Library of Congress Chronicling America: Difference between revisions

The [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Chronicling America, National Historical Newspapers] project was commissioned to locate and preserve copies of newspapers published over the years in the towns, counties, and states of America dating back to 1690. The site presently contain almost 5 million pages of digitized newspapers and a list of virtually all of the newspapers published in America.  

Chronicling America, National Historic Newspapers is a website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LOC).  

The website has two major components: a digital database of digitized images of individual newspapers and a list of the existing copies of newspapers maintained by repositories throughout the U.S.  

The number of scanned images of newspapers from throughout the United States is steadily growing and presently includes almost 5 million images. The earliest coverage begins in 1836 and has yet to include all of the U.S. states. But content is increasing rapidly and additional states are being added in due course. All of the pages of the digital database are searchable by individual words or the names of individuals.  

*In the advanced search option, you have additional search choices that will narrow the responses. That includes selecting individual newspapers and further selections based on searching any phrase, an exact phrase or words in proximity.

The Newspaper Directory contains a listing of virtually all of the newspapers published in America since 1690. The online list is searchable by:  

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