About & privacy

100 Year Review is a daily newscast from exactly one hundred years ago. Each edition covers that date's news as if it were breaking right now, written from the newspapers of the day. We don't add hindsight. When an edition asks "what will the future hold?", those are the questions people were asking at the time.

Where it comes from

The stories come from public-domain American newspapers digitized by the Library of Congress in Chronicling America. Every story links to the newspaper page it came from, so you can read the original. American works published in 1926 or earlier are in the public domain.

The video at the top of each edition is a public-domain silent newsreel from the Internet Archive. It's a stand-in for the mood of the era, not footage of that day's events. The source and license are linked under the player. Regular sound newsreels started in 1927, and radio news is only a few years old in 1926.

Privacy

There are no ads, no tracking, no analytics, no cookies and no sign-ups. The site doesn't keep a visitor count.

The video player only loads from the Internet Archive (archive.org) after you press play. Their own privacy policy covers that. Links to the Library of Congress open their site.

Corrections

The old papers are read by machine, and the scans can be messy. If a name or number looks wrong, the linked page image is the final word.