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"The government promises anyone with a computer will have access within a few years to millions of pages from old newspapers, a slice of American history to be viewed now only by visiting local libraries, newspaper offices or the nation’s capital.

"The first of what’s expected to be 30 million digitized pages from papers published from 1836 through 1922 will be available in 2006.

"Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, said the National Digital Newspaper Program is to further the founding fathers’ belief that knowledge of history was a necessity for government by the people."

Carl Hartman. U.S. Vows 30M Newspaper Pages To Go On Net. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Nov. 16, 2004.

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