Chronicling America has undergone a major change this month. Check out the details on the Chronicling America Website Migration page. The Advanced Search page has changed as well. Here are the elements of the feature and how to use it. First of all, access the Main Chronicling America page. Below the header banner is a […]
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Chronicling America is a very popular website that provides free online digitized newspapers from the United States. It currently has almost 20 million digitized pages. It helps to understand the background of this website as well as some features that are not widely known. This QuickSheet tells you about how Chronicling America gets its database […]
Essentially, there are two methods to search Chronicling America for historical newspapers. Basic Search, available from the Home Page as well as the “Search Pages” tab, allows you to enter your search criteria, and restrict results to a single state and to a range of years. The Advanced Search, which I highly recommend that you […]
From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America website to a new digital environment alongside other Library of Congress digital collections. Read previous updates on this page for more information. While we are maintaining access to both sites into Spring 2024, after March 1, 2024, we will cease data […]
The fact is that all old newspapers ever published in the United States are not online. Much less than you might think. So let’s just say for now that 15 to 30% of all U.S. newspaper pages have been digitized. Personally, I think that’s a very high number, but…… That leaves about 70-85% that are […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for February 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 33 in total. Arizona District of Columbia Georgia Indiana Kansas Louisiana […]
New Hampshire is the last of the United States to join Chronicling America. Its first nine newspapers have been digitized and uploaded and are now available at Chronicling America – New Hampshire. The majority have titles published in the 1700s. Here is a list of all the titles. All are from Portsmouth: You can access […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for January 2024. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 9 in total. New Hampshire West Virginia Good Luck and Happy […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. 2023 Chronicling America Accomplishments In 2023, Chronicling America finally achieved the goal of including all 50 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. New Hampshire was the final state to join. 2024 Chronicling America […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates its collection. Here are the updated titles for December 2023. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 19 in total. Connecticut Maine Massachusetts Minnesota Montana Nebraska New York […]
