HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

In my capacity as a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, I oversee the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the NEH to produce Chronicling America. For a number of years now, I have worked with a collaborative of NDNP partners across the country to produce the Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America.

The Kept Newspaper in Puck (1907). Samuel D. Ehrhart, Illustrator. Library of Congress.

Newspapers Coming off of the Press (1936). Harris & Ewing, photographer. Library of Congress.

PUBLICATIONS

I blog about historical newspapers and their remediation in digital environments here.

“The Unfree Press in the Revolutionary Age, or How to Read an Eighteenth-Century Newspaper” in Cambridge History of the American Revolution edited by Marjolie Kars, Michael McDonnell, and Andrew Schocket. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

“Critical Cataloguing and the Serials Archive: The Digital Making of ‘Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print’ ” Archive Journal  (November 2019). Co-authored with Lindsay DiCuirci.