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Forthcoming Historic Newspapers – Spring 2019

This year, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding a variety of new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website. Below is a list of newspapers titles slated to be added to GHN in the Spring of 2019.

Georgia HomePLACE-funded newspaper titles:

  • Banks County Gazette (Homer), 1890-1897
  • Banks County Journal (Homer), 1897-1902
  • Banks County Observer (Homer), 1888-1889
  • Barnesville Gazette, 1884-1885
  • Barnesville News-Gazette, 1868-1925
  • Barrow Times (Winder), 1919-1921
  • Butts County Progress, 1907-1915
  • Commerce News, 1908
  • Daily Gazette (Barnesville), 1884
  • Danielsville Monitor, 1894-1926
  • Farmer’s Journal (Homer), 1889
  • Forest News (Jefferson), 1875-1881
  • Forsyth County News (Cumming), 1917-1953
  • Harmony Grove Echo, 1894-1897
  • Jackson Argus, 1895-1902
  • Jackson Economist (Winder), 1896-1900
  • Jackson Herald (Jefferson), 1881-1926
  • Jackson News, 1882
  • Jackson Progress-Argus, 1902-1924
  • Middle Georgia Argus, 1881-1891
  • North Georgian (Cumming), 1906-1923
  • Northeastern Progress (Harmony Grove), 1878
  • Orthodox Democrat (Barnesville), 1889
  • Reform World (Winder), 1896
  • Weekly Journal (Homer), 1889-1890
  • Winder News, 1913-1923

National Digital Newspaper Program-funded newspaper titles:

  • Brunswick Daily News, 1903-1906
  • Brunswick News, 1900-1902
  • Brunswick News, 1906-1922
  • Brunswick Times, 1889-1900
  • Brunswick Times-Call, 1900-1902

CLIR-funded newspaper titles:

  • Athenaeum (Morehouse College)
  • Maroon Tiger (Morehouse College)

Titles to be added in partnership with Ingram Library, University of West Georgia:

  • West Georgian (Carrollton), 1933-2007
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Forthcoming Newspapers

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:

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.

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