The Library of Congress hosted an online conference for teachers in the fall of 2016. One of the featured presentations of that conference was Teaching With Historical Newspapers. Chronicling America was featured in the presentation. You can watch the recording embedded listed below to find out how to browse the Chronicling America collection and select up some pointers for integrating the papers into your practice.

The U.S. News Map is based on the Chronicling America paper collection hosted by the Library of Congress. You can then choose an article from the list and read it on the Chronicling America website where you can likewise download a copy of the post.

In this brief video I supply a demonstration of how to use the U.S. News Map to find historical news article.

The Chronicling America collection consists of millions of copies of paper pages printed in the United States in between 1789 and 1963. You can read, download, and print copies of any page that you discover in the Chronicling America collection.