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At a rapid pace these days, old newspapers are being digitized and made openly available to researchers and as I work on projects I often found additional collections of these valuable publications.  That was the case recently, as I worked on the “Flight 214 Remembrance Program” to mark the passage of fifty years since a…

While at the College of Southern Maryland doing a program on communications and newspapers during the War of 1812, the audience was interested in some of the digital newspapers that are now available online for researching this era.  We had talked about how editors gathered and distributed news during the times when the region was on…

There are significant online resources to help scholars and the public locate and use video and audio recordings of broadcasts, and we are seeing some great advances in this area.  One of those involves the Internet Archive, a source of web-based content since the late 1990s.  Beginning with printed matter and websites, the aggregator and…

The Eastern Shore of Virginia has a number of helpful research repositories for those studying the past and one of those is the Eastern Shore Public Library.  It’s about halfway down the Peninsula, between the State Line and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, in the county seat town of Accomac.  This regional system, serving Accomack and…