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Posted by: Malea Walker
Arlene has been an expert librarian and an accomplished blogger for Headlines and Heroes, writing incredible posts on WWI and Frederick Douglass (to name a few). She recently retired and will be missed by all! Read about some of her favorite collections and moments at the Library.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Interviews, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Joshua Ortiz Baco is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Texas at Austin. His work combines cultural studies and digital methodologies in the study of 19th-century abolitionist and racial discourses in U.S. newspapers of Cuban, Puerto Rican and Brazilian immigrants. His research is funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation grant-in-aid program …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Interviews
Posted by: Malea Walker
“Murder Straight Ahead,” “Yesterday I Lived!”, “The Lonely Corpse." With titles like these, who could resist these stories? In an era before television or even paperback books, people found excitement and entertainment in the form of pulp fiction magazines. Read more about the collections in the Newspaper Reading Room!
Posted in: Interviews, Pulp Fiction