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Posted by: Megan Halsband
This is a guest post by Nathan Yarasavage, a digital projects specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division. This week we celebrate an exciting milestone. Chronicling America, the online searchable database of historic U.S. newspapers, now includes more than 15 million pages! Since 2005, libraries, historical societies, and other institutions throughout the country have …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers
Posted by: Megan Halsband
This is a guest post by Valerie Haeder, a reference librarian in the Serial and Government Publications Division. South Dakota’s Gladys Pyle was the first woman elected to the South Dakota House and South Dakota’s first female U.S. Senator. But she wouldn’t have cared about such distinctions as much as she did about getting things …
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Happy New Year!...For the first time since 1999 we celebrate Public Domain Day here in the United States - on January 1, 2019, content published in 1923 in the US enters the public domain!
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays