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American Republican and Baltimore Daily Clipper, July 4, 1845. Source: The Library of Congress, Chronicling America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Maryland Library system has received a $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing historic Maryland Newspapers.\u00a0 The “Historic Maryland Newspapers Project” was first awarded a grant in 2013 to digitize 100,000 pages of newsprint between 1826 and 1922.\u00a0 About 86,000 pages are now available on the Library of Congress database, Chronicling America.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full press release.<\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to go to Chronicling America.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Maryland Library system has received a $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue digitizing historic Maryland Newspapers.\u00a0 The “Historic Maryland Newspapers Project” was first awarded a grant in 2013 to digitize 100,000 pages of newsprint between 1826 and 1922.\u00a0 About 86,000 pages are now available on the Library…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nUniversity of MD LIbraries Receive Funding for Phase 2 of Newspaper Digitization Project - Mike's History Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I use this blog as a place to share my experiences while practicing the history craft. 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