Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for March 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 20 in total from 6 different states. Arkansas Updated content for […]
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The U.S. Virgin Islands received a NEW Grant to digitize newspapers in August, 2020. Chronicling America has just announced the addition of the first title. From The Library of Congress: “This month Chronicling America added newspapers from its 50th contributor – the University of the Virgin Islands! This first newspaper from the U.S. Virgin Islands, the St. Croix Avis, provides […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historical newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for February, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 26 in total from 8 different states and the Virgin Islands. Alaska Updated […]
The Alaska State Library has just announced that they have added 13 titles to the state’s digitized newspaper collection available at Chronicling America. The complete announcement can be read HERE Here are the titles that have been added: The New Native (Hydaburg, Alaska) The Free Press (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Alaska Socialist (Fairbanks, Alaska) The Midnight […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. Here are the updated titles for January, 2021. Some are new titles and some are added to an existing title’s pages in the database. There are 15 in total from 7 different states. Alaska Updated content for The Alaska daily empire. […]
I have been an historical newspaper research addict for a long time. In the past several years I have decided to ratchet up my interest and share what I have learned through newspaper research-related blog articles, huge link lists, as well as video tutorials. For all my articles about newspaper research, just navigate to the Newspapers Page of […]
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 […]
Chronicling America, the newspaper collection available for online research of United States historic newspapers, regularly updates their collection. At the end of 2020, there were almost 17,500,000 online pages available from over 3,300 titles. In 2020, 302 titles were added and/or updated to the collection from 27 states and the District of Columbia. Here are the newspaper titles added to […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has just announced the 2020 awards for funding for additions to Chronicling America: Maine State Library, Augusta, ME Award: $210,270 Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maine newspapers, dating from 1785 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Rutgers, the State University of […]
Chronicling America, through its new labs.loc.gov capability, is adding crowdsourcing of historic newspaper cartoons and photographs, which will allow users to provide captions for these images. From the announcement of this new feature, entitled “Beyond Words”: “The Library of Congress today launched labs.loc.gov, a new online space that will host a changing selection of experiments, projects, events and […]
