Forthcoming Newspapers

In July 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 over the next six months.

In the fall of 2017, DLG will add the following newspapers:

• Flagpole Magazine (Athens), 1987-2012
• Houston Home Journal (Perry), 1990-1993
• Walker County News (LaFayette), 1880-1924

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

• Augusta Chronicle and Gazette of the State, 1792-1802
• Augusta Evening Dispatch, 1858-1861
• Augusta Herald, 1799-1821, 1838
• Augusta Mirror, 1840
• Augusta Washingtonian, 1843-1845
• Columbian Sentinel, 1806-1809
• Constitutionalist and Republic, 1851
• Daily Chronicle & Sentinel, 1853-1859
• Daily Constitutionalist, 1851-1859
• Daily Constitutionalist and Republic, 1853-1854
• Democratic Champion, 1844
• Georgia State Gazette, or Independent Register, 1786-1789
• Georgia Weekly Constitutionalist, 1848-1850
• Mirror of the Times, 1808-1814
• Southern Field and Fireside, 1859-1864
• 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 Chronicle & Sentinel, 1851-1860
• 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:

• Milledgeville Historic Newspapers Archive
• Red and Black 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.