See the Original Newspaper Headlines From 10 Major Moments in American History

  • The Call-Chronicle-Examiner. (San Francisco, Calif.), April 19, 1906. Front page news: The great San Francisco fire of 1906.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: University of California, Riverside; Riverside, CA
    1 of 10
  • The Salt Lake Tribune. (Salt Lake City, Utah), April 19, 1912. Front page news: The sinking of the Titanic.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: University of Utah, Marriott Library
    2 of 10
  • The American Union. (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]), July 4, 1861. Front page news: The Fourth of July, 1861, printed during the Civil War for the Union Army.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: West Virginia University
    3 of 10
  • The Commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.), June 1, 1919. Front page news: The debate over national women's suffrage.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
    4 of 10
  • Kansas Agitator. (Garnett, Kan.), June 29, 1893.Front page news: The panic of 1893 and populism.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: Kansas State Historical Society; Topeka, KS
    5 of 10
  • The Bemidji Daily Pioneer. (Bemidji, Minn.), Nov. 9, 1917. Front page news: Counties in Minnesota instituting prohibition.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN
    6 of 10
  • The Daily Kentuckian. (Hopkinsville, Ky.), July 6, 1898. Front page news: The Spanish-American War.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
    7 of 10
  • The Suffrage Daily News. (Helena, Mont.), Nov. 2, 1914.Front page news: The fight for women's suffrage in the state of Montana. Montana went on to elect the first woman to Congress.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. Image provided by: Montana Historical Society; Helena, MT
    8 of 10
  • Arizona Republican. (Phoenix, Ariz.), Feb. 14, 1912. Front page news: Admission the state of Arizona to the union.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
    9 of 10
  • National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)), Feb. 21, 1885.Front page news: Dedication of the Washington Monument.
    Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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By Lily Rothman

It took about eight years for Chronicling America, a database of historically significant American newspapers launched by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities, to log its 10 millionth newspaper page—not too long considering it took decades for all that news to happen.

The database, which is free and searchable online, announced on Wednesday that it had hit that milestone after scanning a whopping 1,800 newspapers from 1836 to 1922. “It really is a time capsule of life in America in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,” said program manager Deborah Thomas.

See a few of the most iconic moments above, from the sinking of the Titanic to a Civil War Fourth of July to women’s suffrage.

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Write to Lily Rothman at lily.rothman@time.com.

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