Florida, history, Project Updates | Leave a Comment on Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized

Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized

Content from the Miami Citizen (1938-1949), Mami Labor Citizen (1949-1956) and the Labor Citizen (1956-1959) have been digitized and are live in Chronicling America! Miami’s Central Labor Union decided to begin publishing a newspaper in March 1918, due to lack of publicity in the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily Metropolis. Miami’s only labor newspaper, theContinue reading Miami Citizen, Miami Labor Citizen, and Labor Citizen now Digitized

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The River Junction Tribune and Chattahoochee Tribune

257 issues of River Junction Tribune and The Chattahoochee Tribune from 1935-1941 have been added to Chronicling America! Chattahoochee Tribune, July 11, 1941. The River Junction Tribune, later the Chattahoochee Tribune, was a weekly paper published in Gadsden County, Florida. The paper began publishing circa 1929 as the River Junction Tribune.  The newspaper changed itsContinue reading The River Junction Tribune and Chattahoochee Tribune

Florida, Project Updates | Leave a Comment on Community Council Commentator Added

Community Council Commentator Added

The Community Council Commentator years 1943-1945 and the related title Commentator of the Community Council years 1945 -1950 have been added to Chronicling America! About the Commentator The Community Council Commentator began publication in February 1943. Produced by the Jacksonville Jewish Community Council, the biweekly newspaper described itself as the “Official Organ of the JacksonvilleContinue reading Community Council Commentator Added

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La Gaceta digitalizada

¡La Gaceta 1926-1932 y 1934-1943 ya está en línea en Chronicling America! Las ediciones hasta 1951 se agregarán durante los próximos dos años.   Puede encontrar más números de La Gaceta, incluidos 1922-1923, 1933 y 1952-2023 en Florida Digital Newspaper Library.   Este blog ha sido adaptado del ensayo sobre La Gaceta publicado en Chronicling America.  La Gaceta esContinue reading La Gaceta digitalizada

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El Mundo is now available!

Este blog también está disponible en Español. El Mundo (San Juan, Puerto Rico) printed its first issue on February 17, 1919. This Spanish-language publication self-identified as the “Diario de la mañana” (“the morning daily”). In its first years,  El Mundo‘s content primarily focused on providing information from the Americas and Europe, frequently including news services fromContinue reading El Mundo is now available!

history, Virgin Islands | Leave a Comment on The Case for Building a House for the Dead

The Case for Building a House for the Dead

“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The first line of LP Hartley’s 1953 novel “The Go-Between,” often comes to mind when one is perusing newspapers from another time. It’s fascinating to try to imagine what captivated people throughout history. According to one staff writer for the St. Croix Avis, JanuaryContinue reading The Case for Building a House for the Dead

Florida, Project Updates, Virgin Islands | Leave a Comment on We’re moving to Phase 5!

We’re moving to Phase 5!

August 17, 2021 UF Libraries awarded additional funding from NEH to digitize and provide access to historic newspapers The George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida received a grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to expand their newspaper digitization efforts and continue participating in the National Digital Newspaper ProgramContinue reading We’re moving to Phase 5!

Florida, history | Leave a Comment on The Southern Jewish Weekly

The Southern Jewish Weekly

About the newspaper The Southern Jewish Weekly began publication in 1939, when editor Isadore Moscovitz (a University of Florida Journalism graduate) merged the Florida Jewish News and the Jewish Citizen to create a new newspaper that would be “an independent weekly serving American citizens of Jewish faith”. The Weekly considered itself the “oldest and mostContinue reading The Southern Jewish Weekly