Historic newspapers · Alabama

Alabama historic newspapers: 30,542 free digitised pages

Name: Alabama historic newspapers (Chronicling America)
Creator: Library of Congress
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Everything below is what the Library of Congress holds online for Alabama in Chronicling America, counted on 2026-10-06. The pages are free to read and searchable by name; an obituary or a marriage notice here is often the only record of a date before civil registration.

Titles with the most digitised pages

Newspaper	Years	Pages online
The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)	1885–1982	9,577
The Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)	1902–1950	8,413
Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)	1847–1886	8,073
The Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)	1897–1902	1,631
Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, Ala.)	1879–1894	695
Birmingham State Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)	1895–1897	571
Birmingham Age-Herald (Birmingham, Ala.)	1890–1895	424
Mobile Register and Journal (Mobile, Ala.)	1841–1849	270
The Petal Paper (Petal, Miss.)		261
The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.)	1862–1864	229

Counties

Montgomery 17,652 pages
Jefferson 11,186 pages
Dallas 8,348 pages
Shelby 8,218 pages
Spalding 8,115 pages
Bibb 8,073 pages
De Soto 8,073 pages
Fulton 8,073 pages
Grenada 8,073 pages
Hinds 8,073 pages

Cities

Montgomery 17,652 pages
Birmingham 11,186 pages
Selma 8,348 pages
Memphis 8,218 pages
Griffin 8,115 pages
Atlanta 8,073 pages
Grenada 8,073 pages
Hernando 8,073 pages
Jackson 8,073 pages
Macon 8,073 pages

By decade

1820 to 1829 1 pages
1830 to 1839 52 pages
1840 to 1849 401 pages
1850 to 1859 872 pages
1860 to 1869 2,587 pages
1870 to 1879 3,120 pages
1880 to 1889 2,212 pages
1890 to 1899 2,029 pages
1900 to 1909 6,619 pages
1910 to 1919 7,428 pages
1920 to 1929 4,967 pages
1930 to 1939 4 pages
1940 to 1949 24 pages
1950 to 1959 177 pages
1960 to 1969 92 pages

Languages

English 30,522 pages
German 20 pages

Ethnic press: African American, German

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