Digitized newspapers give readers eye-witness accounts of Tennessee history

[greenego]

This is petty neat and you tax dollars at work. Not just TN newspapers.

Digitized newspapers give readers eye-witness accounts of Tennessee history » Knoxville News Sentinel

Historic American Newspapers - Chronicling America (The Library of Congress)

[Murgatroy]

I think this is a very worthwhile endeavor.

While textbooks are great for learning, this is another marvelous tool to help educate children and adults alike of those times and eras.

I am sure that the newspapers are just a skewed as our today, but they will have quotes and day to day accounts of what happened.

By making them available in digital media, you are opening the door to millions, where as if you had only one copy of a surviving paper, you would be limited to who and how it could be used.

[Guest Anadais]

I work in preservation and archives, and this project is absolutely amazing. By digitizing the newspapers the accessibility of the material increases, which is not only beneficial in the academy, but also for the masses in general.

Through my own research in the archives, I have been able to access many of the newspapers that are digitized. Reading the newspapers allows for a greater cultural understanding of events as they took place, versus just reading a historian’s view of what he “thought†took place.

It is a great resource!