Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps
We've all probably heard the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” at some point in our lives. This common phrase has been a tried and true saying in American discourse since the 19th century,...
View ArticleOld Alaskan newspapers coming your way!
October and November were exciting months here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project. We submitted 5 new batches of newspaper issues to the Library of Congress and all 5 were accepted! This means...
View ArticleNew titles online!
Good News Everyone! Two new batches of data from the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project are now online at https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Our batches, arcticfox and iceworm, contain over 5000...
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Our New Years resolution to bring you more Alaskan newspapers is going swimmingly so far as our latest batch, Halibut, has been uploaded to ChroniclingAmerica. You can view this batch online here or...
View ArticleNew batches uploaded!
Our work here at the Alaska National Digital Newspaper Project continues and the Library of Congress has accepted and uploaded two new batches of Alaskan newspaper pages since our last post. These...
View ArticleMore Alaskan newspapers online!
If you're a fan of old Alaskan newspapers then we have good news for you: two more batches of newspapers have been uploaded to the Library of Congress' website, Chronicling America! These two new...
View ArticleLooking for newspaper issues!
Hi Readers, We're putting out the call here at the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project for issues of The Alaska Spotlight! Do you or anyone you know still hold copies of this newspaper? If so, let us...
View ArticleFashion upheaval in the 1930s
Fashion and culture changes over time but once in a while, someone gives it a push to help it along. One shove came in 1930 with the movie Morocco, starring Marlene Dietrich. In the most famous scene...
View ArticleMore Alaskan Newspapers!
Good News Everyone! Since our last update post on March 21st we have added over 40,000 pages of Alaskan newspapers to ChroniclingAmerica.loc.gov! These pages contain over 6000 issues from 34 newspaper...
View ArticleAlaska awarded 4th newspaper grant!
https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-315-million-226-humanities-projects-nationwide We are happy to say that the National Endowment for Humanities recently announced that Alaska would receive a 4th...
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