Tennessee Newspapers 1836 -1922 to be Digitized and Free Online

In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.

“This is telling what the people of the time experienced at the time they experienced it,” says JoAnne Deeken, head of technical services and digital access at the university system’s libraries. “We can relive it through their eyes.”

The state’s history during the period covered by the project includes the forced relocation of American Indians, known as the Trail of Tears, which began in Tennessee; the Battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War; and the state’s ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women’s suffrage the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. Tennessee is “a very important state during this time period,” Ms. Deeken says.

Read the full article at the June 18, 2010 Chronicle.com.

About Leland Meitzler

Leland K. Meitzler founded Heritage Quest in 1985, and has worked as Managing Editor of both Heritage Quest Magazine and The Genealogical Helper. He currently operates Family Roots Publishing Company (www.FamilyRootsPublishing.com), writes daily at GenealogyBlog.com, writes the weekly Genealogy Newsline, conducts the annual Salt Lake Christmas Tour to the Family History Library, and speaks nationally, having given over 2000 lectures since 1983.

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