Historical Newspapers for National History Day |
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Explore the Frontier and learn to use Chronicling America, a freely-available collection of historic American newspapers at the Library of Congress for research in this year's National History Day theme "Frontiers in History: People, Places, Ideas."
Join Reference Librarian, Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist, Mike Saelee for a presentation on Chronicling America, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers as primary sources, and additional resources to assist students and educators in National History Day research. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. For transcript and more information, visit https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-10539 |