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Collection Newspaper Chronicling America Historic American newspapers

About this Item

Title

  • Chronicling America

Other Title

  • Historic American newspapers

Summary

  • This database allows you to search and view public domain newspaper pages (1690-1963) and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. The National Endowment for the Humanities aims to have every state and U.S. territory represented in Chronicling America. One organization within each state or territory will receive an award to collaborate with relevant state partners in this effort. This rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Endowment for the Humanities
  • National Digital Newspaper Program (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress

Headings

Genre

  • Directories
  • Databases
  • History
  • Sources

Notes

  • -  Updated irregularly
  • -  Began in 2006.
  • -  "Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP)."
  • -  Contents viewed July 7, 2009; title from web page.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Z6951
  • AI3

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2009251126

OCLC Number

  • 86114510

ISSN Number

  • 2475-2703

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access star

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety. Any newspapers in Chronicling America that were published less than 95 years ago are also believed to be in the public domain, but may contain some copyrighted third party materials. Researchers using newspapers published less than 95 years ago should be alert for modern content (for example, registered and renewed for copyright and published with notice) that may be copyrighted. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

The NEH awardee responsible for producing each digital object is presented in the Chronicling America page display, below the page image – e.g. Image produced by the Library of Congress. For more information on current NDNP awardees, see https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/listawardees.html.

For more information on Library of Congress policies and disclaimers regarding rights and reproductions, see https://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Chronicling America. (United States), Jan. 1 2006. https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/.

APA citation style:

(2006, January 1) Chronicling America. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/.

MLA citation style:

Chronicling America. (United States) 1 Jan. 2006. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/.