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Historical Newspapers Online
Edited by Deborah Bishov and Nick Okrent
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Philadelphia, PA
2006-
URL: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/historicalnewspapersonline
Last visited June 2014
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Keywords Directories, Electronic media. History, Newspapers, United States of America
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-06-2014-0160
The University of Pennsylvania Libraries' Historical Newspapers Online (HNO) provides a free directory of links to digitized archives of American newspapers, most dating from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
As of June 2014, the Newspapers by State page contained 674 links, each of which linked to one or more newspaper titles from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Some links pointed to the Chronicling America webpages for states with newspaper titles digitized by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Other links pointed to state or university-sponsored projects to digitize newspapers, such as the Arizona Digital Newspaper Program. Still other links...