The Chronicling America from the NEH and the Library of Congress is searchable database containing more than million digitized American newspapers pages (and growing) from 1880-1922.

Guides cover topics “widely covered” in the American press of the time. As of today (11/13/2009), there are 21 guides available with more expected soon.

Here are the titles of a few of the guides:

+ Annexation of Hawaii
+ Bloomer Girls (Women’s baseball)
+ Clara Barton
+ Comic Strips
+ Ellis Island
+ Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries
+ Jack the Ripper
+ Patent Medicines
+ Presidential Election of 1896
+ Pullman Porters
+ San Francisco Earthquake, 1906

You can the find the complete list and register for alerts when new guides released here.

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