The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress and invites you to attend the webinar on September 20, 2023 at 4:00PM ET "Can Historical Newspapers be an Antidote to the Environmental Crisis?" in which author Kerri Arsenault considers how our environmental crisis is tethered to an aesthetic and rhetorical crisis. So many institutions grant the public “free” access to archives, but what if—as an ordinary citizen—you can’t even find the door? This talk will consider barriers to information, how such obstacles may exacerbate the environmental crisis, and what newspapers can do that many resources cannot to help unlock knowledge for those who need it most.Kerri Arsenault� is a literary critic, co-director of The Environmental Storytelling Studio at Brown University, contributing editor at Orion magazine, and author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (2020), which won the Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award (2021) and the Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2021) and was a finalist for the Connecticut Humanities Book Award for Nonfiction (2021). Recently, she was a Democracy Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History and a fellow at the Science History Institute. Her writing has been published in the Boston Globe, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.Click to register for the event.

Join Library of Congress Reference Librarian Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist Mike Saelee to learn how to search for primary source materials in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963 for National History Day research. The presentation will cater to this year’s theme, "Turning Points in History," and will discuss the collection, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers, and additional resources to assist students and educators. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.This presentation will be hosted live on September 6, 2023 from 1:00-1:35pm EDT and will be recorded for later viewing. For those unable to attend this program at the time, the recording will be available for viewing afterward at the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room's� Event Webinars collection.Individuals requiring ADA accommodations should submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] register for the event.

The webinar recording for "Using Chronicling America for Historical Research: The Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War" is now available.Join the Library of Congress in exploring historical events, such as those in the American Civil War, using� Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963. The talk demonstrates search strategies for names, places, and events in this vast collection. The methods can also be used to research general military history and other events.Click here for more information.�

News from the Library of CongressAda Lim�n to Reveal Poem for NASA Europa, Film Festival Lineup of of Rare Cinema and Special Guests Released,? Library Awards More than $200,000 to Five Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital Collections? and More Ada Lim�n to Reveal Poem for NASA Europa Clipper Mission During Live at the Library in JuneDuring Live at the Library in June, U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Lim�n � recently reappointed for a historic two-year term � will unveil her original poem written for the NASA Europa Clipper mission. Plus, celebrations for the Juneteenth holiday will honor African American folk music and photography. Celebrate Pride with a concert saluting Billy Strayhorn on June 8, and view a display of LGBTQ+ collection items in the Great Hall.Learn more.Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Next Round of Award Opportunities for Libraries, Archives, Museums, Higher Education and Artists/Scholars in ResidenceIndividuals and educational and cultural institutions who seek to imaginatively remix and reuse the Library of Congress' digital collections and create projects centering one or more of the following groups, Black, Indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and/or other communities of color � are invited to apply to award opportunities through the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative.Learn more.Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound Announces Full Lineup of Rare Cinema and Special GuestsThe Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center is announcing the full lineup of rare cinema and special guests to be featured at the inaugural Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound.? The new four-day film festival will be held June 15-18 in association with the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center at the American Film Institute's beautifully restored 1938 art deco theater in Silver Spring, Maryland.Learn more.Library Awards More than $200,000 to Five Projects Highlighting Uses of Digital CollectionsThe Library of Congress announced that five awards, totaling more than $200,000, have been awarded from the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative through a program available to Libraries, Archives, Museums and Higher Education institutions. The 2023 awardees will use these funds to create projects that offer creative approaches to the Library's digital collections and center Black, Indigenous, and Latino or Hispanic studies.Learn more.Library Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-Modern EraThe Library of Congress has completed a yearslong effort to digitize the Yongle Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian ????), the largest reference work created in pre-modern China, and possibly the world. Digital publication of the 41 volumes held in the Library's collections provides open access to one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human knowledge in book form.Learn more.

Join the Library of Congress for our final online research sprint with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) for their History Unfolded project on May 24, 2023, 6:00-8:00 PM EDT (US and Canada). Search the Library�s historic American newspaper collection, Chronicling America, to find out what people knew and how they reacted to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust.Staff from the Library of Congress will present the Library�s historic newspaper archive, Chronicling America, and demonstrate how to use the advanced search functions. Staff from USHMM will introduce the History Unfolded project, which investigates U.S. press coverage of several Holocaust-related events. They will instruct participants on how to submit relevant newspaper articles to the History Unfolded database. Following the presentations there will be time to conduct your own research and upload findings to History Unfolded.Request ADA accommodations at least five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] here for more information and to register for the webinar.

You are welcome to attend the webinar "Using Chronicling America for Historical Research: The Atlanta Campaign of the United States Civil War" on May 10, 2023 from 6:00-7:00pm EDT.Learn how to use our digitized newspaper collection to conduct historical research, with a special focus on the American Civil War. Join Henry Carter (Library of Congress) and Donald Summerlin (University of Georgia Libraries) to learn how to research military history in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of over 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1770 and 1963. The presenters will discuss the collection, the search interface, and how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers. The presentation will specifically focus on researching the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, but the search techniques can be applied to broader military history research. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you encounter problems with your registration, please contact [email protected] requiring ADA accommodations are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] presentation will be recorded.Click for more information and to register.

