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Posted by: Joanna Colclough
The siege of Vicksburg ended on July 4, 1863. The newspaper the Daily Citizen kept printing throughout the 47 day siege and resorted to using floral wallpaper when newsprint ran out.
Posted in: Civil War, Journalism, Newspapers
Posted by: Malea Walker
Historic newspapers are a rich yet often overlooked resource when it comes to studying LGBTQIA+ history. Read about search techniques and strategies unique to newspaper research, and watch our new video presentation: Finding LGBTQIA+ History Hidden in Newspapers.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, LGBTQ+, Newspapers
Posted by: Heather Thomas
Calling all dog lovers! Earlier this year, the American Kennel Club announced that for the first time in history, the French Bulldog was the most popular purebred dog breed in 2022, knocking out the Labrador Retriever which took the top spot for the past 30 years. Here’s a look back at the most popular breeds …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, 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: Malea Walker
Chronicling America has grown its collection of African American newspapers through the contributions of state partners. Interviews with partners from Arkansas and Virginia highlight three titles that provide details about the early civil rights movement, the end of school segregation, and post-Civil War Reconstruction; and strategies are provided for searching these newspapers in Chronicling America.
Posted in: African American History, Digitized Newspapers, Interviews, Newspapers
Posted by: Heather Thomas
February 20 is Presidents Day--officially Washington's birthday--and what better way to celebrate than with some presidential trivia! You may have aced round 1 in 20 Questions: U.S. Presidential Trivia Quiz, but below are twenty more trivia questions to test your POTUS knowledge.
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Trivia, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Malea Walker
“Like a ‘Flying Dutchman,’ the five-masted schooner Carroll A. Deering loomed through the mists about Diamond Shoals today, all sails set, but un-manned.” –The Washington Herald, February 3, 1921. In late January, 1921, all occupants of the schooner Carroll A. Deering disappeared somewhere in the waters along the North Carolina coast. The ship was still …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Mystery, Newspapers
Posted by: Heather Thomas
With unprecedented prosperity, technology, and leisure like no decade before it, 1920s America roared, soared, and was never bored, igniting endless fads and crazes of excess and frivolity–until it all came crashing down (Hendricks, 2018). The decade before survived the cataclysm of World War I and a deadly global influenza epidemic. This brought about a …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers
Posted by: Joanna Colclough
Re-posted from the main Library of Congress blog, learn about the full run of a Civil War regiment's newspaper recently acquired by the Serial & Government Publications Division.
Posted in: Civil War, Newspapers