Chronicling America is in the process of transitioning from the legacy Chronicling America interface to a new Chronicling America interface and back-end search infrastructure. Read more about it.
Through its enhanced search interface, the new Chronicling America offers more options to search the collection than the old Chronicling America. Search faceting is only available in the new interface.
Search faceting allows you to refine your search and narrow or expand your search results without starting a new search. It works well when you're searching a specific topic but don't know where you want to start your search. You can facet by newspaper title, date, state/province, county, city, ethnicity, language, subject, newspaper page (useful if you're interested in front-page coverage), and more.
For example, if you are interested in learning more about Abraham Lincoln, you can start with a full text search of his name, with the words within 5 words of each other.
Chronicling America is in the process of transitioning from the legacy Chronicling America interface to a new Chronicling America interface and back-end search infrastructure. Read more about it.
Through its enhanced search interface, thenew Chronicling America offers more options to search the collection than the old Chronicling America. The proximity search is available in both interfaces.
Proximity searching narrows your search by specifying whether keywords are next to, near to, or within a given distance from one another. Proximity searches are useful when searching historic newspapers because you may want to search an exact phrase, such as a place name or a historic quote, or you may want to use broader search criteria because you're uncertain how a newspaper printed a phrase, such as a person's name.
To do a proximity search on the old interface, click on the "Advanced Search" tab and enter your keywords into one of the four boxes: "with any of the words," "with all of the words," "with the phrase," and "with the words... within # of words of each other."
To do a proximity search on the new interface, click on the "Collection Items" tab and click the "plus" button next to "Advanced Search."
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Try out a search in the new Chronicling America interface today!
The Chronicling Americahistoric newspapers online collection is a product of theNational Digital Newspapers Programand jointly sponsored by the Library and theNational Endowment for the Humanities.
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As we announced last week, Chronicling America is in the process of transitioning from the legacy Chronicling America interface to a new Chronicling America interface and back-end search infrastructure. Read more about it.
Through its enhanced search interface, thenew Chronicling America offers more options to search the collection than the old Chronicling America.
In the old Chronicling America interface, the simple search is on the home page.
TheLibrary of Congressisexcited to announcethat the Chronicling America Historic Newspapers website is in the process of transitioning from the legacyChronicling Americainterface to a newChronicling Americainterface and back-end search infrastructure.
In Spring 2024, visitors going tochroniclingamerica.loc.govwill be re-directed to thenew Chronicling America website, which will continue to provide free access to historic digitized newspapers. The exact date will be announced in the coming months on the newChronicling America Website Migrationpage, on theChronicling America Historical Newspapers email list, and also added to the home pages on both versions of the Chronicling America website. The current version of the website will be officially sunset later in 2024.
Users are encouraged to begin using thenew Chronicling America websitefor research. AResearch Guide on using Chronicling Americain the new environment is available.
In the new system, the digitized newspapers will become part of a larger Library of Congress digital collections framework that recently received major upgrades to accommodate future growth and expansion of the collection. New website features include faceted browse options (refine searches by ethnicity, location, subject, language, etc.), improved image viewing, improved Advanced Search options, and more. The new interface also allows users to browsedigitized titlesin amap. Uploads to the new interface are now automated so you may notice that there are more pages available in the new interface than thelongstanding version ofChronicling America.
As part of the updates, theUnited States Newspaper Directory 1690-Presenthas also been migrated into a separate searchable collection. Users can access the newDirectory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries, which is a searchable index of newspapers published in the United States since 1690. This directory can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them. For a detailed overview of the Directory, search tips, and FAQs, please consult theDirectory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries: A Guide for Researchers.
Digital Humanities scholars and researchers who access the collection via computational methods will continue to have access to bulk OCR but should transition to using the Loc.Gov API atloc.gov/apis. Bulk OCR downloads can be accessed from the longstandingOCR Data pageuntil further notice when a new "Datasets" page will be made available on the new site.
Chronicling America was originally launched in 2007 and later updated to the current version of the website in 2011. Since that time, the site saw the growth of the collection to include over 21 million newspaper pages from every state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), NDNP continues to award funds to cultural heritage institutions around the United States to participate in the program.
