Major newspapers that require your UR account to access:
Other local newspapers that are available freely online:
The current Richmond Time-Dispatch newspaper was formed in 1903 from the merger of two papers - The Times and The Dispatch. These newspapers went through multiple title changes post-Civil War. Listed below are each of those titles and what is available online:
Richmond Dispatch (1884-1903)
|
The Times (1890-1903)
|
The Daily Dispatch (1850-1884)
|
The Daily Times (1886-1889)
|
Richmond Planet (1883-1938)**
|
The Library of Congress has digitized many other Virginia newspapers on their website.
**Of note is the Richmond Planet, which was founded by 13 former slaves and first published in 1882. By 1904, it had reached a weekly circulation of 4,200 and gained a reputation as a staunch defender of the African-American community and a voice against racial injustice - "daring to hurl thunderbolts of truth into the ranks of the wicked...No stronger race man is known among us." (Description on Chronicling America site, information provided by Library of Virginia).