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 all digitized content is accessible to the public for free! Puerto Rico: Boletín mercantil de Puerto Rico Over 50,000 pages of content from 1871 to 1915Continue reading Phase 3 complete!
We’re excited to announce that our first batch of Puerto Rican newspapers for this cycle is now up in Chronicling America! This batch contains content for one of our new titles, La democracia from July 1891-Nov 1897. La democracia was founded and published by the Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician Luis Muñoz Rivera. It wasContinue reading New Puerto Rico Content Available!
While Florida newspapers certainly cover history-making moments, they also serve as a chronicle of the economic and social issues facing readers at the time of publication. Within the pages of papers included in the FPRDNP, few topics are as pervasive as the state’s iconic citrus industry. It may be unsurprising that citrus news dominates aContinue reading The Juicy History of Florida Citrus in the News
Few events lead to sensational and speculative newspaper headlines quite like unexpected disasters. One such disaster covered by the papers in our collection is the sinking of the Titanic which occurred April 15th 1912, just hours after the ship struck an iceberg on its starboard side. There are many reasons why this particular disasterContinue reading The Unsinkable Legacy of the Titanic in Florida Newspapers
