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Archive: May 2023 (3 Posts)

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Searching Jewish American Newspapers in Chronicling America

Posted by: Malea Walker

The following is a guest post by Robin Pike, Head, Digital Collection Services Section in the Serial and Government Publications Division. Robin conducted the following interviews with Ann Sneesby-Koch from History Colorado in Denver, CO, and Melissa Jerome from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Chronicling America* has grown its collection of newspapers by …

America’s Popular Dog Breeds, 1900-1960

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.

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The Phantom of the Opera in Newspapers

Posted by: Amber Paranick

Did you get a chance to see the musical production, The Phantom of the Opera, at the Majestic Theatre in New York during its nearly 35-year run? Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical was based on a French novel by Gaston Leroux and was first published in serial form in a French newspaper. Learn about the serialization of the story and more.