The National Endowment for the Humanities announced their latest round of funding today. Included in the awards are several to institutions who participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program who will be contributing material to the Chronicling America website – yeah! more digital newspapers!
Papers included will have been published between 1836-1922 and will be added to the website beginning in mid-2012.
States that will have more papers:
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Minnesota
- Montana
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Texas
- West Virginia
The full announcement is on the NEH website. For a newspaper freak like me, this is great news!
WONDERFUL news! I especially like that Texas is on the list. I’ve been researching more newspapers lately for possible leads on ancestors. So I would definitely like to be able to access more newspapers than there are available at this time. Yes, this is wonderful news indeed!