Connecticut Newspapers: Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project

The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is an initiative of the Connecticut State Library. The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Connecticut State Library four two-year National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grants to digitize historically significant Connecticut newspapers for the Library of Congress database Chronicling America. To date the Connecticut State Library has been awarded over $1 million in funds to digitize 100,000 pages of microfilmed newspaper per grant cycle. The current cycle, our fourth, runs from September 1, 2019 to August 31, 2021.

The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project (CDNP) has selected the following titles to be digitized during the 2019-2021 grant cycle:

• The Litchfield County Post 1826-1829
• The Litchfield Enquirer 1829-1881 (a continuation of the Litchfield County Post)
• La Sentinella 1931-1948 (this completes the entire run of this title started in the last grant round)
• The Waterbury Democrat 1931-1946 (this expands coverage of previous Waterbury Democrat papers digitized)

All newspapers digitized during our first three grant cycles are available online in the Chronicling America database.

The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has received a fourth grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to continue to digitize historically significant Connecticut newspapers through the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) over the next two years. Following the NDNP guidelines, the grant will allow Connecticut to digitize another 100,000 pages of newspapers published in the state between 1690 and 1963. An advisory board will select the newspapers to be scanned.

Demonstrations of the newspaper databases can be arranged for your classroom, library, or professional association.

The Connecticut State Library's Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is looking for teachers, teachers-in-training, and graduate students who are interested in using our historic newspapers to create lesson plans and/or curricula that meet the standards of the Common Core.

Sample Topics in Chronicling America (alpha list)

Sample Topics by Subject

Sample Topics by Date

Sample Lesson Plans Using Chronicling America