A Second Round of December Additions: NewsInHistory.com Adds More Papers!

Submitted by tonyp on Fri, 12/18/2009 - 12:50

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 we have already digitized. We have been especially productive during December; this is the second addition of papers to our archive this month. This current addition involves 12 newspapers from 10 states; 1 of these titles is new to our archive. A total of 46,297 issues have been added in this release! Here are the details:

Connecticut

Constitution (Middletown). 34 issues: 1856

Indiana

Wabash Courier (Terre-Haute). 173 issues: 1837 to 1850

Louisiana

Times-Picayune (New Orleans). 1 issue: 1893

Massachusetts

Boston Journal (Boston). 99 issues: 1893
Springfield Republican (Springfield). 16,861 issues: 1923 to 1946

Michigan

Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo). 2,716 issues: 1872 to 1916

New Jersey

Trenton Evening Times (Trenton). 13,724 issues: 1972 to 1993

New York

New York Herald (New York). 681 issues: 1879 to 1896
New York Herald-Tribune (New York). 2,357 issues: 1856 to 1876

Oregon

Oregonian (Portland). 1,069 issues: 1868 to 1907
Oregonian (Portland). 8,543 issues: 1923 to 1948

Pennsylvania

Aurora General Advertiser (Philadelphia). 13 issues: 1800 (new)

Texas

Dallas Morning News (Dallas). 26 issues: 1978

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!