Please get in touch because I’d like to get you set up with a complimentary membership. Plus beg you to occasionally write something and we’ll put a link to your site in the article..

Thanks, Paul

http://www.bcr.org/cdp/collections/newspapers/index.html

After hunting up the URL, I see the name has been changed but you still have the Colorado newspapers. Also, check out the links at the bottom of the page.

Billy

Lee

Thanks for your comments to Eric’s post…I’m a big fan of Newspaper ARchive myself, but it definitely takes some patience, flexibility, and browsing.

I don’t think their OCR is top notch, so many simple search terms are entirely missed, even though I *know* they are there. For instance, a search of “Monocacy” in 1864 gives NO hits(!) but a look at any July 1864 paper will show that it’s there…I think sometimes you just have to browse as if it was microfilm…at least it’s at your fingertips instead of the library.

Jim Schmidt

Other services that many can access at their university library is Proquest, and another is something entitled Historical Newspaper Database, or something like that.

I agree with you, CW era newspapers (and actually later ones, with reminiscences, etc) are quite rich.

BTW, Eric, The Defenses of Washington is now available on Google books.

Best
Rob

There’s a link to it in the body of the post. Just click on the link.

Eric