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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
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Happy Birthday to the Newspaper & Current Periodical Reading Room! The reading room, located in the James Madison Building of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, opened to the public on May 11, 1982.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Toni Stone was the first woman in history to play regularly in a major men’s professional baseball league.
Posted in: African American History, Baseball, Biography, Newspapers, Sports, Women's History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
In February 2022, 1,224 new pages from 103 African American newspaper titles throughout 28 states and the District of Columbia were added to Chronicling America.
Posted in: African American History, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Alice Guy-Blaché is a name you likely have never heard. She was a pioneer of the French and American film industries during the silent era and the first woman to have a career as a director, yet her work and career have largely been overlooked throughout history. She was among the very first to use …
Posted in: Biography, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Women's History
Posted by: Amber Paranick
During the 19th century, people read serialized novels the way we watch episodic TV. Momentum was built with each installment and readers tuned in each week (or month) to find out what happened after the last cliffhanger. This is part 1 of a 3-part series that spans the history of serialized fiction in periodicals.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Walt Whitman
Posted by: Amber Paranick
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, we revisit the Library of Congress historic newspaper collection.
Posted in: Newspapers
Posted by: Amber Paranick
Like the bicycle, the marathon, and the roller-skating crazes that came before it, the pickleball (sometimes “pickle-ball” in newspapers) craze is sweeping the nation. Though it has elements of ping-pong, tennis, and badminton, it is a unique sport of its own. According to USA Pickleball’s website, three neighbors “Congressman Joel Pritchard, Barney McCallum, and Bill Bell …
Posted in: Newspapers, Sports
Posted by: Amber Paranick
The following post, written by Peter DeCraene, the 2020-21 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow at the Library of Congress, was originally posted to the Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog. Books often surprise me – plot twists, different historical perspectives, or deeply drawn characters – but recently, I found a different kind of surprise …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Genealogy, Newspapers