SNEWPapers Inaugural Blog Post!
A data engineer's effort to correctly segment Chronicling America at the article level, linking stories across pages and making them searchable by AI agents.
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How we built a research platform over 250 years of American newspapers, and what turns up when you go looking.
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Series
Decade by Decade: History as the Newspapers Told It
A few of the most interesting stories from each decade, told by the newspapers that printed them as they happened.
Latest: the 1770s
November 4, 2026
From Newspaper Search to Historical Investigation: What SNEWPapers AI Tools Can Do
Using SNEWPapers to Navigate the Library of Congress' Newspapers
Read itOctober 28, 2026
SNEWPapers vs American Stories
How accurate is SNEWPapers?
Read itOctober 14, 2026
Flight, Fear and Thunderbolts: 1793's Yellow Fever Epidemic in Real Time
Long forgotten boots on the ground reports
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