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He’s a forgotten American hero now, one whose legacy does not shine as brightly as Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart. However, aviation pioneer Wiley Post was every inch the hero when 50,000 excited fans thronged New York’s Floyd Bennett Field on July 22, 1933, to greet Post as he came in for a landing, the first person to fly solo around the world. read more...

NewsInHistory.com 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. This current addition, our second in July, involves 29 newspapers from 20 states. A total of 12,606 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 588 issues: 1980 to 1983

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NewsInHistory.com 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. This current addition involves 34 newspapers from 22 states. A total of 17,048 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 1183 issues: 1978 to 1981

Arkansas read more...

When Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the Civil War was essentially over. There were still remnants of Confederate armies scattered throughout the South, but they followed Lee’s example and surrendered in April and May. The last Confederate army to give up the fight was a force of Cherokees led by General and Chief Stand Watie, who surrendered at Fort Towson in the Indian Territory on June 23, 1865. read more...

Many people think the Civil War ended when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. However, Lee was in charge of only one army, the Army of Northern Virginia. The South had several other armies, and they surrendered one by one throughout April and May. Surprisingly, the last Confederate army to surrender in the Civil War was not made up of Southern whites; it was the Cherokee army of General and Chief Stand Watie, whose troops gave up the fight on June 23, 1865, at Fort Towson in the Indian Territory. read more...

NewsInHistory.com 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. This current addition involves 32 newspapers from 21 states. A total of 16,521 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 1033 issues: 1970 to 1978

Alaska

Daily Record-Miner (Juneau). 28 issues: 1911 read more...

NewsInHistory.com 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. This current addition involves 42 newspapers from 24 states; 3 of these titles are new to our collection. A total of 12,952 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 802 issues: 1974 to 1976

Alaska read more...

NewsInHistory.com 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. This current addition involves 15 newspapers from 14 states. A total of 15,480 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Alabama

Mobile Register (Mobile). 797 issues: 1972 to 1974

Alaska read more...