Special thanks to Spencer Houghton, the NDNP graduate student assistant, for his help in editing this announcement.

UNT Libraries are pleased to announce that the National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress (LC) have selected us for an eighth, two-year cycle of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This award, which comes to us through the NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access, will provide access to an additional 100,000 pages of Texas history via digitized newspapers on Chronicling America.

For this round, we will ask our advisory board to select newspapers from amongst South Texas and Texas border titles, including from Eagle Pass, Del Rio, San Benito, and San Antonio, with the goal of showcasing Texas newspaper history up to 1963, depending on the recommendation of the NDNP-Texas advisory board. For the years we propose to digitize, ranging from 1920-1963, all cities saw significant changes in military expansion and the civil rights conversation, as the U.S. underwent recovery from both World Wars and the Great Depression.

In addition to including the newspapers on Chronicling America, titles will also be available on The Portal to Texas History through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP). All newspapers uploaded to Chronicling America and TDNP are freely accessible for research and education. Consequently, we will continue to inform teachers and students about the importance of using newspapers as a window into history.

Chronicling America is a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to build a nationwide, open-access repository of digitally accessible historic newspapers.