Chronicling America
| Producer | National Digital Newspaper Program (United States) |
|---|---|
| History | 2007–present |
| Languages | English, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, Russian, Bulgarian (non-exhaustive list) |
| Access | |
| Cost | Free |
| Coverage | |
| Format coverage | Newspapers |
| Temporal coverage | 1690–1963 |
| Geospatial coverage | The United States and its territories |
| Links | |
| Website | chroniclingamerica |
| Title list(s) | chroniclingamerica |
Chronicling America is an open access, open source newspaper database and companion website. It is produced by the United States National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NDNP was founded in 2005. The Chronicling America website was publicly launched in March 2007. It is hosted by the Library of Congress. Much of the content hosted on Chronicling America is in the public domain.
The database is searchable by key terms, state, language, time period, or newspaper. The Chronicling America website contains digitized newspaper pages and information about historic newspapers to place the primary sources in context and support future research. It hosts newspapers written in a variety of languages. In selecting newspapers to digitize, the site relies on the discretion of contributing institutions.
The project describes itself as a "long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages." Local participants in the project receive two-year grants to scan approximately 100,000 newspaper pages, primarily from microfilm. For newspapers that are not digitized, the website directs users to library locations that are known to have the desired records available.