Full-text of 710 Early American Newspapers covering 1690-1922, as well as African American Newspapers covering 1827-1998.
Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) - first link below - provides searchable full-text of 24 major papers from the late 1800's to the mid-1900's.
The New York Times and Historical Black Newspapers are searched separately using the links below.
Individual links to The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, which are included within the Historical Newspapers database, also appear below.
Another way to locate historic newspapers is to see if the UM Libraries own a print or microfilm subscription. Search for a newspaper by title in WorldCat UMD: