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Oldest surviving newspaper in Germany, now published as Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung. 1705 Mercurius Hungaricus: Latin Levoča, Bardejov: Kingdom of Hungary: Oldest Hungarian newspaper, issued by the insurgency command of Rákoczi's Uprising, it had 7 issues and last printed in 1710. [27] 1709 The Tatler: English London Kingdom of Great Britain
Newspaper being packed for delivery, Paris 1848. The modern newspaper is a European invention. [1] The oldest direct handwritten news sheets circulated widely in Venice as early as 1566. These weekly news sheets were full of information on wars and politics in Italy and Europe. The first printed newspapers were published weekly in Germany from ...
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918 to 1919; The short film The Story of Stars and Stripes is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. The short film Big Picture: All the World to All the Troops is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Newspapers were the vehicle that asserted the greatest social and political pressure on the Stamp Act and were instrumental in its repeal less than a year later. [131] [126] The Constitutional Courant was a single issue colonial American newspaper published in response to the Stamp Act. Printed by William Goddard under the assumed name of ...
During the 19th century Germans were the second-largest immigrant group to the United States, behind only the ethnic Irish. [1] The wave of German immigration began slowly, averaging about 20,000 people per year during the decades of the 1830s and early 1840s, before exploding after the economic crisis of 1847 and the failure of the Revolution of 1848 in the German states. [1]
On March 31, 2004, Bruce Cole, the directory of the NEH, and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, signed an agreement creating the National Digital Newspaper Program. The NDNP follows in the footsteps of the successful United States Newspaper Program, a several-decade effort to catalog and microfilm the bulk of America's historic ...