MCP server exposing 1 tool for chronicling-america.
This URL is a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint over HTTP. Issue POST requests with a JSON-RPC body. Browsers and search crawlers land here on GET.
POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/chronicling-america/mcp
Content-Type: application/json
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}search_newspapers — Full-text search of digitized historical U.S. newspapers (~1690s–present) from the Library of Congress "Chronicling America" collection. Find primary-source newspaper coverage of any person, event, place, or topic in history — returns the newspaper, publication date, city/state, a link to the digitized page, and the page-scan image URL. Filter by date range and U.S. state. Example: search_newspapers({ query: "influenza epidemic", date_from: "1918", date_to: "1919", state: "oklahoma" }).Code samples (curl / TypeScript / one-click client install), schemas, and the live playground are on the pack page:
https://pipeworx.io/packs/chronicling-america/
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