Post written by Allia Service, UO class of 2022. This year the Oregon Digital Newspaper Project (ODNP) website surpassed 2 million pages online! In total, we uploaded 704,088 pages. That includes 112,752 pages uploaded by our in-house digitization and digital…
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UO Undergraduate History and Digital Humanities Project Uses ODNP
This post was created by Allia Service, class of 2022. The history of home cooking, and women’s household labor is often obscured by a lack of obvious sources. ODNP offers a window into this world through women’s pages and food…
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UO’s student newspaper now online!
The Oregon Daily Emerald is an independent newspaper, produced by students at the University of Oregon. Issues from 1909-1952 are now available to view on our website. Starting in 1909 the paper was named the Oregon Emerald and ran twice a week until 1920 when it was…
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ODNP Yearly Recap!
This year the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) uploaded 80,013 pages of Oregon newspapers to the website! These 80,000 pages came from currently-publishing and historic newspapers all around Oregon. Some of the new historic newspapers include: Forest Grove Independent Washington…
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Landmark LGBTQ+ publication now online!
Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor and a partnership with the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest (GLAPN) and the Oregon Historical Society Library, Just Out: “Oregon’s lesbian and gay newsmagazine” is now available to view on our website. Just Out was published and distributed for free twice…
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Top Strategies for Searching for Your Ancestor by Name–from Newspapers.com
Check out this great blog post from Newspapers.com about searching for name variations in digitized newspapers!
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Author Rediscovers Portland’s History Through ODNP!
Dr. Tracy J. Prince shares how she takes advantage of the sources available on Historic Oregon Newspapers to uncover forgotten histories of Portland. Can you tell us a little about your publication(s) and yourself? I’m a Professor at Portland State…
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1 million pages online!
Happy New Year from the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program! As of today, January 11, 2019, the ODNP website has surpassed 1 million pages online! Only a handful of statewide newspaper digitization and preservation programs have over 1 million pages and…
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Con-man Edgar Laplante’s Oregon connections discovered in new publication
King Con: The Bizarre Adventures of the Jazz Age’s Greatest Impostor will be released on August 7th! Read more about the Oregon connections author Paul Willetts discovered while researching below: …
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Historic Murder Inspires New Novel
John Riha, Ashland-based author, discusses the historically-rooted inspiration for his latest novel! Can you tell us about your book? The Bounty Huntress is an historical novel set in southern Oregon in the…
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