National Digital Newspaper Program Update

Since August 2019, the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) has been at work on our second round of participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant. The program is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC) to “develop an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.”

As Georgia’s representative in the program, the DLG coordinates with the NEH, the LC, the Georgia Archives, and vendor partners both domestic and international to digitize some of the state’s most historically significant newspapers. Last year, an advisory board comprised of archivists, genealogists, historians, humanities professionals, librarians, and journalists selected thirteen Georgia newspaper titles for digitization as part of the NDNP grant. The titles listed below will be digitized and made available over the next six months on both the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America website and the DLG’s Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. The linked titles have already been made available online:

Americus Times-Recorder, 1900-1924 – Chronicling America, Georgia Historic Newspapers

Atlanta Constitution, 1887-1903

Atlanta Georgian, 1912-1914

Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal, 1901-1920

Atlanta Tri-Weekly Journal, 1920-1925

Athens Republique, 1921-1924 – Georgia Historic Newspapers

Golden Age, 1906-1915

Jeffersonian, 1907-1917

People’s Party Paper, 1892-1898 – Georgia Historic Newspapers

Savannah Tribune, 1886-1888 – Georgia Historic Newspapers

Trench and Camp, 1917-1919 – Georgia Historic Newspapers

Watson’s Weekly Jeffersonian, 1907

Weekly Jeffersonian, 1907

During our previous NDNP grant cycle, the DLG digitized an additional 110,000 historical newspaper pages between 2017 and 2019. Those newspaper issues are freely available to the public on both the Chronicling America and Georgia Historic Newspapers websites. The following titles were digitized as part of the grant: