NHD 2020 Historic Newspapers As Primary Sources

NHD 2020 Historic Newspapers as Primary Sources

Melissa Jerome University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries • Chronicling America overview • Search tips Presentation Overview • Breaking Barriers • Aviation • Suffrage • Transportation • UFDC overview • Other resources

2 Chronicling America

ChronAm is a database of historic newspapers published in the United States and its territories • 46 states + PR • 1690 to 1963 • 15 million newspaper pages • Text-searchable • Free!

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ 3 ChronAm Features

Search options: • General • Advanced • All newspapers

4 ChronAm Features

5 ChronAm Features Use these options Use these options Full screen view! Save pdf to change page to change issue

Zoom in/out by Zoom in and clicking these clip something buttons. Can of interest. also use mouse scroll

6 Search Tips

When searching think about… • Vocabulary • Historic spelling • Change in terms • Typos • Search parameters • Change scope to get more useful results • Diversify name searches • Affiliated organizations, businesses, and governing bodies • SAVE!

7 Breaking Barriers

• Aviation • Women’s Suffrage • Transportation

8 Aviation

• 1910: First powered flight by Lincoln Beachey Orange County Fair Orlando

• 1912: First fight school founded by Glenn Curtiss in Miami Beach

• 1914: Tony Jannus made first flight with passenger on St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line

• Florida was major training site for US Military during WWI & WWII

9 Ruth Law

• First female pilot to fly in FL skies

• Purchased first plane at 24yo from Orville Wright in 1912

• 1915 nation’s first woman to perform “loop the loop”

• Set nation’s flight record in 1916 for longest non-stop flight (Chicago to NY); record for men and women

• Not the only aviatrix! • Harriet Quimby • Laura Bromwell • Adrienne Bolland • Amelia Earhart

10 Suffrage 1920: 19th amendment was ratified “single largest extension of democratic voting rights in our nation’s history”

Organizations: • NAWSA: National American woman suffrage association • NWP: national woman’s party Some important figures • Susan B. Anthony • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Alice Paul • Carrie Chapman Catt

African American Suffragists • Sojourner Truth • Ida B. Wells • Mary Church Terrell • Mary Talbert 11 Transportation

1836: First train Lake Wimico & St. Joseph line connected St. Joseph to Apalachicola River – initially mule-drawn

1860: First line - Fernandina Beach to Cedar Key

1880s: Real development after Civil War • Henry B. Plant- Tampa & West coast • Henry Flagler- Jax & East coast • (1912) Overseas Highway- first railroad connecting Key West with mainland

1900: more than 3,000 miles worth of tracks

12 UFDC

• Historic & current • Over 15 million pages • More than 300 collections • Newspapers • Florida history • Florida photographs • Maps • Oral Histories

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ 13 Florida Digital Newspaper Library

• Historic & current • Over 2 million pages • All 67 counties represented • Subcollections • Jewish • Ethnic

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/newspapers 14 Florida History & Heritage

• Primary & secondary resources • Photographs • Government documents • Periodicals • Statistical reports

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/fhpc 15 SPOHP Oral Histories

• 3,600 interviews online • Transcripts • Audio • Photographs • Native Americans • African Americans • Women

https://ufdc.ufl.edu/oral 16 Resources

Collections: • Chronicling America • UFDC

Other: • UFNDNP Blog • Aviation + Ruth Law • Henry Flagler • Smithsonian Learning Lab • Edsitement • Chronicling + mapping suffrage • Florida Memory • Local library

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