Historic issues of the Portland Morning Oregonian and The Sunday Oregonian, from the late 19th century through the end of January 1922, are available for keyword-searching and browsing through Historic Oregon Newspapers online! Learn about the early history of the…
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New historic Oregon newspaper content now online at Chronicling America!
Attention all historic Oregon newspaper lovers! The Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) have added hundreds of new Oregon newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the nation’s free, online, keyword-searchable historic newspaper database! New content includes: Ashland,…
The Civil War in Oregon: James O’Meara and Newspaper Suppression
On May 25, 1861, James O’Meara, a veteran of the newspaper business, decided to abandon the Oregon Sentinel, a small Democratic paper that he had published in Jacksonville since his arrival there two years earlier.[i] Many papers in 19th century…
Ring in the New Year with more Oregonian content!
It’s officially 2013, and what better way to celebrate the dawn of a new year than with the addition of more newspaper content from Portland’s Morning Oregonian and The Sunday Oregonian, now freely available through February 1916 for keyword searching…
New Historic Oregonian Content Added to Historic Oregon Newspapers Online!
Excellent news for Oregon historic newspaper enthusiasts: 54,601 additional pages of the Morning Oregonian and The Sunday Oregonian have just been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers keyword-searchable online database! Content from the Morning Oregonian is now available from September…
Oregon Women’s Suffrage Centennial
As the November 2012 Presidential election draws near, American voters are faced with many issues to deliberate and decisions to be made. Precisely 100 years ago, only American men were allowed to cast their votes for the next president. While…
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Chronicling America Posts 5 Millionth Page
As part of the Library of Congress’ and National Endowment for the Humanities’ National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), the ODNP is pleased to announce that Chronicling America, the NDNP’s online collection of searchable, historic newspapers from across the United States,…
New ODNP article in the Oregon Library Association Quarterly Journal!
Fall is officially here, and what better way to celebrate than by checking out the Fall 2012 issue of the OLA Quarterly, themed “Libraries, Museums, and Oregon’s Cultural History.” As a program fully geared toward preserving, providing access to, and…
New Content Added to Historic Oregon Newspapers!
Over 40,000 pages of new content have just been added to the Historic Oregon Newspapers online database! New titles include: Eugene, Oregon: Broad-axe/Broad-axe Tribune, 1894-1900 Eugene, Oregon: The State Republican, 1862-1863 Roseburg, Oregon: The Plaindealer, 1895-1905 Tillamook, Oregon: Tillamook Herald,…
The Politics of Prohibition in Oregon
As most of us likely already know, the U.S. once grappled with the question of whether or not to ban the production, distribution, and sale of alcohol. In fact, a federal ban was instituted for about thirteen years, from 1920…