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American history online.


Within a few years, anyone with an Internet connection will be able to access millions of pages from old U.S. newspapers.

In 2006, the National Digital Newspaper Program will make available the first batch of what will eventually include 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922, according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

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 USA Today USA Today

National U.S. daily general-interest newspaper, the first of its kind. Launched in 1982 by Allen Neuharth, head of the Gannett newspaper chain, it reached a circulation of one million within a year and surpassed two million in the 1990s.
. Currently, the only way to view old papers is to pore through thousands of microfilm reels at the Library of Congress, regional libraries, and newspaper offices.

The National Endowment for the Humanities National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

U.S. independent agency. Founded in 1965, it supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
 is working on the project with the Library of Congress. The span of the joint project is limited because the typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif
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  • Aldus
  • Antiqua
  • Aster
  • Baskerville
  • Bell (Monotype) Didone classification serif type deisgned by Richard Austin, 1788
  • Bembo
  • Benguiat
 printers used before 1836 are too difficult for optical scanners to read, and because copyright restrictions apply to papers published after 1923; however, USA Today reports that the Library of Congress is undertaking a separate, broader project to preserve records of U.S. newspapers dating from the late 1600s.

The Library of Congress has already compiled a small sample. It has digitized issues of the U.S. military newspaper "Stars and Stripes Stars and Stripes

nickname for the U.S. flag. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 8567]

See : America
" published during World War I, February 1918 to June 1919.
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Title Annotation:News, Trends & Analysis; newspaper and periodical collections
Author:Swartz, Nikki
Publication:Information Management Journal
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Date:Mar 1, 2005
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