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Just One Day: Using a Newspaper Front Page as a Window to Inquiry and Research
June 10, 2025
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
This post is by Diana Laufenberg, Executive Director and Lead Teacher for Inquiry Schoo
Students might be accustomed to reading pages from significant dates in history, but one day of news from a random day can provide many avenues for questioning and research. I would love to give this page to students and see what they could figure out in 30 minutes.
If I were still in the classroom I might use a randomizer to generate a date and a year between 1890-1960 and send the students into Chronicling America to see what the country was talking about that day.
Students could look through local, regional, or more nationally focused papers. They might nominate articles for most random story, biggest national impact, strangest reporting, a story about something still relevant today, a story about something completely irrelevant today, something connected to a topic studied, something or someone they’ve never heard about before, or most striking advertisement.
Students might choose one article and see what they could discover about the people or events featured in it.
One could also choose a day before or after something historic happened, ask students to see what else made the news that day, and discuss how newspapers (or any media) decide what to give space to.
The Chronicling America homepage features a “100 years ago today” carousel from which students might select a paper.
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Harris & Ewing, photographer. Newspaper Boys. United States, [Between 1915 and 1923] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016885202/.July 22, 2025, Posted by: Colleen Smith
This post is part of a series taking a closer look at various resources to support teachers using the Library’s digital collections in their classrooms.
Chronicling America is one of many digital collection gems that the Library has to offer teachers and students. The collection gives users access to selected digitized newspapers published through 1963. For long-time users of Chronicling America, you may notice the website has a new look. While the format is new, your favorite tools have been preserved and augmented: You can download and view newspapers, as well as clip, save, and share a particular section or article.
Newspapers, as a type of primary source, help students imagine what it might have been like to live in a particular time or place: consuming media of different historical eras can help to slow down the big events of history and see how they were experienced in real time. Newspapers can also be a tool for teaching different text types, media literacy, and message crafting.
Quick Ideas for Teaching with Historical Newspapers
- Examine as type of informational text
- Student research about a time, place, or event
- Gaining more context about significant historical events
- Slow down to see big things happening in real time
- Seeing coverage of a scientific invention or innovation from the past
You can find even more ideas for how to use Chronicling America with students in these blog posts.
Navigating Chronicling America
There are several ways you can search Chronicling America’s collection of historic newspapers. A good place to start is in the “Collection Items,” which you can find on the Chronicling America homepage.
Selection from homepage of Chronicling America, Historic American NewspapersOnce in the collection, we recommend using some or all of the filters in the advanced search field. Depending on what you or your students are researching, you can narrow results through a keyword search, by location, ethnicity group, or by date. These search tips can be helpful to both teachers and students.
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Laura Weakly shares some RetroFuturism found in historic Nebraska newspapers: https://cdrhdev.unl.edu/log/2025/retrofuturism-chronamparty-science-fiction-in-nebraskas-historic-newspapers/
AnneTheWriterThe FREE #newspaper archive #ChroniclingAmerica is testing a Beta version with some great NEW features:
* You can now make clippings and save them as an image file. (Finally!)
* Search criteria are expanded, and much more customizable. There are even clickable maps.
* You can search newspaper #photos by caption and keywords (using #AI ).
* Articles can be instantly translated with #GoogleTranslate .
* Text can be copied directly from the article.
* Newspapers can be searched based on language, location, title, and more.
* They also have a database of newspaper titles NOT available on their site, but which are available at other libraries.
* Listings now include links to other types of items in the #LibraryOfCongress of possible interest or relevance.
YouTuber #AimeeCross shows how to find the Beta version and walks you through some of its best features.
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Flominator@Infrogmation Thanks. I had already tried #Newspapers.com and #ChroniclingAmerica (LOC), but I gave it another try searching for Hamburg as port of departure. Turns out, the ship was spelled PribilOw instead of #Pribislaw :
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015378/1851-06-27/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1770&index=0&rows=20&words=Pribislow&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=pribislow&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1
I also found her on the same day as "uncleared", whatever that may mean:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015378/1851-06-27/ed-1/seq-3/
CC: @Gordon 😉
Does anybody have a clue where to find the June 1851 arrival date in #NewOrleans mentioned in https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wiedow-10 .
I know about the Hamburg passenger list entry, but I'm struggling to source the arrival date. I also didn't have luck at #newspapers.com and #ChroniclingAmerica.
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Digital History BerlinOur next #DigitalHistoryOFK talk features Benjamin Lee from the University of Washington presenting his project #NewspaperNavigator. Using #MachineLearning technologies, he has extracted the visual content of over 16 million pages in #ChroniclingAmerica, creating an all-new dataset.
🔜 Join us on January 18th at 4:15 PM to learn more about this project and its research potentials.
ℹ️ Abstract (and access): https://dhistory.hypotheses.org/3286
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