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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Also, see the Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries, a searchable index to newspapers published in the United States since 1690, which helps researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.
Trying to keep afloat in a world-wide naval arms race, the U.S. launches the great USS Michigan on May 26, 1908, swiftly followed by the USS South Carolina in July of that same year. England sparked the race in 1906 when it introduced the “world’s most powerful battleship,” prompting Germany, Japan, the U.S., and a number of other countries to build increasingly large and more powerfully armed ships. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| February 10, 1906 | The battleship HMS Dreadnought is launched. |
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| November 15, 1906 | Japan launches the battleship Satsuma. |
| July 22, 1907 | Germany launches the SMS Nassau. |
| May 26, 1908 | The United States launches the USS Michigan. |
| August 20, 1910 | Italy launches the battleship Dante Alighieri. |
| July 24, 1910 | Austria-Hungary begins building the SMS Viribus Unitis. |
