Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers The National Digital Newspaper Program in Hawai ʻ i November 2010
National Digital Newspaper Program National Endowment for the Humanities Library of Congress State projects English language newspapers All states and D.C. – now to include territories 1836 – 1922
NDNP - Annual Expansion More states (and territories) More newspaper titles More content
Chronicling America Quarterly Updates June 2009Dec 2009June 2010Sept 2010 States Dates Papers Pages1,249,7471,729,8262,303,5122,692,369 HI Dates HI Papers2312 HI Pages12,60323,07260,66298,254
Newspaper Title Selection Process Advisory board Content criteria – Research value – Geographic representation – Temporal coverage – Additional criteria Technical criteria – Availability of microfilm – Technical quality of microfilm
Chronicling America Hawaiʻi titles currently available The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, ; online: ) The Saturday Press (Honolulu, ) Daily Bulletin (Honolulu, ) The Daily Honolulu Press (Honolulu, ) The Daily Herald (Honolulu, ) Evening Bulletin (Honolulu, ) The Independent (Honolulu, ) Austin’s Hawaiian Weekly (Honolulu, ) The Honolulu Republican (Honolulu, ) The Honolulu Times (Honolulu, ) The Democrat (Honolulu, )
Still To Come From grant, awaiting upload – Hawaiian Star For grant – Completion of Hawaiian Gazette (currently online: ) (adding on: , ) – Hilo Tribune Herald
Still To Come for grant From Hawaiʻi (to be confirmed) – The Garden Island (Kauaʻi) – Honolulu Star-Bulletin (Honolulu) – The Maui News (Maui) – The Polynesian (Honolulu) – Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commere (Honolulu) – Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu)
Still To Come for grant From US-administered Pacific (to be confirmed) – The Cablenews-American, (Manila, Philippines) – O Le Faʻatonu, 1903-? (for NDNP, ) (Pago Pago, Am. Sāmoa) – Guam News Letter, (Agaña, Guam)
Still To Come for grant From US-administered Pacific – OTHER TITLES? – Selection criteria up to now: Karen Peacock said so – Selection criteria now: from a US-administered area, during US administration between in the English language (primarily English) representing geographic and temporal diversity representing cultural and political diversity offering research value
article that includes one of our search terms but not both of them, and not as a phrase article with our search terms, AMERICAN SAMOA, as a phrase
Chronicling America Search Strategies Search TermsSearch Option Pages Retrieved SAMOA29,273 SAMOA NAVAL STATIONall of the words6,176 SAMOA NAVAL STATIONwithin 10 words of each other186 AMERICAN SAMOAall of the words24,418 AMERICAN SAMOAas a phrase119
Chronicling America Additional content – Topics in Chronicling America Annexation of Hawaii From Territory to Statehood – Historical essays for selected newspapers – General information for all newspapers – Exportable images
Project Staff: Joan Hori, project director Martha Chantiny, project coordinator Dore Minatodani Beth Tillinghast
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