Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)

[Grant Barrett]

Just launched today:

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
today announced that "Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers" is debuting online with more than 226,000 pages of public
domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah,
Virginia, and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and
1910. The text of the newspapers is fully searchable, and search
terms can be limited to a particular state, a specific newspaper, by
year or years of publication and even by months.

Full press release:

http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20070321.html

The newspapers:

http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/

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