America's Historical Newspaper is a great source for original primary source materials. There are wonderful primary source articles covering the titanic sinking, civil war, world war I, and all the way back to 1690. Overall, this resource is rather solid. Keep in mind that the text is scanned so if you search for genealogical information on say the family name of "Volkman" you may get some results centered on "workman" instead. My favorite part of this resource, for example, was reading an article about the Chicago World Series Championship season back in 1908. One game was called due to darkness in the 12th inning. This resource tool was recently added to the website.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Historical Newspapers - Treasured Sources...
America's Historical Newspaper is a great source for original primary source materials. There are wonderful primary source articles covering the titanic sinking, civil war, world war I, and all the way back to 1690. Overall, this resource is rather solid. Keep in mind that the text is scanned so if you search for genealogical information on say the family name of "Volkman" you may get some results centered on "workman" instead. My favorite part of this resource, for example, was reading an article about the Chicago World Series Championship season back in 1908. One game was called due to darkness in the 12th inning. This resource tool was recently added to the website.
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