Early American Newspapers (Readex)

The library has two series of Early American Newspapers. We also have access to several Early Newspapers on the Web, as well as full page images of the New York Times (1851-2003) and the Times of London (1785-1985). To access the New York Times or the Times of London, go to the WKU Libraries' Web-accessible Databases page.

• The Early American Newspapers (Readex) consist of 55 boxes (or reels) containing 35 millimeter reel-to-reel microfilm. These boxes are stored in cabinet 5, drawer 5, of the microform collection, housed on Helm 2nd floor.The microform area has 4 microform reader-printers that can accomodate both reel-to-reel microfilm and 4" x 6" microfiche, as well as a scanner that can create jpg and tiff images.
• Early American Newspapers on Microcard from the American Antiquarian Society) (Readex Microprint Corporation) These are located in the 13 blue boxes on the wooden shelves next to the newspaper rack on Helm 2nd floor.

Early Newspapers On the Web

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Contains more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.

Early American Newspapers from Readex

Newspapers, locales, and dates covered in the Early American Newspaper microfilm collection are as follows:

(1) American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia, PA). December 22, 1719 to May 22, 1746...3 reels.

(2) Connecticut Courant (Hartford, CT). October 29, 1764 to December 26, 1820...7 reels.

(3) Gazette of the United States (New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA). April 15, 1789 to February 18, 1804...10 reels.

(4) Georgia Gazette (Savannah, GA). 1763 to 1770...1 reel.

(5) Georgia Gazette (Savannah, GA). January 5, 1798 to December 26, 1799...1 reel.

(6) Georgia Gazette (Savannah, GA). January 2, 1800 to November 25, 1802...1 reel.

(7) Green Mountain Patriot (Peacham, VT). February 23, 1798 to June 27, 1810...2 reels.

(8) National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.). October 31, 1800 to December 31, 1812...5 reels.

(9) New York Gazette, revived in the Weekly Post Boy (New York, NY). December 31, 1750 to December 25, 1752...1 reel.

(10) New York Weekly Journal (New York, NY). October 5, 1733 to March 18, 1751...2 reels.

(11) Newport Mercury (Newport, RI). June 19, 1758 to December 30, 1820...8 reels.

(12) Review (Nashville, TN). 1809 to 1811, and Western Pilot (Rogersville, TN). 1815...1 reel.

(13) Rhode Island Gazette (Newport, RI). 1732 to 1733, and Gazette Francoise (Newport, RI). 1780 to 1781, and Newport Herald (Newport, RI). 1787 to 1791...1 reel.

(14) Sun (Pittsfield, MA). September 16, 1800 to December 27, 1820...3 reels.

(15) Tennessee Herald (Shelbyville, TN). 1817 to 1819, and Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN). 1818, and Tennessee Weekly Chronicle (Clarksville, TN). 1819...1 reel.

(16) Town Gazette (Clarksville, TN). 1819, and Clarksville Gazette (Clarksville, TN). 1819 to 1820...1 reel.

(17) Washington Federalist (Georgetown, D.C.). September 25, 1800 to June 20, 1809...5 reels.

(18) Western Express (Carthage, TN). 1808, and Carthage Gazette (Carthage, TN). 1808 to 1817...1 reel.

(19) South Carolina Miscellaneous Titles (South Carolina). 1759 to 1820...1 reel. These include the following:

---(A) South-Carolina Weekly Gazette (Charleston, S.C). 1759-1760.

---(B) Chronicle of Liberty (Charleston, S.C.). 1783.

---(C) South-Carolina Weekly Advertiser (Charleston, S.C.). 1783.

---(D) South Carolina Independant Gazette (Georgetown, S.C.). 1791-1796.

---(E) South Carolina Gazette (Columbia, S.C.). 1792-1793.

---(F) Columbia Gazette (Columbia, S.C.). 1794.

---(G) Daily Evening Gazette (Charleston, S.C.). 1795.

---(H) Telegraphe (Charleston, S.C.). 1795.

---(I) Evening Courier (Charleston, S.C.). 1798.

---(J) Echo De Sud (Charleston, S.C.). 1801.

---(K) Strength of the People (Charleston, S.C.). 1809-1810.

---(L) Anti-Monarchist (Edgefield, S.C.). 1811-1815.

---(M) Winyaw Intelligencer (Georgetown, S.C.). 1817-1820.

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Early American Newspapers on Microcard
from the American Antiquarian Society

Newspapers, locales, and dates covered in the Early American Newspapers on Microcard are as follows:

(1) Gazette of the United States (New York) 1789 - 1790 (Philadelphia) 1790 - 1804

(2) Massachusetts Mercury (Boston) 1793 - 1803

(3) New - England Palladium (Boston) 1803 - 1820

(4) New - York Evening Post (New York) 1801 - 1820

(5) Boston Evening - Post (Boston) 1735 - 1775

(6) New - York Weekly Journal (New York) 1733 - 1751

(7) Boston Evening Post (Boston) 1781 - 1784

(8) American Herald (Boston) 1784 - 1788

(9) American Herald (Worchester) 1788 - 1789

(10) Boston News - Letter (Boston) 1704 - 1776

(11) Massachusetts Centinel (Boston ?) 1784 - 1790

(12) Columbian Centinel (?) 1790 - 1820

(13) New - York Gazette (Weyman's) (New York ?) 1759 - 1767

(14) Pennsylvania Evening Post (?) 1775 - 1784

The Online Index to the Microform Collections was created by Alan Logsdon with Haiwang Yuan.