We’re excited to announce a new tool you might find useful for working with newspaper titles on The Portal to Texas History! This tool is a curated title database, which allows you to see how many years, issues, and pages of a serial publication we have available on the Portal. To access the curated title… Read more »
Yearly Archives:: 2023
Remembering JFK Sixty Years Later
As we approach the 60th commemoration of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his life and legacy have not lost their hold on the imagination of the American public. His famous quotes such as “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” and “We choose… Read more »
UNT @the 2023 National Digital Newspaper Program Meeting
During the week of September 18, 2023, Ana Krahmer and Tim Gieringer from UNT Libraries’ Digital Newspaper Unt represented UNT in the 2023 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) annual meeting, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). This annual meeting is an opportunity for NEH awardees to discuss strategies for preserving newspapers on… Read more »
The Portal to Texas History at the GLO’s Save Texas History Symposium
The Cathy Nelson Hartman Portal to Texas History Endowment was happy to sponsor and host a booth at the Save Texas History Symposium, From San Fernando de Bexar to “The Alamo City:” San Antonio and its History. The symposium was presented by the Texas General Land Office at the Historic Menger Hotel in San Antonio on… Read more »
National Endowment for the Humanities Awards UNT Libraries for a Seventh Round of the National Digital Newspaper Program
Awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to UNT Libraries, a seventh grant round, awarded on 9/1/2023 in the amount of $203,140, will span two years and support addition of 100,000 more Texas newspaper pages to Chronicling America, the Library of Congress’ national repository for U.S. newspapers. Texas will add titles from south- and… Read more »