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Montana Digital Newspaper Project

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Which Montana newspapers are available online? (Map)

Check out this map with links to the digitized papers.

 

Newspapers digitized by the Montana Historical Society (List)

MHS is digitizing 300,000 pages of Montana newspapers, 1864-1922, and adding them to the web site Chronicling America.

Montana papers available on Chronicling America.

 

Newspapers digitized by other Montana organizations (List)

Other libraries around the state are digitizing their community newspapers, both historical and more current.

 


Frequently asked questions

 

How do you decide which Montana papers to digitize? 

We are directed by a Selection Advisory Board made up of historians, educators and journalists. They go through a detailed selection process that includes factors like broad geographic representation, adequate temporal coverage, and research value. Learn more.  

 

Why don't you digitize ALL of Montana's historical newspapers? 

We wish we could. Based on our experience in the NDNP program, we estimate that digitizing all of the Society's newspaper holdings would keep two full-time employees busy for approximately 150 years! However, other institutions around Montana are digitizing their own hometown newspapers. See a list here. 

 

Will you ever digitize more recent newspapers? 

Any newspaper issue published before January 1923 is out of copyright and can be freely reproduced. The National Digital Newspaper Program funds digitization of pre-1923 papers only.  Learn more. 

 

Is anyone besides the MHS digitizing Montana newspapers? 

Yes! A number of libraries around the state are digitizing historical issues of their local newspapers.  To see a list, click here.

 

Is there a list of all newspapers ever published in Montana?

Yes. It's called A Union List of Montana Newspapers in Montana Repositories and it is available as a searchable PDF. Click here to open the PDF file. (It is large; please be patient.)

 

Are other U.S. states digitizing historical newspapers? (Absolutely!)

The NDNP program includes newspapers from 36 states and Puerto Rico. Those that have not yet joined are: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado,  Delaware, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island,  Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

  


Contact us

Christine (Tina) Kirkham, Project Manager, 406-444-0203

Natasha Hollenbach, Project Assistant, 406-444-7428

 


 

This project is funded by

the National Endowment for the Humanities through the National Digital Newspaper Program

 

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