An Anonymous Patron writes “U.S. Vows 30M Newspaper Pages to Go on Net few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation’s capital.
The first of what’s expected to be 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922 will be available in 2006.
“Anyone who’s interested — teachers, students, historians, lawyers, politicians, even newspaper reporters — will be able to go to their computer at home or at work and at a click of a mouse get immediate, unfiltered access to the greatest source of our history,” said Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He announced the project in a speech at the National Press Club.”
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