About Chronicling America
Chronicling America is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress to digitize and provide free online access to historical English-language newspapers from across the United States. Approximately 4 million historic newspaper pages are available with new content added quarterly. Currently contains 557 newspaper titles from 30 states and the District of Columbia, spanning 1836 through 1922. Also includes a newspaper directory with information about American newspapers published from 1690 to the present day.