There are two different strategies for working with historical newspapers:

Locating articles on specific topics

For this technique you will need:

• a digital version of a paper
  see these lists of historical newspapers available to campus or freely available to all
• an index to a specific paper
• the patience to browse through a paper in a specific time period.

Locating entire papers from specific places or time periods

For this technique you will need:

• to search OneSearch for a place and keyword "newspaper" together
  example: chicago newspapers
• to consult directories or catalogs of papers.
  Once you identify papers of interest, you can look them up under journal title in OneSearch or request them on Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad), You can then browse them for local news and events.

The following resources are listed in roughly chronological order, from oldest to most recent.