Searching Chronicling America

Chronicling America provides free access to millions of historic American newspaper pages. Listed at these links are topics widely covered in the American press of the time. Chronicling America will be adding more topics on a regular basis. To find out what's new, sign up for Chronicling America’s weekly notification service, that highlights interesting content on the site and lets you know when new newspapers and topics are added.

Using Chronicling America

These short tutorial videos will help you use Chronicling America.

The first video instructs Chronicling America users how to save and download content from the site.

The second video is on Basic and Advanced Search in Chronicling America

(Tutorial video to come)

EDSITEment Resources

Dusty old newspapers are treasure troves of fascinating information, valuable historical context, and rich primary source material. They are also a great way to encourage students to immerse themselves in the past—on their own, in school, or at home.