The following sites showcase content in Chronicling America and provide examples of reusing digitized historic newspapers and associated metadata records in unique ways. Some utilize data mining techniques, harvesting, or individual newspaper pages.
- Tips for Searching Chronicling America
- Teaching Resources
- Using Chronicling America to Advance Research and Scholarship
- chronam (LC Newspaper Viewer Software)
- State Newspaper Project Blogs (NDNP Awardees)
- Videos
Tips for Searching Chronicling America
Chronicling America Guide : Searching African American Newspapers (external link)
US Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project
Chronicling America Historical Newspapers for National History Day 2022: Frontiers in History: People, Places, and Ideas (PDF, 8 MB)
Library of Congress
Chronicling America Historical Newspapers for National History Day 2023: Turning Points in History (PDF, 10.7 MB)
Library of Congress
Chronicling America Video Tutorials and Webinars (external link)
Ohio History Connection
Expanding Access to Historical News: Chronicling America Presentation (external link)
US Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project
Researching with Foreign Language Newspapers on Chronicling America (external link)
Ohio History Connection
Using Chronicling America for Genealogical Research, Find Your Ancestors in the Newspapers (PDF, 10.8 MB)
Library of Congress
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project Presentations (external link)
University of Vermont
Teaching Resources
DLNP K-12 Resources (external link)
Louisiana State University
EDSITEment! Chronicling America Lesson Plans (external link)
National Endowment for the Humanities
EDSITEment! Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America (external link)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Expanding Access to Historical News (external link)
Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project
Extra! Montana News 1864-1922 (external link)
Montana Historical Society
Hazel Hunkins, Billings Suffragist (external link)
Montana Historical Society
K-12 Resources (external link)
Oregon Digital Newspaper Program
Lesson Plans
Library of Congress
Lesson Plans (external link)
Ohio History Connection
Newspaper Narratives (external link)
The Portal to Texas History
University of North Texas
Historical South Carolina Newspapers: South Carolina History Articles & Topics (external link)
University of South Carolina
Resources for Teachers (external link)
Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project
Teaching With Historical Newspapers (external link)
Library of Congress
Thinking Like a Historian: Using Digital Newspapers in the Classroom (external link) (PDF, 3.9 KB)
Montana Historical Society
Topic Search Guides for Hawai'i and the Pacific (external link)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library
Topics in Chronicling America (external link)
Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room
Serial and Government Publication Division
Library of Congress
Using Chronicling America to Advance Research and Scholarship
The following examples re-use digital objects from Chronicling America in different ways. Some are displays of selected digital items, some use machine-harvested datasets from the site, some use standard APIs (application programming interface) to connect data in Chronicling America to other systems. There are lots of ways to discover more about historic newspapers - perhaps even make your own!
America’s Public Bible: Biblical Quotations in U.S. Newspapers (external link)
Lincoln Mullen
George Mason University
American Lynching: Uncovering a Cultural Narrative (external link)
Andrew Bales
University of Cincinnati
An Epidemiology of Information: Data Mining the 1918 Influenza Epidemic Project Report (external link)
Virginia Tech
University of Toronto
Animated Visualization of Arizona Sentinel Weekly, 1872-1911 (external link)
Software Studies Initiative
University of California, San Diego
Cyrus Kiani
Beyond Words (external link)
Library of Congress
Bookworm (external link)
Culturomics
Chronicling America Data Visualizations
Library of Congress
Chronicling America Title Essay Datasets (external link)
A project created by Daniel Evans while working as a Pathways Intern with the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endownment for the Humanities from 2022-2023
Hosted in Github by Library of Congress
Chronicling Hoosier (external link)
Kristi Palmer
Indiana University-Purdue University
Create Modern Microfiche with the Chronicling America API (external link)
Tim Kulp - MSDN Magazine
Data Visualization: Journalism’s Voyage West: Visualizing US Newspapers, 1690-2011 (external link)
Rural West Initiative, Bill Lane Center for the American West
Stanford University
Delaware Newspapers (external link)
Theresa Hessey
Delaware Digital Newspaper Project
DeXTER (DeepTextMiner) (external link)
Lorella Viola
University of Luxembourg
Digital APUSH: Revealing History with Chronicling America (external link)
