The Star Democrat: SU Nabb Center earns NEH grant to study Eastern Shore baseball. “Salisbury University’s Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History and Culture is embarking on an 18-month project to chronicle Eastern Shore baseball leagues and teams of the mid-20th century, thanks to a competitive $11,300 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Common Heritage Program.”
20th century
Australian Aviation: 1919 Great Air Race Winners’ Archive Digitised
Australian Aviation: 1919 Great Air Race Winners’ Archive Digitised. “…a hundred years after the Great Air Race, aviation enthusiasts and scholars around the world will be able to more easily get an insight into the thoughts of Sir Ross and Sir Keith from a century ago after the State Library of South Australia added the pair’s personal records to its digital collection.”
InPublishing: The Tablet releases full digital archive with Exact Editions
InPublishing: The Tablet releases full digital archive with Exact Editions. “As the second-oldest surviving weekly publication in Britain, the title has continually offered in-depth coverage across a plethora of topics including religion, current affairs, politics, social issues and the arts. Readers of The Tablet will be able to trace the narrative of the last two centuries with reports on world events such as the Irish Famine of 1847, the beginning of World War II in 1945 and the attempted assassination of the Pope in 1981.”
Effingham Daily News: Illinois cultural journalism collection now available for free in Digital Public Library
Effingham Daily News: Illinois cultural journalism collection now available for free in Digital Public Library. “The complete contents of a south-central Illinois cultural journalism project, ‘Tales from the General Store,’ is now available at no cost in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). In the tradition of Foxfire, the Tales project was created by author and now-retired educator Ray Elliott to provide the opportunity for high school and college students to learn about journalism through hands-on experience in interviewing and writing about people from rural Illinois who lived and worked during the early part of the 20th century when general stores were at the heart of small, tight-knit communities. In addition to the educational student benefit, these stories have helped to preserve some of the history and culture of this era in Illinois for the public.”
Case Western Reserve University: Case Western Reserve University Student Newspapers Now Online
Case Western Reserve University: Case Western Reserve University Student Newspapers Now Online. “The Special Collections and Archives team at Kelvin Smith Library has digitized over 150 years of Case Western Reserve University student newspapers dating back to 1862. The collection totals over 6,263 issues and is comprised of 55,769 pages and 314,236 articles.” This collection also covers nine different titles.
Dani Gal Creates Online Archive of Spoken-Word Political Vinyl Records
Dani Gal has created quite a collection of spoken-word political vinyl records at https://historical-records.com/ . From the about page: “Historical Records is an ongoing project of collectin commercially released vinyl records that document political events of the twentieth century. The collection contains over 700 LP’s of speeches and interviews of those who were in power and others who objected this power, of wars and peace agreements, human rights struggles and other radio broadcasts, of the events that shaped history from the invention of the phonograph to the fall of the Berlin wall.” Worst timesink I’e seen in a loooong time….
Spring Hill College: The Springhillian, other student newspapers digitized back to early 1900s
Spring Hill College: The Springhillian, other student newspapers digitized back to early 1900s . “The Springhillian, Spring Hill College’s student-produced newspaper, was recently digitized along with other previously published student newspapers, thanks to funding provided to the project by the Spring Hill College Friends of the Library. The Springhillian, which began publication in 1924, has now been made searchable along with the prior Spring Hill news series that goes back to 1910.”
