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What's New?Chronicling America is regularly updated with newly-digitized newspapers from contributors to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspapers are delivered in the form of batches, where each batch can contain one to many issues, from one or more newspaper titles. Recently loaded batches can be discovered on the Chronicling America Research Guide. More details about the batch can be discovered by clicking on the batch name link. California Eagle (Los Angeles, CA), 1913-1950. One of the longest-running African American newspapers. Charlotta Spears Bass, an advocate for civil rights and labor rights, owned and edited the newspaper from 1912-1951, making her one of the first African America women to publish a newspaper. The newspaper fought against Jim Crow policies like segregated schooling, housing discrimination, and job discrimination. It also campaigned against the Ku Klux Klan and D.W. Griffith’s movie The Birth of a Nation. Women’s Chronicle (Little Rock, AR), 1888-1893. Owned and operated by women, this witty newspaper supported temperance and women’s suffrage in Arkansas. Washington Daily News (Washington, DC) 1921-1945. A major daily newspaper in Washington, DC that featured Ernie Pyle, a columnist turned Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII war correspondent, as well as reporter Martha Strayer and illustrator H.M. Talburt. Issues from the 1920s were recently added for this title. San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) 1911-1937. Founded as the only Republican daily in largely Democratic Texas in the 1880s, the paper was one of the largest circulating newspapers in San Antonio until the 1980s. The long-running Light focused on local news, but it also included state and national coverage. Click here for more information.
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