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hrough the National Digital Newspaper Program, organizations with historical US newspapers (such as libraries and archives) can apply for funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize 100,000 pages from the publications in their care. The resulting digital newspaper images are>. We asked Robin Pike, who coordinates the NDNP, about the project and the papers it’s helped digitized:

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