The NewspaperARCHIVE contains 35 million pages of historic newspapers dating from 1753-2006 online. In the past month it has launched a series of free specialized collections pulled from the archive of digital newspaper images.

The topics that have been chosen lend themselves to a broad public interest, from historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln to current topics such as September 11.

You can tell from the topics that most of the newspapers indexed are from the United States, but you also find newspapers from Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Jamaica, Denmark, South Africa, and the US Virgin Islands.

At the time of writing there are nine free special interest archives averaging between 15 thousand and 50 thousand digitized newspaper pages, and there are more to come:

�We are adding to the collection at the rate of 2 new sites per week, says Jeffrey C. Kiley, General Manager of NewspaperARCIVES.

Here is the list of available specialized archives:

• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Titanic
• Asbestos
• Olympic Winter Games
• College basketball
• Professional baseball
• FBI
• September 11 2001

The NewspaperARCIVES offer a range of other services in addition to the specialized collections, but these services are not free.