Newspapers: A Roundup of Recent Additions to Chronicling America

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The Library of Congress regularly receives digitized newspapers from contributors to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Digitized newspapers are delivered in the form of batches, where each batch can contain one to many issues, from one or more newspaper titles. Recently loaded batches can be discovered on the Chronicling America Research Guide. More details about the batch can be discovered by clicking on the batch name link.

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, we’ve uploaded The Citizen, published in Chicago, from our Illinois state partner. This title, available from 1882-1897, is Chronicling America’s first Irish language newspaper.

Other recent additions include:

• The Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), 1819-1826. First published in Arkansas Territory and then Little Rock, this newspaper documented settler life on the frontier.
• The Citizen, The Allen County Times, The Citizen-Times (Scottsville, KY), 1912-1928. These newspapers are part of a family of newspaper titles that began in 1890 and is still being published today.
• Edgefield Advertiser (Edgefield, SC), 1836-1927. This newspaper is the oldest, continuously running newspaper in South Carolina and is still published today.
• Freeman’s Chronicle (Franklinton, OH), 1812-1814. This newspaper dates from when the town of Franklinton was independent of Columbus, OH.
• Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, Labor Citizen (Miami, FL), 1938-1959. These related titles represent Florida’s labor unions’ interests.
• Palladium of Virginia and the Pacific Monitor (Lewisburg, VA), 1823-1830. Lewisburg was in Virginia when the newspaper was published but is now in modern-day West Virginia.
• Prezwodnik Katolicki (New Britain, CT), 1908-1912. A Polish-language Catholic newspaper.
• Washington Daily News (Washington, DC), 1935-1945. This newspaper presents an alternative viewpoint from the Star, and during World War II, featured the writing of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was killed in action in 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa.

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