Over the winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the new titles along with titles added from previous newspaper websites. Titles funded by a National Digital Newspaper Program Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Morning News (Savannah), 1887-1899 […]
As part of a $14,495 grant from the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation, the Digital Library of Georgia has digitized approximately 53,930 pages of Georgia newspaper titles published prior to 1861 from microfilm held by the Georgia Newspaper Project (http://www.libs.uga.edu/gnp/). The project creates full-text searchable versions of the newspapers and presents them online for free […]
Over the summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the new titles along with titles added from previous newspaper websites. Titles funded by the R. J. Taylor, Jr. Foundation Albany Courier (Albany), 1847 American Standard (Albany), 1855 Athens […]
The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the addition of the previously digitized South Georgia newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/ GHN now provides online access to forty seven South Georgia newspaper titles published in eleven cities (Albany, Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Cairo, Cuthbert, Thomasville, Tifton, Valdosta, Vienna, and Waycross) […]
The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Red and Black in the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (GHN) at https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/gua1179162/ . Since 1893, the Red and Black has provided a training ground for University of Georgia students interested in gaining experience in various aspects of newspaper publishing and to […]
The Digital Library of Georgia has added several new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website in 2018. Included below are a list of the most recent additions. Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, 1789-1806 Augusta Herald, 1799-1821 Augusta Washingtonian, 1843-1845 Daily Chronicle & Sentinel (Augusta), 1840-1859 Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta), 1847-1851 Daily […]
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 […]
Flagpole Magazine, Athens’ popular alternative newsweekly is the latest addition to the Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive (GHN), at https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn94029049/, part of the Digital Library of Georgia, based at the University of Georgia Libraries. The release of this new collection coincides with the 30th anniversary of Flagpole. Athens is unique as a small college town that […]