About: Bruce Coggeshall / Manager, Newspaper Products Group
- Bruce has been at NewsBank since 1992. Today, he supervises a team researching topics in U.S. history to prepare entries for the Timeline Edition of America’s Historical Newspapers. His team also selects articles and writes lesson plans for NewsBank’s Special Reports and Hot Topics.
Posts by Bruce Coggeshall / Manager, Newspaper Products Group:
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Charles Dickens turns 200,
10 Apr 2012
This year marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’ birth. America’s Historical Newspapers contains hundreds of contemporaneous articles about this genius of English literature, as well as reviews of his works and advertisements for his books. Here are a few samples, supplemented by the menu of a banquet held in his honor, found in American Broadsides and Ephemera. In this speech before [...]
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Amundsen, Scott and Their Race to the South Pole,
12 Dec 2011
It was 100 years ago this month that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, reached the South Pole. For the first time, two expeditions were making attempts to get there in the same summer season. Amundsen had been a member of an earlier expedition to Antarctica and had led expeditions in the Arctic. Robert F. Scott [...]
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Pearl Harbor: As Reported the Day After,
07 Dec 2011
Today is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Here’s how four American newspapers reported it the next day on their front pages. For more information about American Newspaper Archives, or to request a free trial, please contact readexmarketing@readex.com. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet
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D.B. Cooper: An American Original,
21 Nov 2011
The first aircraft hijackings were political. Leave it to American ingenuity to monetize the action! D.B. Cooper, not his real name, did it in 1971. Dan Cooper bought a ticket on Thanksgiving Eve 1971 from Portland to Seattle on Northwest Orient Flight 305. During the brief flight, he passed a note to a stewardess claiming to [...]
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Hello, Comrade Philby,
28 Sep 2011
In “Just Browsing: Cool Items from the Past,” I shared several unexpected items I recently stumbled upon in America’s Historical Newspapers. I don’t however expect to find such wonderful things in Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports. What’s cool there comes more from the benefits of hindsight than sheer surprise. And that backward look lets [...]
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Ernest Hemingway: In His Time,
11 Jul 2011
July of 2011 marks 50 years since the suicide of American author and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway ranged far from his Oak Park, Illinois roots as a journalist in Kansas City, an ambulance driver on the Italian front in World War I, an expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, and a war correspondent in the Spanish [...]
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Just Browsing: Cool Items from the Past,
14 Jun 2011
One of the joys of browsing American historical newspapers is discovering the unexpected from around the world. Take this photograph, for example, of a car being dragged across a Siberian river during the Peking-to-Paris race in 1907: Or this photo of European ostrich racing in the 1920s: And then this picture of the same race [...]
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A Dreadful Anniversary: May 31, 1921 (Tulsa, Oklahoma),
31 May 2011
Tulsa’s black community was prosperous in the first decades of 20th century. There were restaurants and theaters, and a shopping district offered fine goods. The African American press of Tulsa called Oklahoma “The Promised Land.” As the Topeka Plaindealer put it on May 28, 1915: “There are seven good churches, and the schools are among [...]
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A Future That Never Arrived,
28 Oct 2010
Buried among the verbiage of a lengthy speech by Nikita Khrushchev from 1960 is a Communist Party plan that I’d never heard before – that the Soviet Union would abolish taxes on workers and employees by 1965, and also shorten their workday! It turns out this was a major Soviet domestic policy in 1960, worthy [...]
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Exploring Mexico’s Revolutions in American Newspapers,
16 Sep 2010
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the initial uprising that would lead to the independence of Mexico from Spain. 2010 is also the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution of 1910, which overthrew President Porfirio Diaz. Both revolutions lasted around a decade. The 1810 uprising is traditionally thought to have begun on September 16. [...]
