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Chronicling America travels to the Caribbean

This post was co-authored by project Advisory Board members at the University of the Virgin Islands, Jennifer Jackson, Cynthia Richards, and Judith Rodgers, Project Coordinator at the George A.

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Update: Florida Title Sneak Peek

Last month we announced that newspaper titles to be digitized during this phase of our project had been selected. Today, we would like to provide you a sneak peek of the type of content you will be

Posted in Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

Announcement: Phase 4 Titles Selected

We have exciting news to share! We have selected titles to digitize during this phase of our project. Over the course of the next year, we will be preparing content from following titles. Once

Posted in Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands

New Year, New Us!

In August 2019, the Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project came to an end. During the last six years (Sept2013-Aug2019), we have digitized more than 500 microfilm reels with over 300,000

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Phase 3 complete!

Phase 3 of the Florida & Puerto Rico Digital Newspaper Project is now complete! During this phase (2017-2019), the following newspaper titles were digitized and added to Chronicling America where

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We’re moving on to Phase 4! UF Libraries receive NEH grant to digitize newspapers

UF Libraries receive NEH grant to digitize newspapers: Project will provide access to ethnic and Caribbean newspapers The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida received a

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Blood Upon the Sand: The Armenian Genocide in World War I

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posted on April 24, 2019November 10, 2020
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On April 29, 1915, sandwiched between advertisements for “Groves Tasteless Chill Tonic” and “Chamberlain’s Tablets” near the bottom of page two of the Thursday edition of the Pensacola

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Introducing the Boletín

We are happy to announce the addition of a new title to Chronicling America! There are now a little over 16,000 pages of Boletín mercantil de Puerto Rico available for January 1871 through

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The Hinge of Fate: The Attempted Assassination of FDR in Miami

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posted on February 15, 2019November 10, 2020
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Today we bring you a guest post by R. Boyd Murphree, Project Manager, Florida Family and Community History, Digital Services and Shared Collections, University of Florida, George A. Smathers

Photograph of the everglades national park stamp featuring a stork in front of an outline of Florida.

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Even more issues of The Key West Citizen available on Chronicling America

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posted on December 6, 2018November 10, 2020
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We just posted about a new batch of The Key West Citizen, but even more pages were just uploaded to Chronicling