Please send feedback about the new website tondnptech@loc.govand subscribe to theChronicling America Historical Newspapers email listfor more updates.
The 2024 Junior Fellows Program (JFP) is accepting applications now through Monday, November 27, 2023. JFP 2024 is a paid internship offering remote and onsite projects for many different majors and interests.
Opportunity
The Junior Fellows Program is a paid, full-time summer internship that enables the next generation of diverse cultural institution professionals to experience and interpret the collections, events, and services of the world's largest, all-inclusive library.
Projects increase access to Library of Congress collections and promote awareness of the Library's resources to Congress and people in communities across America. With guidance from mentors, Junior Fellows produce products that position the Library as a dynamic center for fostering innovation, sparking creativity, and building lifelong connections.
Program Dates and Schedule
JFP24 starts on Monday, May 20 and ends on Friday, July 26, 2024.
Junior Fellows work 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday.
Eligibility
Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students from all majors, and recent graduates between January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023 are eligible to apply.
How to Apply
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Researching the Black Press in Chronicling America (Remote)
Project Description: In this project, the Junior Fellow will learn how to research the Black Press in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries using primary and secondary sources and write newspaper history essays to provide context to users of Chronicling America under the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This project seeks to expand collection access and context for many of the individual newspaper titles digitized in a 2021-2023 project. The incumbent will create up to ten well-researched newspaper history essays up to 500 words long, representing significant titles or groups of titles from this collection, providing additional context to the content in the newspapers, the community they served, and the publishers and editors who created the newspapers. Americans will benefit from this project by gaining a deeper of the Black Press and its impact.
Knowledge and skills required: Ability to perform research in historic primary resources. Ability to research and write concise, well-written essays for public consumption. Knowledge of 19th and early 20th century African American History, including people, events, and places. Familiarity in using digital collections repositories or databases, or digitized materials.
Knowledge and skills preferred: Ability to perform research in historic newspapers. Familiarity with the American Black Press in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In case you missed it, the video recording from the September 6 webinar "Chronicling America 'Turning Points in History'" is available.
Join Library of Congress Reference Librarian Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist Mike Saelee to learn how to search for primary source materials in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963 for National History Day research. The presentation caters to this year’s theme, "Turning Points in History," and will discuss the collection, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers, and additional resources to assist students and educators. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress and invites you to attend the webinar on September 20, 2023 at 4:00PM ET "Can Historical Newspapers be an Antidote to the Environmental Crisis?" in which author Kerri Arsenault considers how our environmental crisis is tethered to an aesthetic and rhetorical crisis. So many institutions grant the public “free” access to archives, but what if—as an ordinary citizen—you can’t even find the door? This talk will consider barriers to information, how such obstacles may exacerbate the environmental crisis, and what newspapers can do that many resources cannot to help unlock knowledge for those who need it most. Kerri Arsenault is a literary critic, co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University, contributing editor at Orion magazine, and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (2020), which won the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award (2021) and the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2021) and was a finalist for the Connecticut Humanities Book Award for Nonfiction (2021). Recently, she was a Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and a fellow at the Science History Institute. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. Click to register for the event.
Join Library of Congress Reference Librarian Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist Mike Saelee to learn how to search for primary source materials in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963 for National History Day research. The presentation will cater to this year’s theme, "Turning Points in History," and will discuss the collection, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers, and additional resources to assist students and educators. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
This presentation will be hosted live on September 6, 2023 from 1:00-1:35pm EDT and will be recorded for later viewing. For those unable to attend this program at the time, the recording will be available for viewing afterward at the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room's Event Webinars collection.
Individuals requiring ADA accommodations should submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Please register for the event.
The webinar recording for "Using Chronicling America for Historical Research: The Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War" is now available.
Join the Library of Congress in exploring historical events, such as those in the American Civil War, usingChronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963. The talk demonstrates search strategies for names, places, and events in this vast collection. The methods can also be used to research general military history and other events.
Click here for more information.
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Join the Library of Congress for our final online research sprint with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) for their History Unfolded project on May 24, 2023, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (US and Canada). Search the Library’s historic American newspaper collection, Chronicling America, to find out what people knew and how they reacted to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust.
