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Library of Congress creates website for old news in digital age

The Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the debut of “Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers,” a new website with more than 226,000 pages of public-domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910.

The program, produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program, will be developed and maintained by the Library of Congress.

According to the Library of Congress, over a period of approximately 20 years the website will be updated with historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922 from all U.S. states and territories.

“The Library congratulates all the partners in this extraordinary program to make historic newspapers available through our website,” said Librarian of Congress James Billington said in a news release. “The National Digital Newspaper Program provides access to one of the best sources of information about what was considered important to Americans at a given point in time.”

Related: http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/