Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
Grade
9-12
Lesson Duration
From the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress
“Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.”
Included are three eighteenth-century American newspapers -
Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser (1796-1800) advocated loyalty to the federal government (Federalist)
The National Gazette (1791–1793) was created at the request of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and promoted an Anti-Federalist viewpoint
The National Intelligencer and Washington advertiser (1800–1810) was the first to document the activities of Congress
Go to: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov