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Posted by: Megan Halsband
We’re excited to announce that our research guide, American Women: Resources from the Serial & Government Publications Collections, is now available online!
Posted in: Comic Books, Government Documents, Newspapers, Pulp Fiction, Women's History
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
The Cherokee Nation became the first Native American tribe with a tribal newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix. The Serial & Government Publications Division holds a number of original issues of the Cherokee Phoenix, first published on February 21, 1828. The newspaper was printed “partly with English, and partly with Cherokee print; and all matter which is common …
Posted in: Comic Books, Native American History, Newspapers, Web Archives
Posted by: Megan Halsband
Before comic books, people read comics in their local newspapers such as Little Nemo, Mutt and Jeff, and the Yellow Kid. Read more about these early comics in the collections of the Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room.
Posted in: Comic Books, Newspaper Comic Strips, Newspapers