Try finding a newspaper article!
Using the chronology linked above, pick an event that happened after 1851.
Search the New York Times to see if you can find an article that reports on the event within about a month of it happening. You may need to try different keywords and/or use the date limiters, and there's no guarantee that the NYT covered every event.
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Historical New York newspaper.
If you have time, see if you can find a second article using one of the collections below.
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Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
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Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
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American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
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Western states:
Use the date range limit to narrow your search to a relevant time period. To see if a specific newspaper is included in any of these collections, search for the title in the A-Z List of Journal Titles.
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Historical newspapers from every state in the U.S.
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1789-1924
Historical newspapers from the Library of Congress, including Nevada newspapers.
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Black newspaper from Georgia that was the first in the US to publish a daily edition.
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Black newspaper from Maryland that was the first to have correspondents reporting on World War II, foreign correspondents, and female sports correspondents.
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African American newspaper from Chicago, Illinois.
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Major daily newspaper from Chicago.
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Black newspaper from Ohio that played a prominent role in encouraging political participation, Black solidarity and self-reliance.
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Black newspaper from California; the oldest and largest black newspaper in the West.
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Historical California newspaper.
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Black newspaper from Detroit that documents African American culture, history, politics, and the arts.
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Black newspaper from New York that was the largest black community weekly in the United States. Contributors to the newspaper have included W. E. B. Du Bois, Roy Wilkins and Malcolm X.
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Historical New York newspaper.
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Black newspaper from Virginia known for in depth research.
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Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that is the oldest continuously published Black newspaper in the US.
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Black newspaper from Pennsylvania that had a circulation of over 250,000 subscribers.
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Daily newspaper from Washington, DC.
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American newspapers including the New York Herald, Lynchburg Virginian, The Hawaiian Gazette, Rocky Mountain News, Southern Illustrated News (VA), Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago), the Milwaukee Sentinel, and many more.
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