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Free access to digitized African American newspapers as far back as 1847 from the Library of Congress Chronicling America website. Though the search result highlighted below focuses on African American newspapers, the website includes U.S. newspapers from 1777-1963, more than 17 million pages! Some records also contain the history of and interesting information about that newspaper. [List of 128 African American newspapers with digitized content in Chronicling America -- htt...ps://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/newspapers/] Here is an excerpt from the history of the Arizona Sun: "Doc F. Benson and Howard H. Pullins started the weekly African American newspaper, the Arizona Sun, in Phoenix, Arizona, in April 1942. Under its masthead, the Democratic newspaper stated, "Published in the interest of Social, Political and Economic Welfare of 15,000 Negroes of Arizona." This was updated to 60,000 in 1949 to reflect the growing African American population in Arizona. In October 1950, the Arizona Sun's new masthead incorporated a drawing of the sun rising over the mountains with saguaro cacti in the valley below. The Arizona Sun was the only African American newspaper published in Phoenix during the 1940s and 1950s, after the Phoenix Index ceased about 1943 and before the Arizona Tribune began in 1958. During that time, the newspaper listed at the top of every front page: "Read Arizona's Only Negro Newspaper."]" The Chronicling America project is a cooperative effort by libraries and historical societies across the United States to scan the pages of historical, often rare and fragile, print newspapers held in collections across this nation. Penn State University Libraries is a major contributor to the Chronicling America database. [Arizona Sun July 7, 1944] #psulibraries

The World responds to the U.S. Presidential Inauguration -- a sampling of non-U.S. English-language newspaper front pages for January 21, 2021. Brought to you through the PressReader database. PressReader offers Penn State students, faculty, and staff thousands of national and international newspapers, on their day of publication and in more than 60 languages! Explore PressReader through the University Libraries at https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462. #psulibraries

Many of these U.S. newspapers are available to Penn State students, faculty, and staff through the Libraries PressReader database https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462. Also available are thousands of of international newspapers and magazines in more than 60 languages.

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Secretary Boockvar alerted PA voters who applied for but have not received their mail ballot that they can vote by provisional ballot at their polling place on ...Election Day. https://media.pa.gov/Pages/State-details.aspx?newsid=428 Learn more about provisional ballots: http://votesPA.com/ProvisionalBal

For all our Pennsylvania followers... visit Votespa.com for election information. https://www.votespa.com/Pages/default.aspx

For Pennsylvania voters: To find your polling place, track your ballot, and other voting questions, visit https://votespa.com (be careful if you type the name to be sure you arrive on a legitimate site). For information on voting in other states, visit https://vote.gov/ or go directly to the website of your local elections office. Vote.gov will help you find that link.

"This exercise is an eye-opening look at how this map might have affected our view on the worldconcerns that were raised as far back as the early 20th century." "To uncover these often-stark differences, the True Size Map was createda interactive website that allows you to drag countries and continents around the Mercator projection and discover just how big they are (or aren’t). You can do this for any country by simply typing its name into the map, allowing for a seemingl...y endless amount of comparisons." For more map exploration, visit the University Libraries digital maps collection, freely accessible online, at https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digit/collection//search https://mymodernmet.com/true-size-world-map/. https://mymodernmet.com/true-size-world-map/"

The World says GOODBYE to 2020, HELLO to 2021! (Brought to you through the PressReader database which gives Penn State students, staff, and faculty access to thousands of full-page national and international newspapers and magazines. To read the entire publication and discover new ones, go to https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462.) #psulibraries

New Years Day 2021 -- What's on the front pages of newspapers from around the country (Brought to you through the PressReader database which gives Penn State students, staff, and faculty access to thousands of full-page national and international newspapers and magazines. To read the entire publication and discover new ones, go to https://libraries.psu.edu/eresources/psu01462.) #psulibraries

Today, December 1, Penn State’s sixth #GivingTuesday, is an opportunity to remind our students that they are a part of a community that believes in their potential. It is a chance to show support for the people and programs that shape our University and to remind our friends and neighbors that We Are a community that stands beside one another and invests in a better, brighter future together. Last year, more than7,600 gifts were made to raise over $710,000 in less than 48-ho...urssupport that not only encouraged student efforts across the Commonwealth, but also helped to provide a foundation for Penn Staters to stay in pursuit of their dreams through unexpected challenges. Will you join us? https://tinyurl.com/GT20-psulibs Online giving is open NOW through tomorrow @ 11:59pm EST. During this #GivingTuesday, the University Libraries seeks to raise $38,500 to purchase the ‘African Diaspora 1860-Present’ collection. This global collection includes 100,000 pages of primary sources, rare books, government documents, letters, periodicals, videos, and so much more. (Diaspora refers to the scattering of a people away from an established homeland.) Providing the global Penn State community access to these never-before-seen resources will bring to the front authentic Black voices and the historical movement of African people. This collection will reach thousands of students, faculty, and staff in many disciplines: African, African American, and Latin American Studies; English; and History. The research will be used by the University Libraries communities including the Center for Black Digital Research, the Colored Conventions Project, and the Black Women's Organizing Archive. Thank you for championing libraries in past campaigns and thank you for considering making a contribution in this one. #psulibraries #GivingTuesday #TogetherWeAre

Curious about the global reaction to the U.S. election? Visit the PressReader database through the Libraries website, accessible to Penn State staff, students and faculty. View the front pages and read the contents of more than 2,300 national and international newspapers. https://www-pressreader-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/cata #psulibraries

"The researchers hope their work will help those charged with creating fake news detectors to develop more robust models and strengthen methods to detect and filter-out malicious comments, ultimately helping readers get accurate information to make informed decisions."