American History

He’ll be singing the blues…

Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:16

The “Omaha Bee News” issue of Sept. 16, 1932 has this interesting report of a a singer destined for jail…

Newspaper error editions… by Rick Brown

Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:16

Rick Brown at Historybuff.com provides some interesting information regarding a couple of known error editions, including the highly collectible “Dewey Defeats Truman” issue of the Chicago Daily Tribune: The Eleven Editions of the November 3, 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune You’ve heard of the famous error paper “Dewey Defeats Truman”. Well, they produced ten more error [...]

Historic Newspapers in the classroom…

Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:16

We received the following note from one of our collector friends and thought our readers might enjoy his note: Dear Tim Hughes and Rare Newspapers: Sir, over the years, I have purchased many newspapers from you on eBay. They have included topics such as: 1795 Boston newspaper with articles about Geo Washington and Sam Adams; [...]

Before the Jane Fonda video…

Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:16

The “Scientific American” issue of Nov. 18, 1911 offers this interesting solution for “…reducing abdominal weight”. I don’t think this one caught on…

Rick Brown’s Primer on Collecting Old & Historic Newspapers…

Updated: 2012-08-31 16:07:16

Several year’s ago, a newspaper enthusiast by the name of Rick Brown had a passion to spread the love of collecting “history in your hands… from the day it was first reported”. One of his efforts was to print a newsletter for the hobby. An early entry was a primer on collecting newspapers. While many [...]

World History Profiles coming soon to Travel and History Blog

Updated: 2012-08-26 17:59:47

We are trying to better organize our very extensive history and travel coverage across many websites and blogs. Here’s an incomplete guide to several history resources you may want to check out: US History – this comprehensive site is one … Continue reading →