Author: Donnie Summerlin

Throughout 2017, the Digital Library of Georgia added both new and previously digitized newspaper titles to its recently released Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Below is a list of newspapers titles slated to be added to GHN in the first half of 2018.

In the winter of 2018, DLG will add the following newspapers:

• Early County News (Blakely), 1863-1924
• Houston Home Journal (Perry), 1990-1993
• Lyons Progress, 1905, 1911-1924
• Montgomery Monitor (Mount Vernon), 1886-1922
• Toombs County Local (Vidalia), 1911
• Vidalia Advance, 1904, 1920-1927

In addition, DLG will incorporate antebellum-era issues of multiple Augusta newspaper titles:

• Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, 1792-1802
• Augusta Herald, 1799-1821
• Augusta Mirror, 1840
• Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 1853-1859
• Daily Constitutionalist, 1851-1859
• Democratic Champion, 1844
• Georgia State Gazette, or Independent Register, 1786-1789
• Southern Centinel and Gazette of the State, 1795-1796
• Southerner, 1840
• Tri-Weekly Constitutionalist, 1850-1867
• Tri-Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel, 1851-1875
• Tri-Weekly Republic, 1849-1851
• Washingtonian, or, Total Abstinence Advocate, 1842-1843
• Weekly States’ Rights Sentinel, 1836

As part of the CLIR-funded project between Atlanta University Center, Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, and DLG, we will be adding the following student newspapers:

• Gammon Theological Seminary’s The Foundation
• ITC’s The Center and The Lantern
• Morehouse College’s Maroon Tiger
• Morris Brown College’s The Wolverine Observer
• Spelman College’s The Campus Mirror and The Spelman Spotlight

Additionally, the DLG will incorporate the following previously released newspaper archives into GHN:

• • Red and Black Archive
  • Savannah Historic Newspapers Archive
  • South Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive

We will continue to update users on future newspaper digitization projects in the coming months as part of our effort to expand the holdings of the GHN website.