NDNP Alabama Digital Newspaper Project

FAIN: PJ-287579-22

University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0001)
Lorraine Madway (Project Director: January 2022 to February 2024)
Jessica Kincaid (Project Director: February 2024 to present)
Donald L. Gilstrap (Co Project Director: September 2022 to present)

The digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926.

Digitization of 100,000 pages of microfilmed historic Alabama newspapers, including the Birmingham Age-Herald and the Montgomery Advertiser, published between 1901 and 1926 as part of the state’s participation in the National Digital Newspaper Program

Associated Products

The Alabama History Portal (Web Resource)
Title: The Alabama History Portal
Author: David Ferrara
Author: Belle Johnston
Author: Bailey Tillman
Abstract: The Alabama History Portal is a free teaching resource created by W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama. Here, Alabama's teachers can find resources including interactive history timelines, subject-oriented bibliographies, lesson plans, and primary source galleries.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/ndnp/s/alhistoryportal/page/welcome

Teaching Race and Gender in Alabama through Chronicling America (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Teaching Race and Gender in Alabama through Chronicling America
Author: Lorraine Madway
Author: David Ferrara
Abstract: Presentation on the Alabama History Portal, a free teaching resource created by W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama. Here, Alabama's teachers can find resources including interactive history timelines, subject-oriented bibliographies, lesson plans, and primary source newspaper galleries. Alabama newspaper galleries focused on Slavery, Black Communities Post Reconstruction, the Constitution of 1901, Political Cartoons, and Women's Suffrage.
Date Range: September 19-21, 2023
Location: NDNP Annual Awardee Meeting, Washington, DC, September 21, 2023
Primary URL: https://adhc.lib.ua.edu/ndnp/s/alhistoryportal/page/welcome
Secondary URL: https://guides.loc.gov/national-digital-newspaper-program/2023-ndnp-conference#s-lib-ctab-30511411-2

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