Chronicling America: "Turning Points in History"

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    • Picture courtesy Freepix and Vecteezy



    • This month SKCGS celebrates FIVE years of blogging!

  • We've covered many topics from basic techniques to more involved methodology.  Members have contributed marvelous family stories and pictures.  You have truly made this your blog!

  • Several of our blogs have featured online resources, either as a topic or as a source of information.  One of our more frequent of these is "Chronicling America", the free online digital newspaper collection site at the Library of Congress. 

  • The Library of Congress has programs aimed at middle and high school students as part of their National History Day competition.  One of the resources for research is, of course, Chronicling America and LOC is presenting:

  • Chronicling America: "Turning Points in History"

  • Wednesday, September 6, 2023
    1 - 2 pm EDT

  • Explore Turning Points in History and learn to use Chronicling America, a freely-available collection of historic American newspapers at the Library of Congress for research in this year's National History Day theme, "Turning Points in History." 

    Join Reference Librarian, Amber Paranick and Digital Conversion Specialist, Mike Saelee for a presentation on Chronicling America, its search interface, how to navigate the challenges of working with historic newspapers as primary sources, and additional resources to assist students and educators in National History Day research. Chronicling America is jointly sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

  • Register in advance.

  • Cover: https://nhd.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/NHD-2024-Theme-Book-FINAL-UPDATED-web.pdf


  • This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com.  It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.

  • ExternaIt will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. If you encounter problems with your registration, please contact ndnptech@loc.gov.

  • Be sure to take this opportunity to learn how to use this ever-growing resource!

MaryLynn Strickland    


Comments

  1. ValorieSeptember 6, 2023 at 4:19 PM

    For those of you who were unable to attend the session this morning, here is some information from the Zoom chat: 

    The slides for today’s presentation are available now at: https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/guidelines/docs/2023_ChroniclingAmerica-NHD.pdf The recording will be available in the Library's Event Videos collection in the coming weeks. See: https://www.loc.gov/collections/event-videos/ 

    Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America https://edsitement.neh.gov/media-resources/race-and-ethnicity-keyword-thesaurus-chronicling-america 

    Subscribe to the Chronicling America email list for updates on the collection as well as news on the upcoming new interface. https://www.loc.gov/subscribe/#newspapers 

    https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-topics 

    Map and Timeline: https://www.loc.gov/ndnp/data-visualizations/ 

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