Mirror
• South Shore News
• South Shore Weekly Mirror

Suffolk County
Revere Public Library

• Revere Journal

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

Center School - Longmeadow

• NewsCenter

College of the Holy Cross - Worcester

• Crusader 

Concord-Carlisle High School - Concord

• The Voice

Eastern Nazarene College - Quincy

• The Campus Camera

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 

Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School - Sudbury

• The Forum

Lowell Textile/Technological Institute - Lowell

• The Text

Malden High School - Malden

• The Blue and Gold

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge

• Tech 
• Tech 

Mouny Holyoke College - South Hadley

• Mount Holyoke News

Newton North High School - Newton

• The Newtonite

Northeastern University - Boston

• Huntington News

Perkins School for the Blind - Watertown

• Lantern

Phillips Academy - Andover

• The Phillipian

Radcliffe College - Cambridge

• ​The Bay Tree - (1925-1926)
• Etc. - (1938-1942)
• Excerpts - (1974)
• From the Forum - (November 1977-June 1978)
• Make a Record for Radcliffe - (1921-1923)
• Radcliffe Culinary Times - (1991-2007)
• Radcliffe Daily - (1927-1932)
• Radcliffe News - (1914-1927)
• Radcliffe News - (1933:Oct.-1958: Oct.Gaps)
• Radcliffe News - (1989-2002)
• Radcliffe News Bulletin - (July-October 1944)
• Radcliffe news presents By-line - (1952-1955)
• Radcliffe News-Daily - (1932-1933)
• Radcliffe re-news - (1947-1961)
• Radcliffe Round-Up - (December 1935 - October 1941)
• Radcliffe Union of Students Newsletter - (March 1968-May 1970)
• Radcliffe: News from the College - (1961-1977)
• Rap-up - (1969)
• RGA Newsletter - (October 1962 - December 1967)
• Seventh Sister - (1977-1984)
• Signature (formerly Radditudes) - (1947-1950)
• The Crucible - (1911)
• The Radcliffe Promoter - (1952-1965)

Roxbury Community College - Boston

• Gateway Gazette

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

University of Massachusetts - Lowell

• The Connector

Wayland High School - Wayland

• Student Press

Wellesley College  - Wellesley

• The Courant
• The Prelude
• The Wellesley News

Wellesley High School - Wellesley

• The Bradford

Westfield State University - Westfield

• Campus Voice

Williams College - Williamstown

• The Williams Record
• Williams Advocate
• Record Advocate

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   

Woburn Public Library Newspaper Indexes

• Grattan Echo Index, 1881-1882
• Guide-Post Index, 1847-1848
• Union Weekly Index, 1884
• Weekly Advertiser Index, 1846
• Woburn Citizen 1935-1936 Newspaper Index
• Woburn City Press Index, 1889-1891
• Woburn Daily City Press Index, 1891-1892
• Woburn Gazette Index, 1844-1846
• Woburn Telegram Index, 1914
• Woburn Townsman Index, 1864
• Woburn Weekly Budget Index, 1857-1863

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Newspapers 1933-1942

• ​Andover - Harold Parker Review (Company 110)
• Assonet - 110Th Co. Daily (Company 110)
• Assonet - 110Th Co. News (Company 110)
• Assonet - 110Th Review (Company 110)
• Assonet - Out-Guard (Company 105)
• Athol - Montachusett News (Company 120)
• BaldwinVille - Axe And Quill (Company 167)
• Becket - Eagle (Company 120)
• Becket - October Mountain Eagle (Company 120)
• Becket - October Mountain Outlook (Company 125)
• Becket - Sawdust (Company 120)
• Brimfield - Screech Owl (Company 136)
• Charlemont - Mohawk Leader (Company 143)
• Charlemont - Tannery Bark (Company 143)
• Chester - Ink Crumbs (Company 113)
• Chester - Plutocrat (Company 113)
• Chester - Quarrytown Crier (Company 113)
• Fitchburg - Camp Sweepings (Company 197)
• Fitchburg - Notown Review (Company 197)
• Hawley - The Hawley Hawk (Company 114)
• Millers Falls - Aristocrat (Company 116)
• New Marlboro - Beaver (Company 196)
• North Adams - Florida Flyer (Company 143)
• North Reading - 167Th Company Times (Company 167)
• North Reading - Company 167 C.C.C. Times (Company 167)
• North Reading - Green Mountain Herald (Company 167)
• Palmer - Camp Courier (Company 173)
• Pittsfield - Esprit De Corps (Company 127)
• Pittsfield - Ghost Of Greylock (Company 107)
• Pittsfield - Greylock Tower (Company 107)
• Pittsfield - Lulu-Weekly Lampost (Company 127)
• Pittsfield - Mt. Grelock Flashes (Company 107)
• Pittsfield - Panorama (Company 107)
• Plymouth - Myles Standish News (Company 103)
• Plymouth - Puritan Gossip (Company 102)
• Savoy - Tannery Eagle (Company 128)
• South Lee - Beartown Call (Company 108)
• South Lee - Beartown Ccc C-All (Company 108)
• Spencer - Among The Pines (Company 198)
• West Granville - Ye Granville Mare (Company 114)
• Windsor Jambs - The Jamboreers (Company 115)

Independent Voices - Alternative Newspapers

• 99TH BUMMER
• Amazon Quarterly
• Black Belt Woman
• Catharsis
• Lavender Vision
• Morning Report
• No More Fun and Games
• Old Mole
• Osawatomie
• Raw Truth, The
• Second Wave: A Magazine for the New Feminism
• Sojourner
• Top secret

Franklin County News Archive Index

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 
• La Gazetta Boston
• La Gazetta Del Massachusetts Boston
• Norton Hometown News Norton
• Norton Shopper Norton

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
• Newton MA Graphic 1886-1949
• Weymouth MA Gazette 1867-1912

Portuguese American Digital Newspaper Collections

• Diario de Noticias 
• O Colonial 
• O Heraldo Portuguez

Digital Commonwealth Newspaper Clippings 

JAMES MICHAEL CURLEY SCRAPBOOKS - clippings

Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts 1822-1971

​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 
• Colored American Magazine
• Congregationalist
• Courier de Boston 
• Crux - 2014-present
• Der Emeth (The Truth)
• Excelsior 
• Fatat Boston 
• Gazzetta del Massachusetts
• Il Moscone
• Independent Chronicle & Boston Patriot 
• Jewish Times 
• Jingo
• Liberator 
• Liberator 
• Liberator
• New England Palladium and Commercial Advertiser 
• Old Countryman
• 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

Chestnut Hill

• Heights - 1919-2010

Chicopee

• Chicopee Weekly Journal

East Cambridge

• Sacred Heart Review - 1888-1918

Fitchburg

• Voice of Industry 
• Raivaaja

Franklin County

• Greenfield Gazette & Courier

Groton

• Turner's Public Spirit

Lenox

• Massachusetts Eagle

Lowell

• Lowell Advertiser 

Marion

• Wanderer

Mattapoisett

• The Wanderer

Milford

• Mammoth

New Bedford

• Whalemen's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript

Plymouth

• Plymouth Cordage News

Provincetown

• The Advocate Live

Quincy

• Quincy Sun

Salem

• Essex Register
• Salem Register

Wellesley

• Wellesley Townsman

Wendell

• Wendell Post 

Weymouth

• Weymouth Gazette

Wilmington

• Wilmington Town Crier

Winchester

• Winchester Star

Worcester​

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