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Historic American Newspapers

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Historic American Newspapers and National History Day

Location: Blue Room B

Facilitators: Keith Patterson & Cindy Stout

Thesis: In a successful democracy, technology, historically, carries both rights and responsibilities

GETTING

STARTED

ACTIVITY

RESOURCES & PROMPTS

Introduction to the Historical Newspapers in Chronicling American at the Library of Congress

SESSION 2

ACTIVITY

RESOURCES & PROMPTS

An investigation of the horseless carriage with historic newspapers

Hands on with historic newspapers

Find a topic of interest in Recommended Topics in Chronicling America and explore with what you just learned
Do the same for a topic of interest in the Featured Topics on the Colorado Historic Newspapers site

Additional Resources

Edsitement Chronicling America Page: http://edsitement.neh.gov/what-chronicling-america
NHD Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Prize: http://www.nhd.org/SpecialPrizeinfo.htm
Free software for working with JPEG 2000 (JP2) files used in Chronicling America