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Newspaper Archives Indexes Morgues Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress

The project has microfilmed 990,332 pages with $397,893 in NEH support. The project has cataloged 4,500 titles and microfilmed 3.3 million pages. North Carolina has microfilmed 3 million pages of newspapers such as theNorth Carolina Gazette, first published in 1751. I and a lot of other people started thinking this could be the future of the news business. Independent ลงประกาศหนังสือพิมพ์เชิญประชุม publishing in the English colonies is considered to have begun with James Franklin’s New-England Courant . Freedom of the press was advanced in a landmark case in 1735 when John Peter Zenger, a New York City newspaper publisher, was acquitted of libel on the defense that his political criticism was based on fact. Another independent, though less flamboyant, paper, The New York Times, appeared 10 years later. By the mid-19th century, there were 400 dailies and 3,000 weekly papers in the United States. I’ve been reading several upstate newspapers on my laptop lately, and I’m wondering h