Digital Newspaper Program Adds Content
To get a better grasp of history, check out some of the newspaper pages published from 1880 to 1910 that are being made available for free online through the National Digital Newspaper Program. The program announced last week that it has added more than 112,000 additional historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site.
The National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, seeks to provide enhanced access to U.S. newspapers by creating over the next 20 years a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This publicly available free searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress.
In all, there are 977,440 pages from 112 titles published in nine states (California, Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Texas Utah and Virginia as well as the District of Columbia). Six additional states -- Arizona, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington -- will be contributing content later in 2009, according to an update from the Library of Congress. -- Winter Casey
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