The History page of Historic Oregon Newspapers online provides essays for each title in the collection describing the unique history, content and context in which each newspaper was produced. Several new essays, written by our ODNP Essayist and graduate student…
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Highlights from the IFLA Newspaper Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, Feb. 4-5, 2014
The International Federation of Library Associations’ (IFLA) Newspaper group recently convened in Salt Lake City for a two-day conference focused on “Spreading the News.” Representatives from across the United States, as well as from other countries such as Finland, the…
Tagged with: genealogy, history, newspapers, Salt Lake City
Posted in Announcements, Project Highlights
Posted in Announcements, Project Highlights
Dear Santa…A Christmas Tradition in Historic Newspapers
‘Tis the season! Oregon’s historic newspapers are full of holiday cheer from years past! As the Christmas holiday approaches, so too do thoughts of Christmas traditions, such as selecting and/or decorating a Christmas tree, hanging Christmas lights, sending Christmas cards…
Finding Cartoons and Comics in Historic Oregon Newspapers
Some of the richest content in our historic newspapers are the political cartoons and comic strips embedded within the pages of text. Newspapers digitized through the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program and made available online at Historic Oregon Newspapers (http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu) are…
Tagged with: comics, historic Oregon newspapers, images, political cartoons
Posted in Project Highlights, Research Tips and Tricks
Posted in Project Highlights, Research Tips and Tricks
Newspaper Image Quality and Oregon City History
The latest additions to the Historic Oregon Newspapers website come once again from Oregon City, but there is more to this story than just an announcement of new content! As you browse through Historic Oregon Newspapers online, you might wonder…
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…
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…
Tagged with: 2012, centennial, election, equal, Oregon, suffrage, votes, women
Posted in Project Highlights
Posted in Project Highlights
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…
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…
The Blue Jewel of Oregon
It’s officially summertime, and here at the ODNP, one of our favorite things about this glorious season in the Pacific Northwest is visiting Crater Lake without the hindrance of snow. Not only do the lake and surrounding landscapes provide breathtaking…