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Posted by: Arlene Balkansky
As April's National Poetry Month ends, here's your chance to read compelling poetry found in the millions of pages in our online historical newspaper collections.
Posted in: African American History, Digitized Newspapers, U.S. Presidents, Women's History, World War I
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This piece was co-written by my colleague Megan Halsband. To celebrate the 220th anniversary of its founding, on Friday, April 24, 2020, the Library of Congress is highlighting some of the many gifts and resources we have been able to provide because of your contributions. Your creativity and knowledge help us build our Web Archiving collections …
Posted in: African American History, Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents, Holidays, Newspapers, Web Archives, World War I
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Eileen Jakeway, an innovation specialist on the LC Labs team, first posted this piece to The Signal blog. In this post, Innovator in Residence Ben Lee talks about his aspirations for engaging the American public with the millions of images he extracted from Chronicling America. The Chronicling America historic newspapers online collection is a product of …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Arlene Balkansky
Tom Ewing, professor of history at Virginia Tech, focuses on epidemics as covered in late 19th and early 20th century newspapers that are digitized in the Chronicling America online collection.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, World War I
Posted by: Malea Walker
While the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room is closed during the pandemic, we are extending our chat hours to 12pm to 4pm, Monday through Friday! Chat with us live, send us a message, or give us a call. Read more about our resources and how we can help!
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers