The Center for Research Libraries has announced the launch of African Newspapers, as part of the World Newspaper Archive available through Readex. In addition to 30 historical Latin American titles, 13 historical African titles are now included, with more titles slated to be added later this year. Read CRL's press release | Connect to African Newspapers
The Library of Congress' Chronicling America Web site has recently updated to include 287,000 additional digital newspaper pages from 15 states and the District of Columbia. The free-access site now includes more than 1.7 million pages from 212 newspaper titles published between 1880 and 1922. This update includes increased date coverage of many titles as well as new titles from Arizona, Hawaii, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Utah, Virginia and Washington. Titles from the Illinois Newspaper Project will be added later this year. Connect to Chronicling America.
Contains over 2 million digitized pages of periodicals from 19th Century UK. Connect to this resource.
The History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library (HPNL) is seeking graduate student volunteers to provide support for our projects and services. More info
This new resource brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Connect to this resource.
The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a $397,000 two-year grant from the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) for its Illinois Digital Newspaper Project. The award will support the digitization of 100,000 pages of historically significant Illinois newspapers dating from 1860 to 1922. More.
The History, Philosophy and Newspaper Library is pleased to announce the launch of the Farm, Field and Fireside collection. This freely-available locally developed project contains digitized versions of historically significant U.S. farm newspapers published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Connect to Farm, Field and Fireside.
Over 3,500 reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, maps, and timelines. Send us feedback.
The University of Illinois Library announces the availability of the Illinois Digital Magazine and Yearbook Collection featuring digital versions of UIUC's yearbook, the Illio for the years of 1970-1989. Other titles include Arts for America (1894-1900), the Illinois Chemist (1915-1921), and the Illinois Society of Architects Monthly Bulletin (1916-1932). Connect to the collection.