Chronicling America

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Chronicling America
ProducerNational Digital Newspaper Program (United States)
History2007–present
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Russian, Bulgarian (non-exhaustive list)
Access
CostFree
Coverage
Format coverageNewspapers
Temporal coverage1690–1963
Geospatial coverageThe United States and its territories
Links
Websitechroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Title list(s)chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/

Chronicling America is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website.[1][2][3] It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.[4][5][6] The NDNP was founded in 2005.[7] The Chronicling America website was publicly launched in March 2007.[8][9][10] It is hosted by the Library of Congress.[11][12] Much of the content hosted on Chronicling America is in the public domain.[13]

The database is searchable by key terms, state, language, time period, or newspaper.[7][14][12] The Chronicling America website contains digitized newspaper pages and information about historic newspapers to place the primary sources in context and support future research.[14][15][16] It hosts newspapers written in a variety of languages.[17][13] In selecting newspapers to digitize, the site relies on the discretion of contributing institutions.[6]

The project describes itself as a "long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages."[15] Local participants in the project receive two-year grants to scan approximately 100,000 newspaper pages, primarily from microfilm.[15][18] For newspapers that are not digitized, the website directs users to library locations that are known to have the desired records available.[3][16]

History

The first series of newspaper digitization was completed with input from universities in 2007, and included public domain entries from six states and the

District of Columbia.[16] The site was launched for public use In March 2007.[8][9][10]

In June 2009, the site added support for

Web crawlers and API. In May 2011, the site added tools to share its digitized content on social media.[18] As of 2012, Chronicling America had over 5.2 million individual newspaper pages available for viewing and/or downloading, representing 801 titles from 32 states; though the project initially targeted newspapers from the 1900-1910 period, it had gradually expanded so that papers scanned currently span the years 1836-1922. Papers from 4 additional states (Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, and North Carolina) were then slated to be added to the collection, and grant-funded projects to scan papers from these states were then underway so that the material could be added to the site in 2013.[15][19]

By 2014, the website hosted digital newspaper records from thirty-six states.

United States territories.[22] As of 2021, that expanded to support digitization of records from all U.S. states and territories.[23] As of 2020, it had digitized 16.3 million pages.[5]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-8389-1782-4
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  2. ^ "National Endowment for the Humanities Selects UNT Libraries for a Sixth Round of the National Digital Newspaper Program". University of North Texas Libraries. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021. Chronicling America is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress in an effort to build a nationwide, open-access repository of digitized historic newspapers.
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    Ingenta Connect
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  4. The Niagara Gazette
    . Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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    S2CID 157575916
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  7. ^ a b Penn, Tonijala; Butterhof, Robin; Thomas, Deborah (10 August 2015). "Voices and Viewpoints in Chronicling America: Uses of Historical News for Education and Outreach" (PDF). International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-30. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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    ISSN 0950-4125
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  9. ^ a b "First Drafts of History at Your Fingertips". American Historical Association Today. American Historical Association. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  10. ^ a b "Bringing Historic Newspapers to Your Desktop: The National Digital Newspaper Program". National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program. Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers" (PDF). Ohio History Connection. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2012-10-06. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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    S2CID 61017432
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    JSTOR 10.5406/jillistathistsoc.110.1.0087 – via JSTOR
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  14. ^
    JSTOR 25095783
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  15. ^ a b c d "About Chronicling America". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
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    S2CID 57983074
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  17. S2CID 148833575
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    S2CID 25698471
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  19. ^ "Award Recipients". National Digital Newspaper Program. Library of Congress. October 22, 2012. Archived from the original on 2011-03-01. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  20. ^ LaFrance, Adrienne (7 October 2015). "12 Historic Gems From One of the Best Time Capsules Online". The Atlantic. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  21. ^ Rothman, Lily (7 October 2015). "See the Original Newspaper Headlines From 10 Major Moments in American History". Time. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  22. ^ a b "Chronicling America Newspaper Project Reaches 48 States". National Endowment for the Humanities. 29 August 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-12-01. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  23. ^ a b "Historic Newport newspapers and those from around the state now can be viewed digitally". The Newport Daily News. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

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