All around parts of the Mason-Dixon Line, communities are observing the start of the 250th anniversary of the beginning of one of America’s most famous boundaries. The work by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, establishing the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania, took five years, from 1763 to 1768. To settle royal land grants for the…
Newly Launched Newspaper Search Engine Focuses on Searching Historical Papers.
Efficiencies for researchers continue evolving at a rapid pace as important resources are digitized, allowing the materials to move beyond the confines of libraries, historical societies, and archives. These open sourced, easily accessible collections on the web, greatly enhance our ability to study the past, as often untapped materials are available on-demand from a classroom,…
Online Resources Help Researchers Tap Into TV & Radio Broadcasts
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…
Duck and Cover: Remembering the Days of Fallout Shelters, Conelrad, and Sputnik in Harford County
I recently talked about the history of Civil Defense in Harford County for the library system there. The program examined homeland security from World War II to the time when planning for survival of an all-out nuclear attack started fading into the past. Opening with an examination of World War II era blackout drills, plane…