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Georgia Historic Newspapers Update Summer 2025

Wilkinson County Bulletin 50th anniversary edition

This past summer, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspapers to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of newly available titles.

Titles funded by the Burke County Genealogical Society

Titles funded by the Charter Foundation of Valley, Alabama and the Chipley Historical Center of Pine Mountain

Titles funded by the Chattooga County Historical Society

Titles funded by the City of Covington

Titles digitized with a donation from Harry Thompson and Chris Jones

Titles funded by the National Digital Newspaper Program with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in partnership with the Auburn Avenue Research Library

Titles funded by the Jack Tarver Library, Mercer University

Titles digitized in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA)

Titles funded by a donation from the Oconee Historical Society

Titles funded by a donation from the Wilkinson County Historical Society with a grant from the Oconee EMC Foundation

Titles digitized by the UGA Libraries

Titles made available as part of UGA’s Libraries Digital Newspaper Preservation Project

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New poster for Georgia Social Studies standard SS3H2

Image of educator resource poster for grade 3 students that includes a newspaper ad referencing the cost of gasoline in Washington DC in 1960.
Image: Evening star (Washington, D.C.), 19 Sept. 1960.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1960-09-19/ed-1/seq-43/

Get the latest printable poster in a series designed for the Georgia K-12 community by the Digital Library of Georgia, based upon the Georgia Social Studies Standards of Excellence.

These resources provide high-quality, standards-aligned materials that help teachers meet their students’ varying academic interests and needs.

The latest poster is for the Georgia 3rd Grade Social Studies Standard of Excellence (GSE) SS3E2 (Economic Understandings):

Explain that governments provide certain types of goods and services in a market economy (schools, libraries, roads, police/fire protection, and military) and pay for these
through taxes.

Title: Evening star (Washington, D.C.), 19 Sept. 1960.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1960-09-19/ed-1/seq-43/

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Rights: 
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/ (opens in new tab)

This resource is in the public domain.

You can download the poster here (opens in new tab)

The poster has been designed to fit an 8.5” x 11” letter-sized sheet of paper, and all content is in the public domain to ensure print accessibility for all students and educators.

Heads up, Georgia K-12 social studies teachers! 

Visit us at https://bit.ly/DLGEducatorResources  (opens in new tab) where you can find:

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