The Wisconsin Historical Society is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to provide access to historic newspaper published between 1789 and 1963. NEH awards support state projects to select and digitize historically significant titles that are aggregated and permanently maintained by LC at Chronicling America. Through this website, historic newspaper pages are freely available and keyword searchable.

The Society has digitized over 300,000 pages of newspapers providing a diverse geographic, social, and political picture of the state. As Wisconsin newspapers appear in Chronicling America, they will be linked below.

Searching the Newspapers

Searching the text of newspapers is as easy as typing words in the search field, but the website also boasts powerful search tools that can help you search by language, location, or ethnicity--and more! Chronicling America has guides to basic and advanced searching for the newspapers and their content. 

For short tutorials in video format, Using Chronicling America Podcast Series will help you get started, while Chronicling America Search Strategy Videos dig deeper into advanced searching.

Clipping and Saving Content

Clipping, saving, and editing content from Chronicling America is easy and can add visual impact to presentations, papers, and projects. See NDNP Podcast 9 - How Do I Print And Save Images? for step-by-step instructions on clipping, printing, or saving content. Saved files can be opened in many applications and edited.