Home » Great Lakes States Directory » Michigan Historical Periodicals

Michigan Historic Newspapers – Michigan Historical Collections

Michigan Historic Newspapers - Michigan Historical Collections

Michigan historic newspapers free online. Michigan historical collections free. Old historical journals, newspapers and periodicals.

Michigan Historical Collections

Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections – All Volumes

Table of Contents Vols 1-31 – Michigan Historical Collections

Vols. 1-40 (1874-1929)
Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission

Publication History:

1876-1886 (Volumes 1- 9): Pioneer Collections. Lansing : Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan.
1886-1912 (Volumes 10-38): Historical Collections. Lansing : Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society.
1915 and 1929 (Volumes 39 and 40): Michigan Historical Collections. Lansing : Michigan Historical Commission.

In fact this periodical never had the title Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, but that name is commonly used now. The first seven volumes are made up mainly of pioneer reminiscences, biographical sketches and memorials, and proceedings of local pioneer societies. In 1886 the Collections began to publish a large body of documents.

Volumes 41 and 42 (at the first link) contain indexes to the first 30 volumes. A complete “Table of Contents” for volumes 1 through 31 can be found at the second link, in the Bibliography of American Historical Societies, page 588.

See the Menu at the top of every page for Directories of Free Online Fiction and NonFiction Books, Magazines, and more, on 400 pages like this at Century Past

Michigan History Magazine

Vols 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 (1917-1922)
Michigan Historical Commission and the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society

The magazine was a quarterly. Each of the volumes contains a table of contents at the front and an index in back covering all four numbers within. There is a Vol 3 at this link, which was mistakenly entitled “Michigan History” in the online archive. In fact it is Vol 3 of the Collection at the entry above.

Michigan Historical Review 1986-2020

You will need a free log-in to JSTOR to access these issues.

Collections of Michigan Historic Newspapers

Michigan Digital Newspaper Portal – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Central Michigan University Library

Links to many online Michigan newspapers, at both paid and free sites.

The Ancestor Hunt – United States Online Historical Newspaper Links – Michigan

Ancestor Hunt

The Ancestor Hunt is a very large site with a page of newspaper links for each U.S. state. The Michigan page has links to many newspapers, organized by county and city.

See our free historical novels

Chronicling America: Michigan Newspapers – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Library of Congress
Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers

This site at the Library of Congress has a very large collection of historic newspapers from every state in the U.S. In addition to the digitized newspapers, they provide information about other historic newspapers not in their digitized collection. For that database, use the tab “US Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present”.

Historical U.S. Newspapers Online: Michigan

LibGuides
Bowling Green State University Libraries

This page of BGSU’s LibGuide (Library Research Guide) has links to free online newspaper collections for all states beginning with M. Scroll down for the Michigan collection.

Michigan Historic Newspapers

Alpena Weekly Argus

Weekly. Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 29, 1871) -Vol. 22, no. 25 (Jan. 4, 1893)
Alpena, Alpena Co.

Visit the Century Past collection of links to American newspaper archives

The Big Rapids Current

Weekly. Feb 6, 1879 – Dec 23, 1885. Incomplete series
Big Rapids, Mecosta Co.

The Cass County Republican

Weekly. May 6, 1858 – Apr 14, 1864, with a few scattered issues until Aug 1880
Dowagiac, Cass Co.

See our directory of Great Lakes books & articles on this site

Constantine Republican – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Weekly. July 13, 1836 – Aug 1, 1838
Constantine, St. Joseph Co.

The Copper Country Evening News

Daily. Jan 4, 1896 – July 30, 1898
Calumet, Houghton Co.

Detroit Gazette

Weekly, August 1, 1817 to March 20, 1828
Detroit, Wayne Co.

East Saginaw Courier

Weekly. Aug 4, 1859 – Dec 6, 1866. Also an issue of June 16, 1859
East Saginaw, Saginaw Co.

The Genesee Whig

Weekly. 1850 to January 1854
Flint, Genesee Co.

See our journalism books pdf free download

Grand River Times

Weekly, July 1851- Oct 1857
Grand Haven, Ottawa Co.

Marshall Statesman – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Weekly. July 30 1856 – August 17, 1859
Marshall, Calhoun Co.

Michigan State Journal

Weekly. April 1841 – July 1845
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

The Michigan Tribune

Weekly. Oct 20, 1871 – Dec 31, 1874
Battle Creek, Calhoun Co.

The Owosso Times

Weekly. Mar 31, 1882 – Feb 19, 1897
Owosso, Shiawassee Co.

The Signal of Liberty – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Weekly, April, 1841 – Feb 5, 1848
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

The Michigan History Division placed a marker on the site of the First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor with this information:

“Antislavery Society: The founding meeting of the Michigan Antislavery Society was held in the First Presbyterian Church, located on this site [southwest corner E. Huron and Division Streets], on November 10, 1836. Delegates from six counties elected officers and adopted fourteen resolutions denouncing slavery. This convention led to the establishment in Jackson in 1839 of the American Freeman, the state’s first antislavery newspaper and its successor, Ann Arbor’s Signal of Liberty, in 1841.”

See the directory of free online magazines on this site

South Haven Sentinel

Weekly. Jan 18, 1868 – Feb 7, 1874; Feb 15, 1879 – Feb 7, 1903 (some years missing)
South Haven, Van Buren Co.

The True Northerner – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Weekly. Jan 14, 1858 – Feb 8, 1901
Paw Paw, Van Buren Co.

The Weekly Michigan Argus

Weekly. Jan 5, 1855 – Jun 29, 1860
Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co.

Ypsilanti Sentinel – Michigan Historic Newspapers

Weekly. 1843- Apr 1848
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Scroll to Top