NewsInHistory.com Adds More Papers!

Submitted by tonyp on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 14:18

NewsInHistory.com will be continuously adding more content to its historical newspaper archive, both new titles as well as expanding the date ranges for titles we have already digitized. This current addition involves 23 newspapers from 15 states and the District of Columbia; 10 of these titles are new to our collection. A total of 11,750 issues have been added in this release. Here are the details:

California

California Gazette (Benecia). 1 issue: 1851 (new)

Colorado

Denver Mirror (Denver). 33 issues: 1874 to 1875 (new)

Connecticut

Constitution (Middletown). 20 issues: 1856 to 1857 (expansion)
New London Daily Star (New London). 120 issues: 1837 to 1858 (expansion)

District of Columbia

Reconstructionist (DC). 2 issues: 1866 (new)

Illinois

Chicago Times (Chicago). 77 issues: 1855 to 1856 (expansion)

Indiana

Wabash Courier (Terre Haute). 18 issues: 1840 to 1841 (expansion)

Louisiana

New Orleans Argus (New Orleans). 117 issues: 1828 to 1832 (new)

Maryland

American and Commercial Daily Advertiser (Baltimore). 3,722 issues: 1801 to 1820 (new)
Federal Republican (Baltimore). 66 issues: 1811 (expansion)
Weekly Civilian (Cumberland). 126 issues: 1859 to 1861 (expansion)

Montana

Montana Herold (Helena). 260 issues: 1893 to 1899 (expansion)

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Patriot (Concord). 545 issues: 1878 to 1890 (new)

New Jersey

Trenton State Gazette (Trenton). 602 issues: 1848 to 1850 (expansion)

New York

Albany Evening Journal (Albany). 1 issue: 1854 (expansion)
Morning Telegraph (New York). 509 issues: 1870 to 1879 (new)
New York Herald (New York). 50 issues: 1871 (expansion)
New York Herald-Tribune (New York). 527 issues: 1858 to 1877 (new)

Ohio

Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (Cincinnati). 2,065 issues: 1861 to 1876 (new)

Pennsylvania

National Gazette (Philadelphia). 1,558 issues: 1822 to 1841 (expansion)
Public Ledger (Philadelphia). 1,103 issues: 1840 to 1868 (expansion)

Rhode Island

Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal (Providence). 28 issues: 1820 to 1847 (new)

South Carolina

City Gazette (Charleston). 200 issues: 1826 (expansion)

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!