October Addition: NewsInHistory Adds More Papers!
NewsInHistory is continually adding more content to our historical newspapers 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 23 newspapers from 17 states. A total of 4,183 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:
Connecticut
Columbian Register (New Haven). 36 issues: 1836 to 1876
Georgia
Augusta Chronicle (Augusta). 565 issues: 1881 to 1917
Idaho
Idaho Register (Idaho Falls). 18 issues: 1887 to 1916
Louisiana
Times-Picayune (New Orleans). 591 issues: 1840 to 1906
Maine
Portland Advertiser (Portland). 1 issue: 1833
Maryland
Baltimore American (Baltimore). 2 issues: 1903 & 1904
Massachusetts
Boston Courier (Boston). 3 issues: 1844 to 1845
Salem Register (Salem). 1 issue: 1865
Springfield Union (Springfield). 383 issues: 1982 to 1984
Michigan
Jackson Citizen Patriot (Jackson). 604 issues: 1870 to 1912
Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo). 48 issues: 1896 to 1906
New Jersey
Trenton Evening Times (Trenton). 2 issues: 1920
New York
Commercial Advertiser (New York). 648 issues: 1851 to 1875
New York Herald (New York). 1 issue: 1875
Spectator (New York). 44 issues: 1823 to 1844
Ohio
Cincinnati Daily Gazette (Cincinnati). 1 issue: 1881
Plain Dealer (Cleveland). 846 issues: 1878 to 1913
Oklahoma
Tulsa World (Tulsa). 179 issues: 1922
Oregon
Oregonian (Portland). 4 issues: 1917 to 1919
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia). 84 issues: 1857 to 1859
Texas
Dallas Morning News (Dallas). 119 issues: 1982 to 1983
Utah
Salt Lake Telegram (Salt Lake City). 2 issues: 1912 & 1915
Virginia
Richmond Daily Whig (Richmond). 1 issue: 1849
To see our complete Title List, 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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