American newspapers · 1770–1810
Watch news travel through early American newspapers.
48,148 stories were printed in two or more papers of one surviving archive. Explore them as a sky, where the further a star is, the earlier the story; or follow one of them from paper to paper.
Look into the sky
Every story as a star. Travel through time, search for a word, and see which news came back every season.
Open the telescope → FollowFollow one story
Watch a report travel from paper to paper, with the printed passages and the page scans beside it.
Open a story → UnderstandHow do we know?
What was read and checked by hand, what a computer matched, and what this archive cannot show.
How it works →Start with a story
A few places where the archive speaks clearly.
These are the newspapers that survive in one digitised collection, not everything that was printed. Where few papers survive, there are few stories; a gap is a gap in the archive, not proof of silence. What this cannot tell you