October Additions: NewsInHistory.com Adds More Papers!

Submitted by tonyp on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 12:11

NewsInHistory.com is continually adding more content to our historical newspaper archive -- titles new to our collection as well as expanding the date ranges for titles we have already digitized. This current addition involves 29 newspapers from 15 states and the District of Columbia; 9 of these titles are new to our archive. A total of 8,305 issues have been added in this release. Here are the details:

Connecticut

American Sentinel (Middletown). 326 issues: 1823 to 1833 (expansion)
Constitution (Middletown). 47 issues: 1854 to 1855 (expansion)
New London Gazette (New London). 160 issues: 1838 to 1843 (expansion)
True Republican (Norwich). 49 issues: 1804 to 1806 (expansion)

District of Columbia

Daily National Intelligencer (Washington). 3230 issues: 1842 to 1866 (expansion)

Kentucky

Western Citizen (Paris). 45 issues: 1808 to 1814 (new)

Louisiana

Orleans Gazette (New Orleans). 1 issue: 1817 (expansion)
Times-Picayune (New Orleans). 30 issues: 1872 to 1900 (expansion)

Maine

Annals of the Times (Kennebunk). 68 issues: 1803 to 1805 (new)
Independent Statesman (Portland). 167 issues: 1821 to 1825 (new)

Maryland

Baltimore Bulletin (Baltimore). 93 issues: 1872 to 1876 (new)

Massachusetts

American Traveller (Boston). 19 issues: 1825 to 1836 (new)
Gloucester Democrat (Gloucester). 362 issues: 1834 to 1838 (new)
Hampden Whig (Springfield). 2 issues: 1831 to 1836 (new)

Michigan

Grand Rapids Press (Grand Rapids). 330 issues: 1893 to 1920 (expansion)

Montana

Montana Herold (Helena). 1 issue: 1896 (expansion)

New Hampshire

New Hampshire Patriot (Concord). 2 issues: 1881 to 1884 (expansion)

New Jersey

Trenton State Gazette (Trenton). 293 issues: 1847 (expansion)

New York

Albany Evening Journal (Albany). 83 issues: 1850 to 1874 (expansion)
Catskill Recorder (Catskill). 143 issues: 1807 to 1833 (expansion)
Hodge’s Banknote Reporter (New York). 4 issues: 1861 (expansion)
New York Herald (New York). 244 issues: 1864 to 1871 (expansion)
New York Herald (New York). 677 issues: 1874 to 1883 (expansion)
New York Herald-Tribune (New York). 962 issues: 1856 to 1879 (expansion)

Ohio

Advertiser and Journal (Cincinnati). 9 issues: 1819 to 1827 (new)
Cincinnati Daily Gazette (Cincinnati). 722 issues: 1835 to 1845 (expansion)
Trump of Fame (Warren). 15 issues: 1812 to 1814 (new)

South Carolina

City Gazette (Charleston). 206 issues: 1824 (expansion)

Texas

Beaumont Enterprise and Journal (Beaumont). 14 issues: 1906 to 1911 (expansion)

Utah

Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City). 1 issue: 1881 (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!