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Posted by: Malea Walker
While most people may be aware of the greater Allied effort in World War II, few people know that several Latin American countries were also formal allies. In Latin American countries, newspapers printed their support in editorials and images.
Posted in: Hispanic American History, Newspapers, World War II
Posted by: Library of Congress
This blog post was taken down for review after concerns were raised that the author used content in several posts from other sources without providing appropriate citations. Headlines and Heroes apologizes both to any authors whose important work we did not appropriately recognize, and to its readers.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Could a picture be worth more than a thousand words? For anyone trying to find an elusive photograph, illustration, or comic in a historic newspaper – the answer might be yes! Searching for these types of images is dramatically easier thanks to digitization efforts, such as the National Digital Newspaper Program, which makes millions of …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers
Posted by: Malea Walker
If hippopotamus was on the menu, would you try it? That’s what America almost did in 1910! Corporate beef monopolies, stricter regulations, and meat shortages all combined to create soaring meat prices nationwide. Senator Robert Broussard proposed a solution: import African animals to the U.S. for meat (61st Cong. 2nd sess. H.R. 23261). Broussard brought …
Posted in: Comic Books, Digitized Newspapers, Government Documents