A.P. U.S. History Students
Sunapee High School
Exploring US Newspapers with the Chronicling America API (external link)
Isaac Wink, University of Kentucky Libraries
Workshop Interactive Notebook (external link)
Hawai'i newspaper content in Chronicling America (external link)
Flickr set of images from Hawai'i newspapers cropped from Chronicling America
University of Hawai'i Manoa Library
Historic Newspapers (Library of Congress Flickr pilot project) (external link)
Library of Congress
Historical Agricultural News (external link)
Amy Giroux
University of Central Florida
Image Analysis for Archival Discovery (Aida) (external link)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Virginia
Mapping Texts (external link)
Stanford University
University of North Texas
News in Proportion (external link)
Ed Sperr
Newspaper Navigator
Explore images from Chronicling America using machine learning techniques
Library of Congress
University of Alabama Scholarly API Cookbook (external link)
University of Alabama
Recetas de las Américas (Recipes From the Americas) (external link)
A digital humanities project created to explore food in newspapers
US Caribbean and Ethnic Florida Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
US News Map (external link)
Claudio Saunt
University of Georgia
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project Flickr Photostream (external link)
Flickr set of images from Vermont cropped from Chronicling America
University of Vermont
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
Pinterest landing page
University of Vermont
Viral Texts: Mapping Networks of Reprinting in 19th-Century Newspapers and Magazines (external link)
NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks
Northeastern University
Visualizing newspapers history: The Hawaiian Star, 5930 front pages, 1893-1912 (external link)
Software Studies Initiative
University of California, San Diego
Cyrus Kiani
150-year-old Mark Twain Stories Uncovered (external link)
Curt Hopkins - The Daily Dot
chronam (LC Newspaper Viewer Software)
The Web-based software application that drives the Chronicling America Web site is published as open-source software code by the Library of Congress as chronam (LC Newspaper Viewer). This software, using Apache, Django Web Framework for Python, MySQL and SOLR/Lucene, is available for use with digital objects modeled according to the NDNP technical guidelines.
chronam (LC Newspaper Viewer Software) (external link)
Library of Congress
Georgia Historic Newspapers (external link)
Digital Library of Georgia
Historic Oregon Newspapers (external link)
University of Oregon
Montana Newspapers (external link)
Montana Historical Society
Nebraska Newspapers (external link)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska State Historical Society
North Carolina Newspapers (external link)
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
NYS Historic Newspapers (external link)
Northern New York Library Network
Empire State Library Network
open-oni (external link)
Open - Online Newspaper Initative
Pennsylavania Newspaper Archive (external link)
Penn State University Libraries
Texas A&M Newspaper Collection (external link)
Texas A&M University Libraries
State Newspaper Project Blogs (NDNP Awardees)
See Awards Recipients page for links to other Awardee Project Sites.
Alaska Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
Alaska State Library
Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project (CDNP) Blogs (external link)
Connecticut State Library
Delaware Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
University of Delaware
Florida and Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
University of Florida
Fit to Print: Dispatches from the Virginia Newspaper Project @ the Library of Virginia (external link)
Library of Virginia
Hawai'i Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
University of Hawai'i at Manoa Library
Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print
Serial & Government Publications Division
Library of Congress
Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Newspaper Program (external link)
Indiana State Library
National Digital Newspaper Program: The Kentucky Edition (external link)
University of Kentucky
Nevada Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (external link)
University of Oregon
The Portal to Texas History News (external link)
University of North Texas
Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project (external link)
University of Tennessee and the Tennessee State Library and Archives
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project (external link)
University of Vermont
Videos
How do we digitize historic newspapers? (external link)
Wisconsin Historical Society
In The Field - National Digital Newspaper Program (external link)
National Endowment for the Humanities
NDNP: The Kentucky Edition (external link)
University of Kentucky
The Vermont Digital Newspaper Project Video (external link)
University of Vermont
Last Updated: 03/27/2024