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 grant in the National Digital Newspaper Project, covering 2022-2024. This means that the Alaska Digital Newspaper Project will be able to add an additional 100,000 pages of Alaskan newspapers to Chronicling America! We are excited …
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 titles over a period of more than 50 years of Alaska's history. Here's the breakdown of our newest uploads: The "J" Bird, 1932 - …
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 from the film, Dietrich appears on camera wearing a tuxedo and during a performance number gives a kiss …
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 know! The Alaska Spotlight was an Anchorage weekly that started in 1952 and ended sometime in the 1960s. The …
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 batches, named bow head whale and killer whale, contain over 22,000 newspaper pages across more than 2500 issues. These issues come …
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 latest batches, nicknamed jaeger and icelandgull, contain over 3,000 newspaper issues and more than 22,000 pages covering the time period from 1923 through …
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 see all of the titles we have uploaded here! As always, our website provides a geographic breakdown of the different titles that …
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 newspaper issues from the following titles: Fort Wrangel News (1898-1898) Stikeen River Journal (1898-1899) Alaska Sentinel (1902-1909) The Wrangell Sentinel (1909-1956) The Nome Daily Nugget (1906-1914) The Nome …
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 that in the next few months you should be able to find the following on Chronicling America: -We will have several new …
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, but what does it actually mean? The image connected with this saying – literally pulling yourself up by your bootstraps …
For Filipino American History Month we're exploring the story of Josefina Guerrero, a Filipina spy and member of the underground resistance against the Japanese in World War II. Guerrero carried messages, delivered food to U.S. POWs, mapped enemy defenses, delivered critical information to U.S. forces, and helped save numerous American soldiers and civilians during the …
Cordova Daily Times, 5/10/1918 The term “Gold Star Mother” first originated around 1918. Families with soldiers serving in World War I hung service flags with a blue star from their windows. When someone serving had died then the blue star would be replaced with a gold star, and in 1928 the Gold Star Mothers organization …
Alaska's Digital Newspaper Project 