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Introduction to the Historical Newspapers in Chronicling American at the Library of Congress

Website: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/

Video: http://youtu.be/FB3b9QWC-Og

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An investigation of the horseless carriage with historic newspapers 

1. Recommended Topics in Chronicling America >Horseless Carriages and Ford’s Model T (1895-1920) > Justice not charity 
2. Basic Page Search in Chronicling America 
3. Advanced Search in Chronicling America
4. Continuing research with resources at the Library of Congress Teachers Page 
5. Ask a Librarian at the Library of Congress  
6. Bonus:  Colorado Historic Newspapers
1. Featured Topics 

Hands on with historic newspapers 

• Find a topic of interest in Recommended Topics in Chronicling America and explore with what you just learned
• Do the same for a  topic of interest in the Featured Topics  on the Colorado Historic Newspapers site

• Edsitement Chronicling America Page: http://edsitement.neh.gov/what-chronicling-america
• NHD Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers Prize: http://www.nhd.org/SpecialPrizeinfo.htm
• Free software for working with JPEG 2000 (JP2) files used in Chronicling America
• Irfanview
• Download
• JPeg 2000 Plug-in 

Looking for resources about the Sand Creek Massacre  

1. All States
2. All Years (happened 11-29-1864)
3. Narrow to 1864-65
4. Third One  - Gen McCook on the Sand Creek Massacre
1. Daily Ohio statesman. (Columbus, Ohio), 22 Aug. 1865. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028645/1865-08-22/ed-1/seq-2/ >
2. May also look at the first one – talks about Black Kettle

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