During 2018 and 2019, we’ll be incorporating all our newspaper content into a single newspaper portal, Georgia Historic Newspapers. Check out the most popular newspaper titles in GHN for 2018 thus far. Houston home journal. (Perry, Houston County, Ga.) 1924-1994: 23,886 pageviews Walker County messenger. (LaFayette, Ga.): 21,485 pageviews Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962: 18,945 pageviews […]
Throughout 2017, the Digital Library of Georgia added both new and previously digitized newspaper titles to its recently released Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Below is a list of newspapers titles slated to be added to GHN in the first half of 2018. In the winter of 2018, DLG will add the following newspapers: Early County News […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has recently added both new and previously digitized newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Included below are a list of the titles newly available as of December 2017: Daily Constitutionalist, 1851 Augusta Evening Dispatch, 1858-1861 Augusta Mirror, 1840 Augusta Washingtonian, 1843-1845 Bulletin of the Roman Catholic Diocese […]
December 19, 2017 WRITER: Mandy Mastrovita, mastrovi@uga.edu, 706-583-0209 CONTACT: Sheila McAlister, mcalists@uga.edu, 706-542-5418 ATHENS, Ga. — Historic Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah newspapers available online The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the release of historic Roman […]
This press release is part of a series of guest posts contributed by our partners at HomePLACE, a project of the Georgia Public Library Service. HomePLACE works with Georgia’s public libraries and related institutions to digitize historical content for inclusion in the Digital Library of Georgia. ATLANTA, Ga — Georgia HomePLACE and the Digital Library […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the previously digitized Milledgeville newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/ GHN now provides online access to thirteen Milledgeville newspaper titles published between 1808 and 1920, including: Confederate Union, 1862-1865 Federal Union, 1830-1872 Future Citizen, 1914-1916 Georgia Argus, 1810-1815 […]
October 23, 2017 WRITER: Jean Cleveland, jclevela@uga.edu, 706-542-8079 CONTACT: Sheila McAlister, mcalists@uga.edu, 706-542-5418 Digital Library Hits 1 Million Newspaper Pages ATHENS, Ga — The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is celebrating its 1 millionth digitized historic newspaper page. The premier issue of the Georgia Gazette, Georgia’s first newspaper, published from 1763-1776 in Savannah, will become […]
Aug. 14, 2017 Digital Library of Georgia received National Endowment for the Humanities grant to digitize newspapers ATHENS, Ga – Within two years, the Digital Library of Georgia will digitize 100,000 more pages of Georgia historic newspapers, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The DLG will receive $255,590 […]
In July 2017, the Digital Library of Georgia added both new and previously digitized newspaper titles to its recently released Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Below is a list of newspapers titles slated to be added to GHN over the next six months. In the fall of 2017, DLG will add the following newspapers: Flagpole […]
July 12, 2017 WRITER: Mandy Mastrovita, mastrovi@uga.edu, 706-583-0209 CONTACT: Sheila McAlister, mcalists@uga.edu, 706-542-5418 New website devoted to Georgia historic newspapers available from the Digital Library of Georgia. ATHENS, Ga. — The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the launch of a brand-new website featuring historic newspaper titles from around the state. Georgia […]