As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on building content from south- and border-Texas cities, includes new titles from Laredo and McAllen and additional issues to the previously digitized San Antonio Light. After being uploaded to Chronicling America, these newspapers will also go into the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on the Portal to Texas History.

The first titles to go online for this round include Laredo Daily News, showcasing a small number of issues from the late nineteenth century. We then have issues of the Laredo Weekly Times, from several years spanning the early twentieth century.  This first batch of digitized newspapers also includes some 1935 issues of The Laredo Times, a title that featured news in both English and Spanish. More issues from the Laredo Weekly Times and The Laredo Times will be added Chronicling America in the coming months.

Chronicling America currently provides over 20 million pages of digitized historic newspapers in 30 different languages from all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. You can find a list of previously digitized Texas newspapers on Chronicling America, as well as see when new titles and issues are added to Chronicling America here.