Tracing Title Changes in Ohio’s Historic Newspapers
Part of my job as the project coordinator for Ohio’s contribution to the National Digital Newspaper Program involves writing descriptions of a …
“Until Leap Year Gives It One Day More”: February 29th… Leap Day!
Tomorrow is February 29, 2020. As we all know from the Mother Goose rhyme in the title of this piece, February typically …
A Variety of Valentines
Dearest Valentine… Happy Valentine’s Day! Need some inspiration for your special gift? In addition to browsing the vintage valentines on Ohio Memory’s …
Discovering Dayton’s Labor History
It’s a new season for Chronicling America additions, and this one’s a little special. For the past two years, we’ve focused on …
Blast From the Past: Farming with Dynamite
One fine November day in 1905, farmhand Frank Martin was passing a stone crusher next to a creek–probably Bokes Creek in York …
“An Absolute Cure”: The Golden Age of Patent Medicine
Have you ever looked at an old newspaper and been curious about the variety and number of advertisements for cure-all medicines? The …
Newspapers: A (19th) Century of Change
The Lebanon Western Star, occasionally renamed to the Weekly Western Star or the Western Star and Lebanon Gazette,was a weekly newspaper mainly …
More News about Newspapers
Over the past two years, the Ohio History Connection has digitized and added over 100,000 pages of foreign language newspaper content to …
Hungarian-German Newspaper Now on Chronicling America!
A newspaper dedicated to the community of Hungarian-Germans in Ohio is now on Chronicling America! You can visit the site to browse …
Croatian Newspapers Now on Chronicling America!
Two newspapers documenting Croatian-American history in Ohio and surrounding areas are now freely available and full-text searchable (in Croatian) on Chronicling America! …
