Arkansas Newspaper Online
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - Current and HistoricalNew! offers page images for current issues, 2017-present.
Covers: 1868-. Provides the full text of articles from the Arkansas Gazette (1868-1991), The Arkansas Democrat (1947-1991), the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 2006-current, and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Little Rock edition, 1994-current. -
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-GazetteNew! offers page images for current issues, May 2021-present.
Covers: 2006--. Provides the full text of articles from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 2006-current, as well as other Arkansas Gazette, Democrat, and Democrat-Gazette files. -
America's NewsNew! Offers page images for current issues of many papers.
Covers: varies by title but mostly 1990s-. Offers full text of local, regional, and national U.S. news sources, including the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Includes both printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos. Browse by place of publication or search for keywords in stories. -
NewspaperArchive.comProvides a searchable archive of Southeastern papers, included those from Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Includes Arkansas newspapers from Fayetteville, Blytheville, Benton, Camden, Harrison, Hope, and Gentry.
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19th Century U.S. NewspapersCovers: 1800-1900.A fully-searchable, facsimile archive of hundreds of U.S. papers, including the Arkansas Gazette (1819-1898), Arkansas Democrat (1846-1899), the Arkansas State Gazette (1836-1865), and the Morning Republican (Little Rock, 1867-1875).
Arkansas Newspapers in Print
The Libraries have a large collection of newspapers on microfilm from all regions of the state. Search the library catalog by newspaper title or try our Arkansas Newspaper Search to locate papers by place or time period.
Below are some additional resources for Arkansas papers.
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History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and MoreMAIN, REF, and ARK COLL PN4897.A8 A6 1922.
Gives a county-by-county history of newspapers, editors, editorial stances, and readership. -
Arkansas Union List of NewspapersREF DESK Z6952.A8 A75 1993.
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Arkansas Gazette Index / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette IndexThe online version provides a PDF version of the indexes covering 1880-1893 and parts of 1957 and the decades of the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s.
The printed index covers 1819-1894 and 1960-1993 in and is shelved in REF AI 21 .A75.
The microfilm of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is housed in Multimedia Services at call number F419.L7 A7. -
Arkansas History Commission - Newspaper SearchThe History Commission, in Little Rock, offers a collection of "about 3000 titles published at some 250 different places in Arkansas, 1819 to present."
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Index ArkansasIndexes selected newspaper articles, though primarily an index to periodical articles and book chapters on Arkansas topics.
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Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual HistoryUnder "projects," view dozens of interview transcripts for the oral histories of the Arkansas Gazette and Arkansas Democrat.
Arkansas Newspaper Search
Please note that the search does not currently include all our electronic holdings.
We are working to update our records to support searching both print / microfilm and electronic newspapers.
Looking for Arkansas news from a particular place or time?
We are working to update our records to support searching both print / microfilm and electronic newspapers.
Use our Arkansas Newspaper Search to identify papers by county, city, or time period.
Note that not all location / decade combinations may be available.