This year, the Digital Library of Georgia will be adding a variety of new newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers (GHN) website (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/).  Below is the list of titles currently slated to be added to GHN in the Spring and Summer of 2023. Titles funded by the Chattooga County Historical Society Summerville News, 1949-1979 Titles funded by the Georgia Public Library Service Augusta Voice, 1995-2007 Hazlehurst News, 1909-1929 Monticello News, 1903-1927 Titles digitized in partnership with Georgia State University News (Atlanta Gay Center), 19 ..read more

This winter, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the newly available titles. Titles funded by the Diocese of Savannah Southern Cross (Atlanta), 2001-2008 Titles funded by the Forsyth County Public Library Forsyth County News, 2013-2016, 2018-2019 Titles made available as part of the Georgia Newspaper Project’s Born Digital Program Banks County News (Homer), 2016, 2022 Barrow News-Journal (Winder), 2022 Braselton News, 2018 Jackson Herald (Jefferson), 2022 Madison County Journa ..read more

DLG 2023-2024 Subgrant Call For Proposals The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) DLG is soliciting proposals for historic digitization projects costing up to $7500 in DLG services from non-profit Georgia cultural heritage institutions. To encourage applications from community- based archives, we have removed the requirement that applicant organizations be open to the public, and that their collections be available for public research either by appointment or through regular hours. Project metadata will be included in the DLG portal and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Projects may ..read more

Flannery O’Connor’s Appearances in the Georgia Catholic Diocesan PaperThe Bulletin by Daniel Britt, Mandy Mastrovita, and Donnie Summerlin The Digital Library of Georgia, in conjunction with our partners at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, recently digitized the historic Bulletin newspaper (1920-1962) and made it publicly available on the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. The Bulletin was first published in January 1920 as the official organ for the Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia and shortly became Georgia’s leading Catholic newspaper. In 1963, the publication split into tw ..read more

In September 1974, country music legend Johnny Cash spent several days in west central Georgia to film scenes for an ABC television documentary titled Ridin’ the Rails: The Great American Train Story. Cash hosted and narrated the musical homage to the history of American railroads. It was a memorable occasion for the locals who participated in the production and got to meet with the Man in Black during his brief Georgia stopover. For Johnny Cash, it was a bit of a homecoming. Johnny Cash shaking hands with Melville Brown, who owned the land in Pike County where they filmed portions of the tele ..read more

Selected by statewide cultural heritage stakeholders and funded by the DLG’s competitive digitization grant program, over 3,000 pages of digitized African American funeral programs from Evans County, Georgia, and other Southeastern towns and cities are now freely available in the Digital Library of Georgia and can be seen online here: African American Funeral Programs, 1960-2022 The collection of 637 individual programs dates between 1961-2022, with the birth dates of the people represented going back to 1870. Pharris D. Johnson, former mayor of Bellville, Georgia, chairman of the Savanna ..read more

Selected by statewide cultural heritage stakeholders and funded by the DLG’s competitive digitization grant program, this collection is the Augusta Jewish Museum’s first collaboration with the DLG and is available here: Augusta Jewish Museum Collection The collection contains historical materials dating from 1850 to 2022 that come from a diverse group of Jewish creators, including youth, women, clergy, fraternities, and congregations that offer unique insights into the greater Augusta, Georgia region’s Jewish life, philanthropy, foodways, and experiences. Rabbi David Sirull of the Adas Yeshuru ..read more

by Andrew Allison The Georgia Senate Press Office is the official place for the Georgia Senate to deal with the press and the media. It is a non-partisan office and is responsible for writing and sending out press releases, media advisories, columns, and opinion pieces for each of the 56 Senators at their request. As its director, I’m in charge of our small team, which handles the above-mentioned communication needs and plans communications for the Georgia state Senate as a whole. We also live stream all official Senate meetings and activities on the Senate floor and run all of the Senate’s so ..read more

This year, the Digital Library of Georgia released several new grant-funded newspaper titles to the Georgia Historic Newspapers website. Included below is a list of the newly available titles. Titles digitized in partnership with the Atlanta History Center and Kennesaw State University Southern Voice (Atlanta), 1988-1994 Titles funded by the Farris Cadle Bethesda News (Savannah), 1947-1949 Jewish Alliance (Savannah), 1945-1949 Labor Herald (Savannah), 1909 Reason (Savannah), 1908 Savannah Times, 1881 Savannah Weekly News, 1912 Southern Agriculturist (Savannah), 1872 Weekly News (Savannah), 18 ..read more

Selected by Georgia stakeholders and funded by the DLG, these materials document the Church’s interaction with slavery, emancipation, and religion. These collections are:  Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Ga.) records, 1822-1916.  The names of enslaved church members may be found inside this collection. It’s possible that these are the sole documents proving that some of these people actually existed. There are also records of famous academics and politicians who lived in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Henry Newton papers, 1842-1900.  Henry Newton grew up in Athens, Georg ..read more