Chronicling America
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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]
Producer | National Digital Newspaper Program (United States) |
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History | 2007–present |
Languages | English, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Russian, Bulgarian (non-exhaustive list) |
Access | |
Cost | Free |
Coverage | |
Format coverage | Newspapers |
Temporal coverage | 1690–1963 |
Geospatial coverage | The United States and its territories |
Links | |
Website | chroniclingamerica |
Title list(s) | chroniclingamerica |
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]