We are excited to announce that we have uploaded the first batches of Massachusetts newspapers from our partner, Boston Public Library, to Chronicling America! With these contributions, Chronicling America now extends back to 1770. We will continue to add more content in the coming months.Titles and date ranges currently available:Lancaster gazette (Lancaster, MA): March 4, 1828 to April 13, 1830The Massachusetts spy (Boston, MA): August 23, 1770 to September 24, 1772The Massachusetts spy, or, Thomas�s Boston journal (Boston, MA): October 8, 1772 to December 29, 1774Thomas�s Massachusetts spy, or, Worcester gazette (Worcester, MA): March 7, 1821 to May 16, 1821The Massachusetts spy (Worcester, MA): May 23, 1821 to September 3, 1823The Daily spy (Worcester, MA): June 28, 1848 to September 18, 1850Worcester daily spy (Worcester, MA): September 19, 1850 to December 31, 1853; January 1, 1858 to December 31, 1863The guardian (Boston, MA): January 3, 1948 to April 20, 1957Explore the newspapers here.

The Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announce the addition of two new interactive tools for creating and analyzing Chronicling America datasets. In addition to the over 20 million pages of digitized news available, for every newspaper added to Chronicling America, National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) state partners provide 500-word newspaper biographies or title essays. These essays contain information about the editor or publisher, the history of the publication, information about the community the newspaper served, and important events the newspaper covered.In a recent National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) blog post, Daniel Evans, a PhD student at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign and Pathways Intern with the NEH, describes his project to re-envision these newspaper essays as data. He created two web-based Jupyter notebooks that guide researchers through the process of using these essays as data. Using both notebooks requires little-to-no programming experience. They are included with other tutorials and resources on the Library of Congress�s GitHub repository. Their goal is to provide researchers with a downloadable dataset of all the title essays and tips on how one can create specific queries related to a variety of research needs and interests.

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Chronicling America�a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Library of Congress, and state cultural institutions�includes over 20 million pages of U.S. newspapers from 1777�1963. What can you do with these newspapers? Genealogy, teaching with primary sources, citizen history projects, and experiments with artificial intelligence (AI)! Come learn how these free and publicly accessible newspapers can be used for research Tuesday, December 13 at 2pm ET.? Register for the webinar.?

Chronicling America has grown its collection of newspapers by and for Native American communities under the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) over the past decade through the contributions of state partners. This blog post features interviews with state partners from Arizona and Minnesota who have digitized several titles by and about Native Americans featured in Chronicling America. It also provides search tips for finding the titles and searching within the newspapers.Click? here? to read the post.

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Join the Library of Congress for an online research sprint with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) for their History Unfolded project on November 14, 2022, 6:00-8:00 PM EST (US and Canada). Search the Library�s historic American newspaper collection, Chronicling America, to find out what people knew and how they reacted to the events leading up to and during the Holocaust.Staff from the Library of Congress will present the Library�s historic newspaper archive, Chronicling America, and demonstrate how to use the advanced search functions. Staff from USHMM will introduce the History Unfolded project, which investigates U.S. press coverage of several Holocaust-related events. They will instruct participants on how to submit relevant newspaper articles to the History Unfolded database. Following the presentations there will be time to conduct your own research and upload findings to History Unfolded.Request ADA accommodations at least five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] here for more information and to register for the webinar.

Join us in person or virtually for a discussion with author Louisa Treger about her novel Madwoman, based on the life of a trailblazing journalist Nellie Bly, on November 9, 2022, 12:00-1:00 PM EST (US and Canada). Bly faked madness and had herself committed to a lunatic asylum in order to expose the dreadful conditions at Blackwell�s asylum in 1887. Treger will talk about how she used the resources at the Library of Congress, including Chronicling America, to research this spellbinding story. �Made at the Library� is an event series highlighting works inspired by and emerging from research at the Library of Congress. Featuring authors, artists, and other creators in conversation with Library experts, this series takes a deep dive into the process of working with the Library�s collections.Request ADA accommodations at least five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] here for more information and to register for the webinar.

Join Library of Congress Reference Librarian Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist Mike Saelee to learn how to search for primary source materials in Chronicling America, a free digital collection of almost 20 million pages from American newspapers published between 1777 and 1963 for National History Day research. The presentation will cater to this year�s theme, "Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas," and will discuss the collection, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers, and additional resources to assist students and educators. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.This presentation will be hosted live on September 15, 2022 from 1:00-1:35pm EDT and will be recorded for later viewing.Individuals requiring ADA accommodations should submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or [email protected] register for the event.

Join us for the webinar "Double Victory in Black and White: What Digitized Historical Newspapers Reveal about the African American Experience of WWII" on Thursday, September 29, 2022 from 4-5:15pm EDT.Drawing on his new book, "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad" (Viking, October 2022), historian Matthew Delmont explores how Black newspapers led the Double Victory campaign during WWII, to secure victory over fascism abroad and victory over racism at home. Black newspaper reporters told the stories of the vital roles Black troops played and brought the triumphs and tragedies of the war home to Black readers. The Black press raised questions regarding race, democracy, and citizenship that remain relevant eight decades later.After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you encounter problems with your registration, please contact [email protected] requiring ADA accommodations are requested to submit a request at least five business days in advance by contacting (202) 707-6362 or [email protected]? here for more information and to register for the webinar.

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) has reached two major milestones this September: the? inclusion of New Hampshire? as the 50th? state to join the program and making 20 million pages freely available to the public on the? Chronicling America? website.Dartmouth College will serve as the New Hampshire state hub, partnering with the New Hampshire State Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the University of New Hampshire Library to identify historical newspapers that reflect the state�s political, economic, and cultural history for inclusion in Chronicling America.? The success of the program over the past 18 years has extended the collection scope to the current date range of 1777-1963, to include any language published in the United States, and to include newspapers published in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. It is on the strength and diversity of these collective contributions that Chronicling America has become such an impactful database at 20 million pages, unique among other free digitized newspaper collections that may focus on a region, topic, or period in American history.Click here for more information.