A PowerPoint presentation on how to incorporate Chronicling America's historic newspapers into the classroom. Examples of resources available for teachers and examples of History Day Vermont-related content is given.

1. Vermont Digital Newspaper Project

2.  Part of the
National Digital
Newspaper Program
 Digitizing historic
Vermont newspapers
between 1836-1922
Vermont Content Online:
• 59 Vermont titles
• 260,000 pages
• Every county
represented (except
Grand Isle)

3. Online tool to search
historic newspapers from
across the country.
8 million pages from
1836-1922 available to
search by text.
You can search, save,
download, print, and clip
articles for free.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

4.  Historical perspectives on international,
national and local themes, events, and
topics.
News as it happened, as it was perceived.
 Culture and times!
 Great tool for looking at leadership and
legacy at the local and national level.
Content-specific vocabulary & nonfiction,
primary source reading experience.
 Easy to use! Brings a historical primary
source to the modern audience with modern
tools.
Essex County herald.,
February 05, 1915, Image 5

5. Vermont-specific Content:
Vermont Digital Newspaper Project
Website:
library.uvm.edu/vtnp
Chronicling America:
Chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
or
ChroniclingAmerica.com

6. Vermont Digital Newspaper
Project Website
Educator Resource Page:
library.uvm.edu/vtnp/
?page_id=1904
Also, VTDNP has a:
 Pinterest
 Flickr
 Facebook
 Blog
 SlideShare

7. • Offered through the National
Endowment for the Humanities
• Nation-level prize in Junior and Senior
divisions
• Awarded to an outstanding entry in any
category that utilizes the newspaper
resources that are available on the
Chronicling America: Historic American
Newspapers website.
• Each content item from Chronicling
America (article, image, etc.) used for the
entry must be noted in the Primary
Sources section of the Annotated
Bibliography and follow proper NHD
citation guidelines for Web content.
Edsitement!
edsitement.neh.gov
Last Year’s Winners
Another
great website
for teachers!

8.  Keyword searches
 Simple search
 Advanced search
 All Digitized
Newspapers
 100 years ago
 Recommended Topics
 Likely students will need
to use only the simple
search.
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

9.  Could be a good place
for students to start.
 Important National
Events, People,
Inventions, Cultural
Trends
 Includes:
 Important Dates
 Suggested Search
Terms
 Sample Articles
 Vermont-specific Topics
in the works!
http://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/

10. We’ll learn two ways:
 Simple Search
 Advanced Search
Important: The search
technology searches the
newspaper text, so think
about historical language!

11. Pick a state or
search all
states.
Pick a year range or
specific year.
Remember, years
are between
1836-1922.
Enter a search word(s) here.

12. The Search Pages tool will
scan the newspaper text to
find results.
1. Scroll down to
find Vermont
2. Keep
the year
range as
it is
3. Type in the word: library 4. Click on Go.

13. c
45,506
results!!
“Library”
highlighted in
red on the
newspaper
page.
The search tool searches the text to find the word/phrase you entered. In this case, “library.”

14. Click on these
two buttons to
zoom in and out.
Or, scroll with
your mouse or
fingers.
Click on
this to go
to full
screen.
This shows which
page of the
newspaper is
shown. Shown here
is page 3. Use the
arrows to go from
page to page.
Use these arrows
to browse
surrounding
newspaper issues.

15. 1.Zoom in to something you are interested
in clipping.
2. Click on the scissor tool.
3.You can then print or save the image.
The red box shows
what will be clipped.

17.  United States Representative
(1855-1867) and Senator from
Vermont (1867-1898)
 One of the founders of the
Republican Party.
 Morrill Tariff of 1861: Reception
was mixed. Legacy?
 Morrill Act 1862 (Land Grant
College Act): established federal
funds and land for colleges in
each state.
 Keywords: Senator Morrill, Justin
Morrill, Morrill Tariff, Morrill Act,
Land Grant.
 Limit years depending on topic.
 Could search state- or nation-wide
content.
The Jasper
weekly
courier.,
Indiana,
February 26,
1862, Image
1

18.  Essential Questions: What was the
response to the tariff of 1861? How
is this an example of leadership?
What was the immediate legacy?
 Enter the advanced search.
 Let’s split up into investigating
north, west, and south newspapers.
What about international
responses?
 Groups report in 5 minutes.

19.  James P. Taylor (1872-1949)
 Founder of Green Mountain
Club (1909)
 Long Trail built between 1910-
1930, oldest long-distance
walking trail in the country.
 Could do a project on Taylor or
the Green Mountain Club
The Bennington
evening banner., July
30, 1914, Page 5

20. Try a simple search first, with
keywords.
Could limit to Vermont, years
1900-1922.
Search words to try in
combination, proximity, or as
phrases:
Taylor, Long Trail, Green
Mountain Club, J.P. Taylor,
James Taylor.

21.  Edna Louise Beard (1877-1928)
was the first woman elected to
the VT House of Reps. and VT
Senate for Orange County (1921-
1922).
Try a simple search first.
 Can limit the years to 1919-1922.
 Sort results by date to get a
chronology.
 Could limit by newspapers:
United Opinion
 Keywords: woman, legislator,
Vermont, Edna Beard, Edna L.
Beard, Miss Beard, Orange,
Representative Beard

22.  Hartness (1861-1934) was an
inventor, astronomer, aviator,
and VT Governor (1921-1923)
 Built the first municipal landing
field in Vermont (1919)
 Started first Vermont flight
school in 1921.
 President of the Aero Club of
Vermont (1916).
 Keywords: Hartness, aviation,
James Hartness, aero, Governor
Hartness.

23.  Barre’s granite industry
brought in Italian stone-cutters
at the turn of the
twentieth century.
 Barre became a center of
labor radicalism, anarchist
ferment.
 Luigi Galleani, one of the
most notable anarchists, lived
in Barre from 1903-1911.
 Newspapers: Cronaca
Sovversiva (Italian)

24. This PowerPoint
will be posted on
our website and
available for
download.
Contact us:
library.uvm.edu/vtnp
Erenst Anip, Project Librarian:
eanip@uvm.edu
Karyn Norwood, Digital Support:
knorwood@uvm.edu
Phone: 802-656-0819