Launched by the NEH and the Library of Congress in March 2007, Chronicling America is a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the two agencies to provide enhanced access to historically significant United States newspapers. NEH Acting Chairman Carole M. Watson announced grant awards to seven new NDNP state projects during the event, as well. New state partners in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and South Carolina will select historically important newspapers published in their respective states and oversee the digitization of those newspapers for posting to the Chronicling America website...

This online resource will eventually contain 20 million pages of historic American newspapers from 1836 to 1922, and in addition to the digitized pages, Chronicling America offers educational essays on every title represented and a directory of all newspapers published in the United States from 1690 to the present.

•   MySQL: 1TB database
•   Solr: 68GB Lucene index
•   Apache: mod_wsgi, mod_cache
•   Python/Django
•   1,249,747 newspaper pages from 140 newspaper titles
•   Metadata about 139,600 newspaper titles
•   Linkeddata views using python's rdflib
•   OAI-ORE support for title, issue, page, batch aggregations