‘Cannonba!!’ Blog Calls NewsInHistory.com ‘Fascinating’
Scott Mingus, editor of the Civil War blog “Cannonba!!” he maintains for the York Daily Record, did a lot of research recently using NewsInHistory’s archive of historical newspapers and was very pleased with the results. He wrote an enthusiastic review, involving research that began with his interest in the Civil War and then ranged far beyond: the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge by Gordon’s brigade in June 1863, the Knights of the Golden Circle, the Titanic, the Hindenburg, D-Day, the Apollo moon landing, and the Cincinnati Reds sweeping the Yankees in 1976. Talk about an eclectic historian! To read Scott’s review, click here.
I understand that when writing a blog, it’s necessary to show a picture and say a few words about yourself, so that people don’t think a nameless, faceless committee or advisory board is running the show. Here I am, a real person. My name is Tony Pettinato, and I live in Deerfield, Mass. I did my undergraduate studies in English at Oberlin College, my graduate work in Journalism at UC Berkeley, and have been a reporter for six newspapers. For the past fourteen years I have worked at NewsBank, six of those as a managing editor for the U.S. Congressional Serial Set project – NewsBank’s acclaimed effort that digitized and indexed twelve million pages of primary source documents – that gratified my lifelong interest in American history. And that led me to editing this history blog!
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