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Chronicling America

Library of Congress

Failing· checked 14 Nov 2026, 01:56 UTCNo keyBooks & media

Historic US newspapers 1736-1963 with OCR text, now served via loc.gov.

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Access
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Coverage
us
Updates
monthly
Formats
JSONOCR-TEXT
License
Public domain (US gov)
API base
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america
Tags
newspapers, history, ocr
Added
14 Nov 2026

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