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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/ index.html. Created and maintained by the National Digital Newspaper Program, jointly sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reviewed Nov. 15-Dec. 29, 2007.
Digitized historic newspapers are among the richest primary sources available for Internet research. Up to now, however, searching newspaper archives has been expensive and limited-researchers must use commercial Web sites to access major newspaper archives (such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times) or have access to university libraries that subscribe to the ProQuest historical databases. Digitization of microfilm is becoming more affordable, and this spurred the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities to establish the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This ambitious project aims to make historical U.S....