Update: Mississippi newspapers online

Last year, we wrote about the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) digitizing Mississippi Newspapers for inclusion in Chronicling America, a project with the Library of Congress to make newspapers from 1836 to 1922 in America accessible online.

There are now several Mississippi newspapers available for you to search, read, and download in Chronicling America. When the MDAH is finished with the project, you'll be able to see what was the big news of the day in 22 counties in Mississippi from 1836-1922.

This image below is part of an article from The Macon Beacon describing the shipwreck and sinking of the Titanic. Click on it to see the entire issue of that paper.

Image provided by Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Chronicling America

If you've never looked at the resources online at the Library of Congress (LOC), today might be a good day to try it!

Chronicling America, just one of the digital collections at the LOC, has digital copies of newspapers from 1836-1922 from cities around the US.

Although right now there aren't any Mississippi newspapers in this collection just yet, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History has just announced that they will be adding 100,000 pages of Mississippi newspapers to this collection.

Check out the news release here for more information about historic Mississippi newspapers coming soon to a computer near you!