The Library of Congress Newspaper and Current Periodicals Reading Room has compiled a wide range of topics related to 19th and 20th century American History, from newspaper articles that can be found in Chronicling America: American Historic Newspapers. Currently, there are more than 50 topics, ranging from articles on the Baseball World Series (1903-1910) to Ellis Island (1890-1907) and eclectic topics such as the apparent Ping Pong Craze at the turn of the 20th century.
For instance, take a look at the topic on Butch Cassidy, aka Robert LeRoy Parker, the infamous outlaw of the West. Important Dates related to Butch Cassidy are provided, as well as Suggested Search Strategies that will help searchers retrieve optimal results. Suggested Search terms, such as Wild Bunch, outlaw, bandit, and robbery are provided, and they offer recommendations on narrowing the Search Date between 1889 and 1910, when results for Butch Cassidy will be most relevant. And finally a sampling of articles about Butch Cassidy have been gathered for easy browsing on this topic.
Here is the current list of topics on the Topics in Chronicling America page. You can find Topics in Chronicling America by going to the Chronicling America homepage, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. Look for the Topics in Chronicling America link under the Working with Chronicling America heading at the bottom of the page.
- The Anarchist Movement (1886-1920)
- The Annexation of Hawaii (1887-1898)
- Baseball’s Modern World Series (1903-1910)
- Billy Sunday, Evangelist (1891-1919)
- Bloomer Girls Women’s baseball. (1897-1909)
- Booker T. Washington (1895-1915)
- Brooklyn Bridge (1883-1920)
- Butch Cassidy (1889-1913)
- Clara Barton (1881-1904)
- Comic Strips (1899-1908)
- The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906)
- Early Cinema (1882-1909)
- Ellis Island (1890-1907)
- Football Reform (1905-1906)
- From Territory to Statehood:
- Alaska and Hawaii (1897-1910)
- The Northern West (1882-1907)
- The Southwest (1893-1910)
- The West (1890-1907)
- Galveston Flood (1900)
- Jack Johnson vs. James J. Jeffries (1910)
- Jack the Ripper (1888-1891)
- The Kidnapping of Ellen Stone (1901-1902)
- The Kidnapping of Ion Perdicaris (1904-1907)
- Leo Frank (1913-1950)
- Nikola Tesla (1894-1915)
- Nineteenth Amendment. The vote for women. (1890-1920)
- Orchidelirium (1885-1905)
- Oscar Wilde (1881-1910)
- The Panama Canal (1889-1914)
- Patent Medicines (1902-1909)
- Ping-pong craze (1900-1902)
- Pope Leo VIII’s Death & Election of Pious X (1903-1914)
- Presidential Administrations:
- Cleveland (1885-1994)
- Garfield (1880-1883)
- The Garfield Assassination (1881-1882)
- McKinley (1897-1901)
- The McKinley Assassination (1901)
- Roosevelt (1901-1912)
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Africa Expedition (1909-1910)
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet (1907-1909)
- Presidential Election. McKinley (1896)
- Pullman Porters (1894-1910)
- Race to the North Pole (1909)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904-1906)
- San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
- The Sinking of the Maine (1898)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Stanford White Murder “trial of the century” (1906-1908)
- Titanic, the Building of (1908-1910)
- Train Wreck in Washington DC (1906)
- World War I Battleships (1906-1910)
- Yoga (1905-1918)
- Yosemite National Park (1855-1916)
