Hundreds of daily newspaper archives you can read some going back to early 1800's!

[TotallyOz]

I just found this. It is pretty amazing. Data seems to be endless on the Internet!

Here's the link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers

[Guest FourAces]

I just found this. It is pretty amazing. Data seems to be endless on the Internet!

Here's the link:

http://news.google.com/newspapers

Very cool .. thanks for the heads up.

[TampaYankee]

Great news! (Pun intended ) It is a good start. There are so many newspapers archived on microfilm. It would be fantastic, if a duanting effort, to see all of that put online.

In the past I had occasion to search civil war era Tennessee newspapers. It gave me fascinating insight into the times and taught me some history I was unaware of that didn't make it into my school books. One could spend a lifetime wandering through those archives observing the perspectives of those times and places.

[Guest CharliePS]

I used to give my college students an assignment to read the newspapers printed on the day they were born, for perspective on the world as it appeared then, in order to write a paper about how the world had changed in their short lifetimes. Most were fascinated to discover those archives.

[TampaYankee]

I used to give my college students an assignment to read the newspapers printed on the day they were born, for perspective on the world as it appeared then, in order to write a paper about how the world had changed in their short lifetimes. Most were fascinated to discover those archives.

what a great assignment. You sound like an very interesting prof to have. Not at all incompatible with my impression of you from your posts over the last decade.