Embarrassing Baseball Scandals Fans Want to Forget
Posted by: Mike Queen
Post is a brief overview of five embarrassing Major League baseball scandals throughout history.
Posted in: Baseball, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Sports
Category: Digitized Newspapers
Introducing Massachusetts Newspapers on Chronicling America
Posted by: Malea Walker
Boston Public Library (BPL) in Massachusetts is one of our newest partners for Chronicling America. In this interview we learn about how they selected newspapers spanning nearly 200 years of American history, beginning with the birth of the United States as a nation in the 1770s, and what they have learned along the way. Read about these incredible early newspapers and how to search them.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers
Finding LGBTQIA+ History Hidden in Newspapers
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
Historic newspapers are a rich yet often overlooked resource when it comes to studying LGBTQIA+ history. Read about search techniques and strategies unique to newspaper research, and watch our new video presentation: Finding LGBTQIA+ History Hidden in Newspapers.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, LGBTQ+, Newspapers
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 …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Interviews, Jewish American History
America’s Popular Dog Breeds, 1900-1960
Posted by: Heather Thomas
Calling all dog lovers! Earlier this year, the American Kennel Club announced that for the first time in history, the French Bulldog was the most popular purebred dog breed in 2022, knocking out the Labrador Retriever which took the top spot for the past 30 years. Here’s a look back at the most popular breeds …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
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.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Searching African American Newspapers in Chronicling America
Posted by: Malea Walker
Chronicling America has grown its collection of African American newspapers through the contributions of state partners. Interviews with partners from Arkansas and Virginia highlight three titles that provide details about the early civil rights movement, the end of school segregation, and post-Civil War Reconstruction; and strategies are provided for searching these newspapers in Chronicling America.
Posted in: African American History, Digitized Newspapers, Interviews, Newspapers
20 Questions: U.S. Presidential Trivia Quiz – Round 2
Posted by: Heather Thomas
February 20 is Presidents Day--officially Washington's birthday--and what better way to celebrate than with some presidential trivia! You may have aced round 1 in 20 Questions: U.S. Presidential Trivia Quiz, but below are twenty more trivia questions to test your POTUS knowledge.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Trivia, U.S. Presidents
The Mysterious Disappearance of Ghost Ship Carroll A. Deering’s Crew
Posted by: Malea Walker
“Like a ‘Flying Dutchman,’ the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering loomed through the mists about Diamond Shoals today, all sails set, but un-manned.” –The Washington Herald, February 3, 1921. In late January, 1921, all occupants of the schooner Carroll A. Deering disappeared somewhere in the waters along the North Carolina coast. The ship was still …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Mystery, Newspapers