Maryville Public Library is pleased to announce we’ve contracted with ProQuest’s Newspapers.com to offer full access to digitized Missouri newspapers dating from the mid 1800s to the mid 1900s, including Nodaway County and Maryville newspapers going back to 1869. Users can search by keywords or names to find specific articles or family history content.

For more current full-text newspaper content, MPL also offers NewsBank, a full-text newspaper database that includes Maryville Forum articles from 2001 on, as well as full keyword-searchable content from newspapers and news magazines all over the United States.

Have an MPL card? Log in here with your card number and phone number to use these resources from home. (Need an MPL card? Here’s how to get one. )

Using these resource in the library? Click below for instant access.

Other sources for newspaper archives:

Missouri Digital Newspaper Project also offers images of historical Missouri newspapers, as provided by the State Historical Society of Missouri.

AFRO Archives provides a special collection of scanned historic black American newspapers with the earliest issues dating back to 1902.

Looking for genealogy or family history resources? Click below to view or download a list of local newspapers on microfilm, as well as other Nodaway County Genealogy resources.