The Growth of Newspapers Across the U.S.: 1690-2011

This visualization plots over 140,000 newspapers published over three centuries in the United States. The data comes from the Library of Congress' "Chronicling America" project, which maintains a regularly updated directory of newspapers.

via www.stanford.edu
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