Staff from the Library of Congress will present the Library’s historic newspaper archive, Chronicling America, and demonstrate how to use the advanced search functions. Staff from USHMM will introduce the History Unfolded project, which investigates U.S. press coverage of several Holocaust-related events. They will instruct participants on how to submit relevant newspaper articles to the History Unfolded database. Following the presentations there will be time to conduct your own research and upload findings to History Unfolded.
Request ADA accommodations at least five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
Click here for more information and to register for the webinar.
You are welcome to attend the webinar "Using Chronicling America for Historical Research: The Atlanta Campaign of the United States Civil War" on May 10, 2023 from 6:00-7:00pm EDT.
Learn how to use our digitized newspaper collection to conduct historical research, with a special focus on the American Civil War. Join Henry Carter (Library of Congress) and Donald Summerlin (University of Georgia Libraries) to learn how to research military history in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963. The presenters will discuss the collection, the search interface, and how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers. The presentation will specifically focus on researching the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, but the search techniques can be applied to broader military history research. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you encounter problems with your registration, please contact ndnptech@loc.gov.
Individuals requiring ADA accommodations are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.
This presentation will be recorded.
Click for more information and to register.
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We are excited to announce that we have uploaded the first batches of Massachusetts newspapers from our partner, Boston Public Library, to Chronicling America! With these contributions, Chronicling America now extends back to 1770. We will continue to add more content in the coming months.
Titles and date ranges currently available:
Explore the newspapers here.
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The Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announce the addition of two new interactive tools for creating and analyzing Chronicling America datasets. In addition to the over 20 million pages of digitized news available, for every newspaper added to Chronicling America, National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) state partners provide 500-word newspaper biographies or title essays. These essays contain information about the editor or publisher, the history of the publication, information about the community the newspaper served, and important events the newspaper covered.
In a recent National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) blog post, Daniel Evans, a PhD student at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Pathways Intern with the NEH, describes his project to re-envision these newspaper essays as data. He created two web-based Jupyter notebooks that guide researchers through the process of using these essays as data. Using both notebooks requires little-to-no programming experience. They are included with other tutorials and resources on the Library of Congress’s GitHub repository. Their goal is to provide researchers with a downloadable dataset of all the title essays and tips on how one can create specific queries related to a variety of research needs and interests.
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Chronicling America—a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Library of Congress, and state cultural institutions—includes over 20 million pages of U.S. newspapers from 1777–1963. What can you do with these newspapers? Genealogy, teaching with primary sources, citizen history projects, and experiments with artificial intelligence (AI)! Come learn how these free and publicly accessible newspapers can be used for research Tuesday, December 13 at 2pm ET.
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Chronicling America has grown its collection of newspapers by and for Native American communities under the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) over the past decade through the contributions of state partners. This blog post features interviews with state partners from Arizona and Minnesota who have digitized several titles by and about Native Americans featured in Chronicling America. It also provides search tips for finding the titles and searching within the newspapers.
Clickhereto read the post.
The FCC today adopted a decision on digital radio that does the following:
(1) HD operation will now be allowed without prior authority, even for dual antenna operations. Thus, no further need to apply for STAs for dual antenna operations.
(2) Nighttime AM HD operations are now authorized.
(3) HD operations by FM translators, FM boosters, and LPFMs are now authorized.
(4) The main channel of HD operations must simulcast the analog programming.
(5) HD2 and HD3 operations may proceed without prior authority. Thus, no need to apply for experimental authority for HD2 and HD3 operations.
(6) Broadcasters may lease HD2 and HD3 channels to third parties.
(7) There is no mandatory conversion schedule for HD broadcasting. Also, no exclusive digital only operations will be authorized at this time.
(8) The issue of whether there should be additional content control requirements (i.e. restrictions on the ability of receivers to archive programming) is deferred.
(9) The FCC is seeking further comment upon the amount of subscription services that may be run, and whether there should be additional public interest channels on the digital channels.
Once the Commission releases the Report and Order on this decision, more will be known about the nuances. For now, however, it is encouraging to see that AM HD nighttime broadcasting is authorized, that translators and LPFMs can broadcast an HD signal, and that the time-consuming requirements to file for STAs and for experimental authority for some HD broadcasting has been eliminated.
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