January Addition: NewsInHistory Adds More Papers!

Submitted by tonyp on Fri, 01/21/2011 - 13:25

NewsInHistory is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive—titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges and number of issues for titles already in our archive. New titles are indicated by an asterisk (*). This current addition involves 26 newspapers from 18 states. A total of 15,513 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 986 issues: 1977 to 1992

Arkansas

Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock). 1 issue: 1868

Connecticut

Republican Farmer (Bridgeport). 35 issues: 1858 to 1865

Georgia

Augusta Chronicle (Augusta). 165 issues: 1878 to 1889

Illinois

Centralia Sentinel (Centralia). 1 issue: 1864

Louisiana

Times-Picayune (New Orleans). 35 issues: 1906 to 1911
Times-Picayune (New Orleans). 1130 issues: 1966 to 1988

Massachusetts

National Aegis (Worcester). 7 issues: 1849 to 1851
Springfield Union (Springfield). 9800 issues: 1963 to 1987

Michigan

Jackson Citizen (Jackson). 2 issues: 1893 & 1902
Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson). 739 issues: 1869 to 1917
Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo). 2 issues: 1895

Mississippi

Daily Commercial (Vicksburg). 1 issue: 1877

New Jersey

Trenton Evening Times (Trenton). 328 issues: 1916 to 1917

New York

Commercial Advertiser (New York). 1 issue: 1825
New-York Daily Advertiser (New York). 1 issue: 1826
Spectator (New York). 79 issues: 1822 to 1823
Spectator (New York). 1 issue: 1832

Ohio

Greene County Journal* (Xenia). 18 issues: 1863 to 1864
Plain Dealer (Cleveland). 46 issues: 1870 to 1895
Plain Dealer (Cleveland). 167 issues: 1923 to 1989

Oregon

Oregonian (Portland). 120 issues: 1926 to 1973

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia). 39 issues: 1851 to 1854
Sunday Mercury (Philadelphia). 8 issues: 1865

Texas

Cleburne Morning Review * (Cleburne). 22 issues: 1911 to 1916
Dallas Morning News (Dallas). 227 issues: 1981 to 1982

Vermont

St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans). 220 issues: 1901 to 1922

Virginia

Alexandria Gazette (Alexandria). 1294 issues: 1826 to 1854

Washington

Seattle Daily Times (Seattle). 38 issues: 1952 to 1969

To see our complete Title List, click here.

About the Editor

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!

P.S. This picture shows me in my personal sanctuary: my home library. There are over two dozen used-book stores within 20 minutes of my house – nirvana for a bibliophile!