The Theme for National History Day 2012–2013 is “Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, Events”: a great subject with lots of potential for a really unique and winning project—if you have the resources to carry it out.
You may already know that Chronicling America provides free access to millions of digitalized pages of America’s Historic Newspapers from 1836–1922. But did you know what unique types of primary source information this collection contains?