Remembering Tulsa: Perspectives from Three African American Newspapers, Past and Present
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The Gonzales Inquirer
The UNT Libraries’ Digital Newspaper Unit has digitized historic issues of The Gonzales Inquirer for Chronicling America, the Library of Congress’s repository of historic American newspapers. The UNT Libraries have received National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to contribute Texas Newspapers to Chronicling America. The 2016-2018 award… Read more »
Pick Your Own Path: The Magic Continues
The Digital Newspaper Unit’s own Sara McNiel worked hard all week to complete this blog post for you. Please enjoy! After getting to see some famous faces, you start to like this new circus and grow even more eager to see what else it holds. You and your brothers navigate your way through the… Read more »
Pick Your Own Path–Stumbling through Time and Space?
Sara McNiel continues the story this week by taking our protagonists to even more places than they could have ever imagined. We hope you enjoy this story. You’ve had the time of your life exploring the circus, and you just can’t stop seeing more. As you wander, you glimpse pointed red and yellow cloth, sticking… Read more »
Take a Ride on the Katy Flyer! (Part I)
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas passenger train, eventually called the “Katy train,” the “Katy Flyer” or the “Texas Special,” first crossed the Red River from Oklahoma to Texas in 1872. After this crossing, the city of Denison was established on September 23, 1872, according to Folklore in Motion. The Katy train is mentioned frequently in the Texas Digital… Read more »
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