{"id":1279,"date":"2013-11-19T02:47:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T02:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2013-11-19T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T15:41:33","slug":"digital-online-newspapers-for-researching-the-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/digital-online-newspapers-for-researching-the-war-of-1812\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Online Newspapers for Researching the War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1280\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1280        \" alt=\"&quot;The War&quot; a newspaper published in New York during the War of 1812\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?resize=287%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"287\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?w=1527&amp;ssl=1 1527w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?resize=814%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 814w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?resize=636%2C800&amp;ssl=1 636w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/The-War-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The War&#8221; a newspaper published in New York during the War of 1812. Photo Credit: The Blog &#8211; I Found it at the Wilkinson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While\u00a0at the College of Southern Maryland doing a program on communications and newspapers during the War of 1812, the audience was interested in some of the digital newspapers that are now available online for researching this era.\u00a0 We had talked about how editors gathered and distributed news during the times when the region was on the front line of the war, and in discussion session afterwards members were curious about the newspapers.\u00a0 They asked questions such as how so many survived, what the production process was like, and how to access them online.<\/p>\n<p>While there are a number of digital collections of broadsheets online from subscription e-content providers, there are some great free ones too.\u00a0\u00a0One, a seldom used newspaper called \u201cThe War,\u201d is a resource\u00a0researchers of this period will find of interest.\u00a0 Printed in New York from 1812 to 1817 by Samuel Woodworth, the publisher devoted the paper to documenting the war\u00a0for subscribers.\u00a0\u00a0He also sought to make\u00a0create\u00a0a history of those alarming times.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu\/metsnav\/common\/navigate.do?oid=VAC2929\">\u201cThe War\u201d<\/a> has been digitized by the Lilly Library and Indiana University, thus making the pages available to a broad audience.\u00a0\u00a0 Also there is the <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/\">digital newspaper project at the Library of Congress.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This online resource came to our attention as a result of a post we read on the blog \u201cI<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/rring\/2013\/03\/13\/scarce-newspaper-on-war-of-1812\/\"> found it at the Watkinson\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1281\" style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/war-3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1281\" alt=\"&quot;The War&quot; a War of 1812 newspaper digitized by Indiana University.  Photo Credit:  Indiana University.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/war-3.jpg?resize=489%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"489\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/war-3.jpg?w=489&amp;ssl=1 489w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/war-3.jpg?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The War&#8221; a War of 1812 newspaper digitized by Indiana University. 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