What is Elephind.com?
Elephind.com is a free online search engine that provides access to millions of digitized historic newspapers from around the world. It was created and is maintained by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The site allows users to search the full text of newspaper pages dating back hundreds of years. Its database contains newspapers from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries. In total, Elephind provides access to over 9 million newspaper pages.
Some key features of Elephind.com include:
- Ability to search by keywords across the entire newspaper corpus
- Filters by date range, country/state, and newspaper title
- Faceted navigation to drill down based on metadata
- Hit highlighting to see search terms in context
- Persistent links to share searches and access newspaper pages
- Open API for programmatic access
The site offers an easy way for researchers, academics, genealogists, and the general public to explore historical newspapers. It sheds light on major events, local happenings, society and culture from past centuries.