Chronicling America is a long-running part of the Library of Congress website. If you don’t know about this free access to thousands of newspaper and how it came about check here. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/. This morning my email had this update to the newspapers now digitized. Click on the Subscribe tab near the top of the About […]
Love the free newspapers on Chronicling America? News this week from the Library of Congress: We’re Upgrading on August 4! On August 4, 2025, users will automatically be sent from the legacy version of Chronicling America to a new version of Chronicling America with added features and tools. If at any point we are […]
Chronicling America, which includes fantastic and free access to digitized newspapers, grows constantly and is gearing up for a whole new website. It includes newspapers that are digitized by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) which works with newspaper repositories around the United States. It operates under The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and […]
A press release from the U.S. Library of Congress surprised me. I had not known we still had some holdout states in the National Newspaper Project/Digital Newspaper Project in recent years. It now covers all 50 states+! “The success of the program over the past 18 years has extended the collection scope to the current […]