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Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.

Site has primary sources, newspaper archives, reference libraries and narrated tours of historic sites.

Great lesson for WWII in US History class - set the context of Munich appeasement and fear of world war, then tell the story of the broadcast and the panic. Students job? - find out if reports of the panic were valid - how would you check? End with the media fight between radio and newspapers. What are implications for the internet? Related material can also be found at the National Archives collection of letters written to the FCC after the broadcast (https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/fall/war-of-worlds.html). In this National Archive articles it states that "Of the 1,770 people who wrote to the main CBS station about the broadcast, 1,086 were complimentary. In addition, 91 percent of the letters received by the Mercury Theatre staff were positive. And roughly 40 percent of the letters sent to the FCC were supportive of the broadcast."

Perfect for Halloween - nothing is scarier than teaching something and then founding out later that you really weren't as accurate as you thought you were.

"Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War is a fully searchable digitized collection of 144,000 contemporary newspaper clippings that report on the events of the Second World War as that great conflict unfolded." Awesome!

'This website provides an introduction to digital collections designed for education. They are mainly aimed at university students, researchers and librarians but many of the online archives are open to anyone. The collections cover areas such as history, social sciences, or science and engineering and include, for example, journals, newspapers and images.'

Search historic British newspapers

The Newseum displays daily newspaper front pages in their original, unedited form.

A searchable database of Australian newspapers from 1802 - 1954.

Also includes links to pictures and photos, diaries and letters, maps and audio.

Trove: Find and get Australian resources. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more.

How cool! The New York Times is putting historical issues of their paper online. They are still in the process of digitising them, but they already have the Civil War and some early C20th stuff on there.

NY Times has digitally archived images of every issue from 1851 to 1922.

Full access requires a home delivery subscription

New York Times Archive that allows you to browse back through many historical events since 1800's.

New York Public Library's free digitized archives.

" The 1896 presidential election was one of the most exciting and complicated in U.S. history. This website provides an introduction to one aspect of the campaign: the hundreds of political cartoons published in newspapers around the country. Most of these cartoons have been buried in archival microfilms, where students can't reach them. They offer a window into political structures and issues, society, and culture in the United States, just before the turn of the last century." A great resource on the topic.

The political cartoons in this exhibit, drawn by renowned cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman, illustrate the campaign process from the candidate's decision to run for office to the ultimate outcome of the election. Although many political procedures have changed, these cartoons show that the political process has remained remarkably consistent; Berryman's cartoons from the early 20th century remain relevant today. Most of these cartoons appeared on the front page of Washington newspapers from 1898 through 1948. They are part of a collection of nearly 2,400 pen-and-ink drawings by Berryman.

NYTimes archive of Al Jaffee's "fold-ins" for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present. An interesting form of media to explore!

Well-organised and searchable database of American newspapers. The time frame and states available are somewhat limited.

Searchable archive of papers from across the United States, 1860 - 1922

Well-organised portal to primary sources on many aspects of American history. Thanks Yale University Library. You rock.