About Your Instructor: Gena Philibert-Ortega
Course Access: November 21 - December 18, 2022
Course Objectives and Outline
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Newspapers: Background and Types
History
Newspapers Communities: Introduction
Geographic Communities
African American Communities
Ethnic and Foreign Language Communities
Religious Communities
Labor Communities
Academic Communities
Military Newspapers
Special Interest Newspapers
Key Points and Discussion
Lesson 1 Quiz
Introduction
Basic Newspaper Design
Vital Records Events in Newspapers: Obituaries
Vital Records Events in Newspapers: Births
Vital Records Events in Newspapers: Engagements and Marriages
Vital Records Events in Newspapers: Divorces
The Social and Local Column
Women's Pages
The Back of the Newspaper: Classifieds and Legal Notices
Other Newsworthy Events
What Will You Find?
Key Points and Discussion
Lesson 2 Quiz
Finding Modern Newspapers
Finding Historical Newspapers with the US Newspaper Directory
Other Online Sources for Finding Historical Newspapers
Finding Newspapers Off-line
Newspapers on Microfilm
Tips for Reading Microfilm
Print / Bound Newspapers
Published Newspaper Indexes
Digital Newspapers Program
Accessing Newspaper Databases
Key Points and Discussion
Self-Guided Exercise
Searching Online Newspapers
Advanced Search Techniques
Searching for ...
Search Multiple Newspapers
Using Newspapers Online: Introduction
Obituary Websites
Google News Archive
Chronicling America
Newspapers.com
Genealogybank.com
Ancestry.com’s Historical Newspaper Collection
Additional Online Newspaper Resources
Key Points and Discussion
Self-Guided Exercise
Why Newspapers?
Newspapers and Records
Analyzing an Obituary
Summarizing an Obituary
Using Newspapers to Follow Up
Using Newspapers for Historic Context
Examples of Historic Context
Newspapers and Social History
Self-Guided Exercise
Key Points and Discussion
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