News of the US

November 9, 2011

Take a quick spin around America of the early nineteenth century and get the latest news from Congress, the world of fashion, police blotters and updates on recent Indian attacks.  You’ll be entertained and and amazed as how much…and how little..things have changed in our great nation since its early days, as recorded in newspapers of the time.   Researcher Mary Bowden, mining the Bound Newspaper Archive of the University of Texas, furnishes us with a weekly update of this feature, which tours the reader through a sampler of the historical, notorious and mundane moments that have defined us as a people.  If ever there were a lesson in the importance of news media in our society, this is it.  Visit  this week’s News of the US on our Viewpoint page.