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Chronicling America: Expanding Digital Newspaper Archives in Hawaii

Learn about the National Digital Newspaper Program's expansion in Hawaii, with English-language newspapers from 1836 to 1922. Explore available titles and upcoming additions.

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Chronicling America: Expanding Digital Newspaper Archives in Hawaii

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  1. Chronicling AmericaHistoric American Newspapers The National Digital Newspaper Program in Hawaiʻi November 2010

  2. National DigitalNewspaper 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

  3. NDNP - Annual Expansion • More states (and territories) • More newspaper titles • More content

  4. Chronicling AmericaQuarterly Updates

  5. 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

  6. Chronicling America Hawaiʻi titles currently available • The Hawaiian Gazette (Honolulu, 1865-1916; online: 1877-1913) • The Saturday Press (Honolulu, 1880-1885) • Daily Bulletin (Honolulu, 1882-1894) • The Daily Honolulu Press (Honolulu, 1885-1886) • The Daily Herald (Honolulu, 1886-1887) • Evening Bulletin (Honolulu, 1895-1897) • The Independent (Honolulu, 1895-1905) • Austin’s Hawaiian Weekly (Honolulu, 1899-1900) • The Honolulu Republican (Honolulu, 1900-1902) • The Honolulu Times (Honolulu, 1902-1911) • The Democrat (Honolulu, 1910-1910)

  7. Still To Come • From 2008 - 2010 grant, awaiting upload • Hawaiian Star • For 2010 - 2011 grant • Completion of Hawaiian Gazette (currently online: 1877-1913)(adding on: 1865-1876, 1914-1916) • Hilo Tribune Herald

  8. Still To Comefor 2010-2011 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)

  9. Still To Comefor 2010-2011 grant • From US-administered Pacific (to be confirmed) • The Cablenews-American, 1902-1920 (Manila, Philippines) • O Le Faʻatonu, 1903-? (for NDNP, 1903-1922)(Pago Pago, Am. Sāmoa) • Guam News Letter, 1909-1922(Agaña, Guam)

  10. Still To Comefor 2010-2011 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 1836-1922 • in the English language (primarily English) • representing geographic and temporal diversity • representing cultural and political diversity • offering research value

  11. 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

  12. Chronicling AmericaSearch Strategies

  13. 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

  14. Project Staff: Joan Hori, project director Martha Chantiny, project coordinator Dore Minatodani Beth Tillinghast

  15. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

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