Ever wish you could go back in time?

• Do you ever wonder what the world looked like through the eyes of your great-great grandparents when they were your age?
• How did they find out what was happening in their world?

There was no internet, RSS feeds, Yahoo news or even television in the year 1908. At that time the radio was a new, hi-tech invention that was years away from being available to the public. How DID they get their news?

Newspapers!

Lucky for you, those exact same newspapers your ancestors read are now available online through a new website that is a searchable, digitized collection of selected newspaper pages. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

This site will help guide you through the many ways you can use the information stored in the database.

• There are tutorials that you can watch to learn how to use the different search options.
• an activity that will show you how the resources can be used by you.
• and a few helpful how-tos for finding information and properly citing information you find in the database to use in reports and projects.