Chronicling America API

Overview

Open programmatic access to information about historic American newspapers (1690-present) and select digitized newspaper pages (1880-1922). Returns results in Atom or Linked Data via RDF. Searching newspaper pages is also possible via OpenSearch. No API key or registration needed.
Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).