Who's Responsible?

Key Features

  • Text search through all the papers on file using date and keywords. Advanced searching is also available. So far, there are only a limited number of states that are represented: CA, DC, FL, KY, MN, NE, NY, TX, UT and VA. Plans are in the works to expand soon.
  • A dynamic page viewer that includes the ability to zoom in and zoom out of a scanned newspaper page, plus up and down scrolling. Users can view the high resolution images, read the the text, download the the jpg image and print, all from within the viewer.
  • permanently-resolvable URLs, so you can link to a particular newspaper.

 

 

This service is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP ,which is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC), and is a long-term effort to develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.


This database and its search function provide a large collection of primary resource materials for middle school through college students, teachers, researchers, fiction writers, anyone with a need for newspaper articles from that period in history.