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Online Resources

• Arkansas Online Historical Newspapers
• Arkansas Newspapers ($)
• Arkansas Online Historical Newspapers Summary - The Ancestor Hunt
• Arkansas Newspapers
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
• GenealogyBank.com, Arkansas Newspaper Archives (1819 - 1999) ($)
• NewsLink | Newspapers | U.S. | Arkansas
• Newspaper Abstracts - Arkansas
• NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Arkansas ($)
• Newspapers.com - Historical Newspapers in Arkansas ($)
• OnlineNewspapers.com - Arkansas

Libraries and Archives

The best collection of Arkansas newspapers is at the Arkansas History Commission. The following guides can help you locate and search Arkansas newspapers:

Allsopp, Fred W. History of the Arkansas Press for a Hundred Years and More. 1922. Reprint. Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1978. FHL book 976.7 B3a.

Union List of Arkansas Newspapers, 1819-1942. Little Rock, Arkansas: Historical Records Survey, 1942. FHL book 976.7 B3h; FHL film 897366 item 2 and FHL fiche 6051358.

Newspaper Directory

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present is a national directory from the Library of Congress of over 140,000 newspaper titles. The directory provides a list of libraries from around the country that have the newspapers in their collections.

Digital Issues Online

NewspaperArchive ($) has a collection of digitized Arkansas newspapers online. This database is sometimes free at libraries. It may be under the name Access NewspaperArchive.

Indexes

Morgan, James Logan. Arkansas Newspaper Index, 1819-1845: Index to Obituaries, Biographical and Probate and Chancery Notices. Newport, Arkansas: Morgan Books, 1981. FHL book 976.7 B32m.

Websites

• Ancestry.com ($)
• Ancestor Hunt 

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