30 million older American newspaper pages to go online
Real AudioThe federal government is promising that within a few years anyone with a computer will be able to see and search millions of newspaper pages from 1836 to 1922.
To see the same material right now, you have to pore through microfilm at the Library of Congress, local libraries and newspaper archives.
The first images should be ready by 2006.
The National Digital Newspaper Program is a joint project by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities to improve our understanding of American history.
Guest: Bruce Cole, chairman of the NEH
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