Civil War Information Topic Guide: Newspapers

Local Newspapers:

African American Newspapers:

• From Accessible Archives - features The Christian Recorder, The Colored American, Doughlass Monthly, Frederick Douglass Paper, Freedom's Journal, The National Era, The North Star, The Provincial Freeman, and The Weekly Advocate
• African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-1998 - features newspapers from across the United States from the Antebellum period, the Civil War Era, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam Era, the Cold War, etc. 

Northern Newspapers:

Southern Newspapers:

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