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• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest July 11, 2019
  Hi! Have you tried the new By the People Activity Prototype? It allows you to find pages to work on in a different way. You only have until July 28th to check it out, so give it a whirl today. Then please take a few minutes to fill out this survey and let us know what you think! […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest June 26, 2019
  Suffrage marches on: join in! In June we launched four new Campaigns to celebrate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage. We also introduced new "Topic" functionality to allow us to group materials thematically.Check out our "Suffrage: Women Fight for the Vote" Topic, which brings together the papers of Mary Church Terrell, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest June 4, 2019
  "Suffrage: Women Fight For the Vote"  Today we're releasing the papers of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna E. Dickinson for you to transcribe and review, in celebration of the centenary of women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment. The struggle for women’s voting rights—considered the largest reform […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest May 28, 2019
  Hi! We have a lot of exciting things going on this week! We're celebrating your achievements on the "Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened" 500-page review challenge for Memorial Day. We're launching a new experimental prototype that will allow you to discover By the People pages and information in new ways, and we're celebrating Walt Whitman's […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest May 22, 2019
  We're on a roll Great work everyone! Collectively, volunteers have reviewed 145 pages out of the 500 we've challenged you to tackle between May 20th and May 28th. That's great progress in 3 days! Not to mention some folks have been transcribing pages too! There are only 17 pages not started, down from 273 a […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest May 20, 2019
  A 500 page review Challenge for Memorial Day This week, in the run up to Memorial Day, we challenge you to #MakeItMeaningful, by helping us review 500 pages from the “Civil War Soldiers: Disabled but not disheartened” campaign. This campaign features entries from the left-handed penmanship competition created by a reformer, poet, editor, and clergyman named William Oland […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest May 8, 2019
  Hello one and all,  We have a few interesting updates and opportunities for you to explore and enjoy this month.  More Letters to Lincoln By the People volunteers have transcribed 26,585 letters and completed (a.k.a reviewed) 4,662 of Lincoln pages in just over six months. Many of your transcriptions are published on loc.gov, and more will […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: "Whitman at 200" April 23, 2019
  Join early celebrations of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday with a Poetry Month Party! By the People launches our first new campaign tomorrow, April 24, with selections from his writings. The Library of Congress holds the world’s largest Whitman manuscript collection. “Walt Whitman at 200” will present several thousand pages of his writings, including poetry from […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress The Latest April 16, 2019
  New Material: Walt Whitman Campaign On April 24, 2019 at 4pm Eastern time, you can take part in a virtual transcribathon of Walt Whitman materials from the Library of Congress collections. We're releasing new material to celebrate National Poetry month, Walt Whitman's 200th birthday, and the half-birthday of By the People! The Whitman materials will […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update April 3, 2019
  Hello By the People people! We have some fun updates for you this week! Baseball news, improved how-to instructions, an invitation to join in the conversation, and some pretty impressive numbers. Read on! It's Outta here! A Branch Rickey home run Volunteers transcribed all 1,926 Branch Rickey baseball scouting reports in just four months! In March we […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Update: Women's History Month, Transcribathons, and a New Challenge March 21, 2019
  Celebrating Women's History Month!  Earlier this month we challenged you, our wonderful By the People volunteers, to complete 150 pages of both the Mary Church Terrell and Clara Barton campaigns. The challenge ran March 6th to 15th, and you smashed our goals! Friday, March 15th we were only six pages off from our Barton goal, with 1,191 pages […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: Help us improve! March 18, 2019
  We recently updated By the People (crowd.loc.gov) to make it easier to get started and review pages. Give it a try! Help us keep improving by completing this 3 minute survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PNJR3ZW By the People invites the public to explore, transcribe, review, and tag digitized Library collections as virtual volunteers to improve search, access, and computation […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Women's History Month and a quick survey March 6, 2019
  Let's complete 300 new pages for Women's History Month by March 15th Let's celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in the USA, by focusing on the lives and leadership of suffrage activists Mary Church Terrell and Clara Barton, whom you can read more about on the Campaigns and Projects pages. Can we complete 150 pages for […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest February 22, 2019
  Webinar Next Wednesday Join By the People Community Managers Wednesday, February 27, at 2:00 pm EST for a one-hour webinar overview. We'll discuss project development and goals and demonstrate transcription and review. Community managers will also highlight some of the amazing materials that have already been transcribed by virtual volunteers and take a sneak peek at new […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: The Latest February 7, 2019
  Updates: Friendlier review and more! You may have noticed a few changes to By the People this week. On Monday we released Concordia version 0.4.17, which includes improvements we’re really excited about.  Some highlights: Improved review workflow! When reviewing, you’ll see a new dialogue box when you “Accept” an item. After accepting you can keep reviewing by […]
• New Lincoln pages and your transcriptions on loc.gov January 18, 2019
  Hello! We've published the first batch of By the People transcriptions! That's right, your work is already searchable in the Library of Congress website. Less than three months after the launch of By the People, we have published 781 transcribed pages. There are actually several thousand other completed pages, but we started with this test batch. Browse […]
• We're open! January 4, 2019
  Happy 2019, one and all! We hope you had a restful and joyful turn of the year, and are ready to put your know-how to work on transcribing and reviewing documents on By the People. We're happy to say we've started adding your reviewed transcriptions back into the Library's website, and will send another email in […]
