The Colorado State Library, in partnership with the Wyoming State Library and the University of Wyoming, have just announced the launch of the Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers database. The Plains to Peaks Historic Newspapers online collection combines the content of the CHNC [Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection] and the Wyoming Newspapers collection for simple one-stop discovery. This […]
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Newspapers
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On this website, the first set of free online links to U.S. historical newspapers was published in February 2014. Updates were added in June 2015, December 2015, June 2016, February 2017, July 2017, December 2017, March 2018, June 2018, November 2018, March 2019, July 2019, December 2019, and July 2020. This final update of 2020 adds […]
265 new and updated Free Historical Newspaper Links have been added to the Western States’ free “newspaper link lists”: These were all updated in November/December 2020, and represent additions from the past 6 months. There now is a total of 5,555 titles for the Western states. Just click on your chosen state below and the […]
The “Search Multiple Historic Newspaper Collections All At Once” website, elephind.com has just published an update that includes many more items and issues from 2 updated collections: (from the October, 2020 Elephind Newsletter): Updated Newspaper Collections The Lehigh University Brown and White archive – A digital archive of the Lehigh University Student newspaper containing 6,617 issues comprising 60,926 pages. Hoji […]
The “Search Multiple Historic Newspaper Collections All At Once” website, elephind.com has just published an update that includes many more items and issues from 2 updated collections: (from the August, 2020 Elephind Newsletter): Updated Newspaper Collections Hoosier State Chronicles – operated by the Indiana State Library, this is collection of Indiana’s historic newspapers contains over 1 million pages. […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has just announced the 2020 awards for funding for additions to Chronicling America: Maine State Library, Augusta, ME Award: $210,270 Digitization of 100,000 pages of Maine newspapers, dating from 1785 to 1963, as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program. Rutgers, the State University of […]
Note: This post has been replaced with a more current list of Advantage Archives collections. Please visit 120 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives For the last 3 years I have been tracking the online collections made available by the Advantage Archives (formerly Advantage Preservation) company, who has contracted with several hundred libraries […]
One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of information. They provide death dates and locations, funeral and cemetery information, and more importantly – information about the relatives of the deceased’s family and extended family. This family name information is often not found […]
The Brooklyn Public library just announced the successful digitization, and availability online of student newspapers from 55 Brooklyn area High Schools. There are a total of 925 issues – some have short runs, but many have dozens of issues. You can read the full story at Get Some Teen Perspective With Digitized High School Newspapers From […]
