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Posted by: Amber Paranick
On July 2,1881 President James Garfield was preparing to board a train in Washington, DC, when he was shot and seriously wounded. Two parallel stories emerged in the press--the President’s fight for life, and the bizarre story of his would-be assassin, Charles J. Guiteau.
Posted in: Chronicling America, Crime, Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, U.S. Presidents
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
Posted by: Amber Paranick
One hundred years ago this week, on November 2, 1920, the United States presidential election was held. It was the first presidential election held after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Incidentally – and as holders of the Library’s main newspaper collections, we can’t <not> mention it – …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, U.S. Presidents, Women's History