We are pleased to announce that we have added new papers from Mississippi and South Carolina to our archives.
Mississippi: The Sun Herald based in Biloxi, Mississippi, celebrates its 137th birthday this month. It began as The Biloxi Herald in 1884 and was later known as The Daily Herald. In 1985, The Daily Herald merged with The Sun to form The Sun Herald. Our archives date back to 1888 and have chronicled the history of the Mississippi Gulf Coast since that time.
In the late 1800s, the rise of commercial fishing made Biloxi the Seafood Capital of the World, bringing seafood canneries and factory workers to town. Among the workers were exploited immigrant children, some as young as 3-years-old. They worked long days and had little opportunity to attend school. From 1908-1916, photographer Lewis Wickes Hine photographed these workers. His images helped spur action that changed child labor laws in the South.
Biloxi has felt the brunt of many hurricanes over the years. Two of the most notorious were Hurricane Camille in 1969 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As Katrina approached the shore, some of the Sun Herald’s staff evacuated to Columbus, Georgia, where they continued to publish daily editions of the Sun Herald for 11 days until workers restored power to Biloxi. The paper earned the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the storm and its aftermath.
South Carolina: We have new papers from the Palmetto State, including the Cities of Columbia and Greenville. The State began publication in 1891 and later purchased its rival, The Columbia Record. This archive also contains issues of The Sunday Record dated 1918-1932.
Throughout its history, The State has maintained a progressive editorial policy, championing issues like suffrage and civil rights. One legal case brought the legal rights of women to center stage in South Carolina. Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Jr., was the son of a popular U.S. senator from South Carolina. When he and his wife and Lucy Tillman divorced in 1910, they engaged in a bitter custody battle over their two children. Lucy wanted custody, but Benjamin argued that his parents should raise the children. Benjamin “deeded” the children to them, igniting women around the country. They demanded that Lucy (and all women) should have equal rights. The state Supreme Court eventually sided with Lucy, saying children could not be deeded without the consent of both parents.
About 100 miles northwest of Columbia is Greenville, South Carolina, and home of The Greenville News. Our archives date back to 1881 when Greenville was on the cusp of becoming a major mill town and textile center. The Greenville News chronicled the population surge in the early 1900s and the new trolley linking the mills to downtown. Greenville’s prosperity took a hit when the boll weevil decimated crops in 1926. Banks failed, and the ensuing depression impacted the city in an economic downturn that lasted until WWII ended. If you have ancestors from Greenville, be sure to check out the society page, birth announcements, wedding announcements, and obituaries.
Explore these new Mississippi and South Carolina papers on Newspapers.com™ today!
What a wonderful accomplishment. On behalf of many, thank you for your contribution and best wishes to continue with your mission.
I am looking for north Carolina and New Jersey newspapers
I would be very happy to see The Post & Courier from Charleston, SC as well as some of the local publications added soon.
I would like that,too.
Yeah, and in New Jersey, how about The Jersey Journal?
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Another South Carolina paper I would be very happy to see you add is The Twin-City News from Batesburg-Leesville, SC.
The more, the merrier. Thank you.
I am looking for information regarding an attempted murder trial which was brought to court Feb. 20, 1872. The Mulherin Case.
Any “Stalnaker” News bits-1860-1880.
I am glad to see South Carolina newspapers being added. However you left out the eastern area of the state where so many lived near the sea like Horry County and Marion County.
I wish you would add the Greenville News sister paper, “The Greenville Piedmont”, that was an afternoon paper Also delivered by carrier! The paper is on microfilm currently at the Greenville library
Yes, Thank you for adding more newspapers from South Carolina. Much history is in SC as it was one of the original 13 colonies. Would love to see more newspapers from eastern seacoast towns in Horry County, especially any that have survived from the early 1800s in Horry County SC. Thanks again
Do you have any newspapers in Alabama. The last time I joined there was only 2 small town newspapers. Before I join, I would like to know what you have.
I do some research in their North Alabama papers. What area of the state are you interested in?
Would love to see the Spartanburg Herald & The Spartanburg Journal added. Thanks
Many of these can be accesed online. There is an index, most editions prior to 2006 are on Google, others on the index can be accessed online at the Kennedy Room, main Spartanburg County Library. If you are not local they may email them to you or there are local researchers who will.
Perhaps an article on HOW new content is chosen. I would guess most has to be public domain (pre 1926) and available on microfilm. Does the company buy the microfilm and then digitize it? Borrow it from some source? I know it is a slow process. I would like to see more content for Kentucky. The University of Kentucky libraries has nearly every surviving Kentucky paper in their microfilm collections and perhaps the company could work closely with them.
These are not just pre 1926 public domain papers. The premium subscription provides access to current papers and to Hearst papers not otherwise available. There does need to be a “lease” arrangement for newspapers to be included and this is between the papers and the company. FWIW, non inclusion is not always the company’s issue. I have had a library tell me they held the local paper and it would never be online anywhere.
Hello, I was wondering if you could publish newspapers from Las Cruces Sun-News (Las Cruces, New Mexico) from 1978 all the way to 2021 because after 1977 you release newspapers from Las Cruces Sun-News starting from this year and not the ones from 1978-2020.