... of Congress’ newspaper digitisation project, Chronicling America, alongside a number of other digitised newspaper collections ... , Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington. The Chronicling America team is producing a number of subject guides ... 21 March 1909 (the majority of the newspapers selected for Chronicling America don’t go beyond 1910). My thanks to regular Bioscopist David ...

I don't get excited about too many genealogy websites, but Chronicling America, sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, is an exception. This project is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) and is especially exciting as it is a free site and can be accessed from the comfort of your home. You can browse through issues or ...

The 2009 Fall Classic was the searing face-off many had hoped for — the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees. Eighty-six years after opening the original Yankee Stadium in 1923 with their first World Series title, the Yankees celebrated their inaugural season in the new Yankee Stadium with a record 27th championship. (read more…)

Official ‘2009 World Series Film: Philadelphia Phillies(TM) vs. New York Yankees(R)’ DVD & Blu-ray(TM) Available Nationwide on DVD November 24 and on Blu-ray(TM) High-Def December 15 The 2009 Fall Classic was the searing face-off many had hoped for — the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies against the New York Yankees. Eighty-six years after opening the ...

It looks like Roland Emmerich has completed his diaster trilogy of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and now 2012 with the same motif: overwhelming special effects that bring audience in droves the first few nights until word of mouth spreads there is no substance to any of them. Let me specify that. Independence Day had aliens attacking for no compelling reason anyone could decipher. ...

In their ongoing series chronicling the way New Yorkers ate over a century ago, Diner's Journal finds a 19th century version of a modern day food thread. It starts with reader praising the wonders of scrapple, leads to fellow readers (with usernames of sorts) tweaking recipes, and eventually devolves to insults and political debate.

So. I've decided that I am going to try really really hard to post daily in December. I've done it for the past 2 years now and I loooove going back and reflecting on the days leading up to Christmas. Especially with my kids. It opens up a flood of memories and animated conversations. Today marks the first day of our countdown to Christmas. Typically my boys get the chocolate advent ...

Hey remember White Knight Chronicles? Y’know, that JRPG/Diablo hybrid…thing made by Level 5 that came out Christmas day last year in Japan? Yeah neither do I. This is usually what happens when you release a game in Japan to so-so reviews due to online hiccups (No voice chat? Really?) and then never mention it for a year. Well the PS3 is still surprisingly slim in the JRPG category ...

19:52 Scenes from Stella's: Slightly awkward 20smthings on date, female pretending not to be bored; E. European guy overly suspicious of job offer # 01:25 Brilliant relationship comic bit.ly/4hAgor # 01:42 RT @rstevens via @wigu: The best alternate history you will read today: bit.ly/1J1CI6 /// If Lennon hadn't been shot in 1980 # 01:47 Did RNC health plan cover abortions for employees/ ...

"That Sartorialist guy ain't got nothin' on me" Let me start this post by stating that I mean no disrespect to the many blogs out there dedicated to chronicling fashion. Many of these sites form part of my daily browsing routine and I value their contribution to my style perspective. It's just that there are an awful lot of them out there now and it seems that they ...

Both Time Out Chicago and the Tribune give long-form attention to Sprout chef Dale Levitski today, chronicling his culinary highs and lows from working the line at Blackbird to running Trio to almost winning Top Chef to finally finding redemption at the helm of Sprout. Of course we had to pit the two articles against one another — read on for our highly scientific compare-contrast: ...

My colleague Deirdre Woollard has been entertainingly chronicling former baseball star Lenny Dykstra's travails in bankruptcy court. Now it seems the hard-charging athlete-turned-entrepreneur is trying to raise a little ready money by selling off some of his prized possessions. Among the lots at Patrizzi & Co.'s Dec. 14th Exceptional Watchmaking Masterpieces auction in NYC is Dykstra&# ...

Set Up a Webcam for Chats, Streams and YouTube Videos: "Want to become a YouTube star? Or maybe just video chat with friends across the globe? You'll need to learn how to set up a webcam and a microphone on your computer. Follow these steps and you can start chronicling your life for all to see. " Wired News -

Lately I have been republishing content found on the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection that relates to the struggle for suffrage in the District of Columbia and unique maps that I’ve found along the way. Today’s entry is a social commentary on the role of women in the workforce of the District of Columbia and how the ratio of women to men in the District of Columbia ...

One of the main reasons I started up the Project for the Chronicling of British Baseball (Project Cobb) was to maintain an online registry of research projects being conducted on baseball in Britain. While it has been enjoyable adding projects onto the list, it is also satisfying to cross them off once they are completed.  One such example was a mini-project run by Mark Tobin (the man behind the ...