Monthly Archives:: November 2024

New Historical Texas Newspapers Available on Chronicling America

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Laredo, Texas--The Future Great Railroad Centre and Grand Gateway of International Commerce.

As part of UNT Libraries’ seventh round of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grant funding awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress has begun uploading more Texas newspaper issues to Chronicling America, the digital repository for historic U. S. newspapers. This seventh round of funding, focused on adding south- and… Read more »

Early Texas Inventions on The Portal to Texas History

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This post was written by Madelin Villanueva, a UNT Emerald Eagle Scholar and biomedical engineering major, who is completing an internship in Digital Libraries this semester. Did you know that many Texans invented early versions of the same medical devices we use today? Bandage Leah M. Kirwan patented the bandage pictured below on August 9,… Read more »