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Here's some great news from Louisa Trott and the Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project...

Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator.,
November 11, 1863
Image from the Library of Congress'
Chronicling America website.

The Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project has received funding for the next two years! That means another 100,000 pages of historical Tennessee newspapers coming to your computer screen!

The National Endowment for the Humanities made the announcement last week. Other awardees are: Arizona, Hawaii, Iowa*, Michigan*, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina*, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington. (*new in 2012)

We are thrilled to have the opportunity to take this project into its second phase. The Advisory Group will meet in the fall to select the titles for digitization. The time period we plan to cover in phase two will begin circa 1880, where phase one ended. The end date hasn’t yet been determined. Our only limitations are the program’s 1922 cut-off date (anything later is subject to copyright laws), and the 100,000 page limit.

Read more from the Tennessee Newspaper Digitization Project, and from the TNGenWeb Project.