Chronicling America (see the link above) is a National Endowment for the Humanities/Library of Congress project to digitize and provide free online access to historical newspapers from across the United States. The database provides nearly 4 million historic newspaper pages found in more than 500 newspaper titles from 30 states and the District of Columbia.
The below image shows the Basic Search screen. Basic search options are limited to state, time period, and keywords located near each other.
Advanced searching can be performed by clicking on the Advanced Search tab on the homepage. The Advanced Search screen provides more search options than Basic Search, including more specific date range searching and keyword proximity searching.
6. Chronicling America will look for your search terms within the newspaper page. Another way to put it: Unlike many databases, Chronicling America will not search a term across more than one page.
7. The keywords that you entered in the search query will be highlighted in red on the page. To move around the page hold down on the left mouse button and move the mouse. Left click on the mouse to enlarge the image.
8. The easiest way to print or download an image is to select the PDF link. You can also print and download specific sections of a page with the use of the scissors icon in the upper right corner of the image screen.
The U.S. Newspaper Directory linked from Chronicling America can be very useful in identifying newspapers that are not in full text on the database.
Contact the Subject Librarian for the Department of History: Jannette DeMary (demaryj@nsuok.edu)