2019 Selection materials

Administrative Information

• List of members

• Grant narratives

  • 2019/2021

• Orientation slides

  • December 2020 meeting

• Selection guidelines

• Selection options

  • Round 1

  • Round 2

• Title lists

  • Round 1

  • Round 2

Selection Resources

• County map of newspapers digitized by DLG

• Map of Georgia counties and their seats

• Counties and courts

• Georgia History Timeline

• Rowell's & Ayer's American Newspaper Directories

• Chronicling America

• National Digital Newspaper Program: Impact Study 2004-2014

SELECTION OPTIONS

Progressive-Era Georgia

The Progressive Era Georgia option contains newspapers from different regions of the state published during the national Progressive Era (1890-1920). The papers published during this time period carried news about the efforts of the New South movement, the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, the Populist, Suffrage, and Civil Rights movements in Georgia, and the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.

Atlanta Georgian: Single Title Run

This selection option would focus solely on digitizing the Atlanta Georgian newspaper. The publication was purchased by newspaper mogul William Randolph Hurst in 1912. Under the editorial leadership of his son R. A. Hurst, the paper took a yellow journalism approach and was the third largest paper in the city in the 1920s. The selection of this option would highlight the history of Georgia’s capital during the late Progressive Era and the practices of sensationalist journalism in the United States during that period.

Unrepresented Georgia Counties

This selection option would focus on Georgia counties that are not currently represented in online digitized newspaper collections. The publications from this selection list are from smaller communities and consist largely of weekly newspapers of record published between 1880 and 1925.

DLG Newspaper Information

Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN)

Forthcoming Titles