Chronicling America
Chronicling America provides page images, searchable text, title information, and datasets from the National Digital Newspaper Program.
Limitations: Coverage differs by state, title, and date, and OCR is imperfect. Search spelling variants and inspect the original page before quoting.
Why it is useful
Chronicling America provides page images, searchable text, title information, and datasets from the National Digital Newspaper Program. This resource is especially useful for Searching digitized historic U.S. newspapers and newspaper directories. Review the current instructions and limitations from Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities before relying on it for important work.
Limitations
Coverage differs by state, title, and date, and OCR is imperfect. Search spelling variants and inspect the original page before quoting.