Historic Maryland Newspapers Project, Phase 6

FAIN: PJ-293421-23

University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD 20742-5141)
Pamela Annette McClanahan (Project Director: January 2023 to present)

Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maryland newspapers, published prior to 1963, as part of the state’s continuing participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). This phase would focus on papers from the colonial period and early nineteenth century, the Jewish Times, and titles covering Prince George’s County in the 1940s and ’50s.

The UM Libraries requests a supplemental grant to digitize an additional 100,000 pages of newspaper content for the National Digital Newspaper Program from September 2023 through August 2025. During the previous five rounds of funding, the project digitized 500,000 pages including English, German, Polish, Czech, and Italian titles from across the State of Maryland dating from 1727 to 1963. The next project phase will seek to provide researchers with newspapers that share the perspective of underrepresented groups including the Jewish community in Baltimore and African Americans in Prince Georges County and Baltimore, as well as some of the earliest extant titles of the state, spanning 1745 to 1963, and providing content covering local concerns and national or international issues.