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Posted by: Amber Paranick
The Library of Congress has launched a new project to improve the text supporting keyword searches in Chronicling America. Read about our recent work and future plans to make this valuable historical collection easier to explore.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This blog post rounds up some favorite newspaper titles we’ve come across in working with the collections.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The following is a guest post by Donnie Summerlin, a Digital Projects Archivist at the University of Georgia Libraries in Athens, GA, and by Kerry Huller, a Digital Conversion Specialist in the Serial and Government Publications Division at the Library of Congress. The University of Georgia is the National Digital Newspaper Program awardee for the state of Georgia.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Holidays, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Read about the history and traditions of Leap Day in the pages of Chronicling America, our historic collection of digitized newspapers.
Posted in: Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This post briefly highlights Anne Royall, one of America's first female journalists, and her weekly Paul Pry newspaper.
Posted in: Journalism, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
This post spotlights three September 2023 events that feature the Library’s newspaper and comic book collections.
Posted in: Comic Books, 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
Posted by: Amber Paranick
“Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell’s Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.” In 1887, investigative journalist for the New York World newspaper Nellie Bly went undercover to expose the dreadful conditions at the Women’s Lunatic Asylum, a mental institution on Blackwell’s Island. Read more about Bly’s fearless investigation and how her work forever changed the field of journalism.
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Journalism, Newspapers, Women's History
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