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HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

This page contains links to our inventory of historic newspapers and magazines and pictures of some featured items. Our inventory includes Revolutionary War newspapers, Founding Period newspapers, War of 1812 newspapers, Civil War newspapers and many newspapers concerning United States Presidents and political campaigns. We also have many illustrated newspapers, including Harper's Weekly and Leslie's, which are especially strong in the Civil War period.


Illustrative Offerings

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1782 British Parliament Votes To End War With America,
Effectively Granting Independence After Battle of Yorktown
Historic Newspaper Has Full Debate and Votes

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Amazing 1777 February and March The Scots Magazine includes

British Rebuttal to Declaration of Independence!

George Washington's Report To Congress on Important Trenton Victory

General Howe's Peace Overture to Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Reply

Full Text of America's First National Government, The Articles of Confederation

British Parliament Debate on War Measures Against Americans

1776 Letter of Captain James Cook Explaining How He Prevented Scurvy In Around the World Voyage


1788 South Carolina Ratifies United States Constitution but State Convention Attaches States Rights Concerns That Persist Through Civil War

Historic Newspaper also includes General Rufus Putnam And The Ohio Company, John Trumbull and Cincinnati Society, Samuel Storrs of Mansfield Seeks Runaway

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Death of George Washington and Boston Testimonials

Black Bordered January 1800 Russell's Gazette Full of Honors for George Washington


Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr Tie Vote for Presidency

1801 Newspaper Reports Vote and Urges House of Representatives to Pick Aaron Burr

"The federal part of that body will make great exertions in favor of Mr. Burr, as being the smallest of the two great evils"


1798 Newspaper Reports Napoleon Invasion of Egypt

Lord Nelson Destroys French Fleet

Congressman Matthew Lyon in Prison Under Sedition Act

 


Battle of Waterloo and Abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte

1815 Original British and French Reports of Historic Battle


Abraham Lincoln Assassination Newspaper

General Hancock's Plea To Blacks To Find John Wilkes Booth

Extensive Coverage of Funeral Procession in New York City

General Sherman Excoriated by New York Herald

Pursuit of Assassins and Civil War News


1843 Volume of Brother Jonathan Newspaper with Charles Dickens Novel Martin Chuzzlewit

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Klu Klux Klan Newspapers

Two Invisible Empire Newspapers from the 1970s