• Still Time for Last-Minute Giving December 31, 2018
  The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our […]
• Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 26, 2018
  The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in children to read more books and reflect on the power of books to change their lives Ignite thoughtful […]
• Crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress: 'Tis the season December 20, 2018
  ...for your incredible contributions to By the People (crowd.loc.gov)! In less than 2 months over 3,000 volunteers started work on over 20,600 transcriptions, including many two-page spreads. Of these 3,231 are fully transcribed and reviewed, and 15,978 await review. We are testing the process for bringing completed transcriptions to loc.gov, where they'll be searchable alongside the original images to […]

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers

• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 100 YEARS AGO: "Wilson Blocks Daylight Saving Appeal," The Evening World, July 12, 1919 July 12, 2019
  Daylight saving time went into effect in the United States on March 31, 1918 during World War I as part of the war effort and many thought it would end when the war ended. Farmers across the country petitioned to end national daylight saving time in 1919 but President Wilson vetoed the repeal stating it […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 75 Years Ago: “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND,â€� The Wilmington Morning Star, June 07, 1944 June 6, 2019
  Across the world on June 7, 1944, newspapers rushed to press with the first word on the Western Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in France. For days before, front pages in the homefront news were filled with word of Allied battles on all fronts with hints of an imminent invasion of the French […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate 15 Million Pages with Us! Find Out More and Join our Twitter #ChronAmParty Today (May 21)! May 21, 2019
  Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! (May 15) May 15, 2019
  Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have you made America’s favorite cookie recently? How about trying out this 1940 recipe from the Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)? Chop your own chocolate and read more about it! Follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate International Women's Day With Us! March 8, 2019
  Celebrate International Women's Day today with us and explore how change-making women in American history appeared in the contemporary news using the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection. Our most recent post in Headlines and Heroes highlights fifteen amazing American women, including Clara Barton, Ida B. Wells, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, of course, investigative […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 86 YEARS AGO: “Popular Popcorn,â€� The Midland Journal, February 17, 1933 January 18, 2019
  In honor of National Popcorn Day on Jan. 19, here’s a quick rundown from 1933 of some fun ways to incorporate more grains into your diet! There’s of course the traditional style of popcorn for snacking, “popped while you wait, with a generous pour of melted butter and a big shake of salt” according to […]
• Still Time for Last-Minute Giving December 31, 2018
  The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our […]
• Make a Year-End Gift to the Nation's Library December 26, 2018
  The Library’s resolution for 2019 is to offer more opportunities to engage lifelong learners like you with our unique treasures and programs. Make your gift before we close the books on 2018! Your gift can: Inspire curiosity in children to read more books and reflect on the power of books to change their lives Ignite thoughtful […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Join the National Digital Newspaper Program in 2019! Applications due Jan. 15, 2019 December 12, 2018
  from @NEHgov on Twitter: Be part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a digital resource of newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. Applications due Jan 15: http://1.usa.gov/1ye8EKz 
• Make Your Gift to the Nation's Library November 27, 2018
  The day has arrived—#GivingTuesday—a day when your gift makes a difference and a statement. The Library of Congress depends on donations from people like you to produce exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around the world with our unique collections, experts, and services. Gifts bring the Library […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 100 YEARS AGO: "Menu and Recipes for Your 'Victory' Thanksgiving Dinner," The Evening World, Nov. 26, 1918 November 21, 2018
  Just a few weeks after the the signing of the armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918, ending military action in World War One, Americans prepared to celebrate their traditional Thanksgiving with new appreciation for a "day of thankful prayer... and joyous feasting." Although still restricted by wartime rationing, the Evening World (New York, NY) […]
• Spark a Lifelong Adventure of Learning November 20, 2018
  This year is the second year the Library of Congress is participating in #GivingTuesday—a global giving movement. On Tuesday, November 27, we are asking you to make a gift to spark a lifelong adventure of learning. Your gift supports FREE exhibitions, events, programs, and activities that connect millions of people across the nation and around […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: 80 YEARS AGO: “Orson Welles – The All American Bogeyman,â€� Evening Star, Oct. 31, 1938 October 30, 2018
  On October 30, 1938, the radio-listening public was brought to near-hysteria by the evening broadcast narrated by 23-year old Orson Welles of an adaption of the H.G. Wells classic ‘War of the Worlds.” According to newspapers around the country the next day, the dramatization “threw the public into an uproar when listeners believed flocks of […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: NEH Announces 2018 NDNP Awards and University of Alabama Joins the Program! August 30, 2018
  Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced an additional $4.5 million in funding to institutions in 18 states to expand selection and digitization of U.S. historic newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), including first-time awardee University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.  Seventeen other participating institutions - Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and […]
• Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate another #ChronAmParty on Twitter today and go #BacktoSchool! August 21, 2018
  Let's celebrate another #ChronAmParty on Twitter today! We're going #BacktoSchool through Chronicling America, with stories on reading, writing, and, of course 'rithemetic, selected and tweeted by institutions participating in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Join us today and share your own discoveries! Follow us every 3rd Tuesday of the month on Twitter for a fun […]