LOC and NEH Site Now Has Over 10 Million Pages of Vintage Newspapers
First thing we did was look up the Titanic.
The Chronicling America database features a record of history from the pages of newspapers published between 1836 and 1922–you know, the kind of stuff normally relegated to library microfiche collections.
Since it created the database in 2007, the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been adding pages from the past to its online, searchable collection. Today it surpassed the 10 million mark.
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