The Kept Newspaper in Puck (1907). Samuel D. Ehrhart, Illustrator. Library of Congress.
HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS
In my capacity as a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, I oversee the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between the Library of Congress and the NEH to produce Chronicling America. For a number of years now, I have worked with a collaborative of NDNP partners across the country to produce the Race and Ethnicity Keyword Thesaurus for Chronicling America.
Newspapers Coming off of the Press (1936). Harris & Ewing, photographer. Library of Congress.
PUBLICATIONS
I blog about historical newspapers and their remediation in digital environments here.
“The Unfree Press in the Revolutionary Age, or How to Read an Eighteenth-Century Newspaper” in Cambridge History of the American Revolution edited by Marjolie Kars, Michael McDonnell, and Andrew Schocket. Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).
“Critical Cataloguing and the Serials Archive: The Digital Making of ‘Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print’ ” Archive Journal (November 2019). Co-authored with Lindsay DiCuirci.
