The following is a guest post by David Brunton, a Supervisory Information Technology Specialist in the Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives.
I have heard the National Digital Newspaper Program jokingly described as “putting breaking new online, within 200 years.” In some ways, it’s a fitting tag line: the most current newspaper pages released on Chronicling America are nearly ninety years past.
It’s a phenomenal project: a joint venture between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to digitize historic American newspapers. It’s fueled by partners in state institutions who select and digitize American papers from between 1836 and 1922. Try searching