Sorry for the cross-post. I got this from one of the government info websites today. This website could make it easier to research American history in different parts of the country, for example how New York CIty helped with disaster relief after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
NEH WEBSITE OFFERS NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE TO HISTORIANS The National Endowment for the Humanities and Library of Congress have launched a website, 'Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers', that contains more than 226,000 pages of newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The link to the complete NEH announcement is: http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20070321.html This announcement goes on to say, "Ultimately, over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. Also on the Web site, an accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information directs users to newspaper titles in all types of formats." I think this is pretty exciting, not just for costume research - think of all the photos of regular people! - but of what exactly was going on all over the country during these exciting times and the opinions from elsewhere. I can't wait to hear what the people in Kentucky thought of the Gold Rush, or the Californians of Colorado Gold Rush. LynnD The History Geek _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
