Living Newspapers: When News Made the Theatre
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Read about the plays of the Federal Theatre Project that were created from newspapers by newspaper staff.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Category: Digitized Newspapers
How Ayn Rand Wielded the Press and Publishing
Posted by: Malea Walker
65 years ago, Ayn Rand published her novel Atlas Shrugged. From novels to newspapers, pulp fiction to periodicals, read more about how the popular and controversial author made her voice heard.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Pulp Fiction, Women's History
A Scoop of Americana: The Ice Cream Soda
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Check out some ice cream soda fountain history in Chronicling America with some at-home recipes to keep cool in the summer heat.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Recipes
New Interactive Map and Timeline Added to Chronicling America
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Are you curious about where the 3000+ digitized newspapers on Chronicling America are located, and the date ranges they cover? Well, a new ArcGIS interactive map and timeline aims to answer those questions. Read more about how we created the new dynamic map and timeline in this blog post.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers
Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on July 4th
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The deaths of former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams on July 4, 1826, the day of the Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, was an extraordinary and eerie coincidence.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Newspapers, U.S. Presidents
Newsboys Honor Late President with Statue of His Beloved Dog
Posted by: Heather Thomas
When President Warren G. Harding died suddenly in 1923, the newsboys of Massachusetts jumped into action. The newsboys had considered the president a friend; before Harding was president, he was a newspaperman and he had supported the causes of newsboys while in office. To honor the late president, the newsboys pledged to have a bronze statue commissioned of Harding’s beloved dog, Laddie Boy, paid for and made by the donated pennies of newsboys from across the United States.
Posted in: Animals, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, U.S. Presidents
Tripped the Light Fantastic: When Ancestors Make the News
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The youthful beginnings of a female ancestor are revealed and reanimated by the social columns of her hometown newspaper.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Genealogy, Newspapers, Women's History
The Linotype: The Machine that Revolutionized Movable Type
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Lintoypes brought speed to a new level of the newspaper printing process and ruled the composing rooms for 100 years. Read more about these incredible machines and take a look at how they worked!
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Dr. Margaret Chung: First American Born Chinese Woman Physician
Posted by: Malea Walker
The following is a guest post from Meg Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room, currently on detail in the Serial and Government Publications Division. “Margaret Jessie Chung has Aspirations,” the Los Angeles Herald headline read on October 10, 1905. Margaret was a 16-year-old, first-generation Chinese American who was teaching English in the …
Posted in: Asian American History, Biography, Digitized Newspapers, LGBTQ+, Newspapers, Women's History