Today is National Chewing Gum Day! At the NJ Digital Newspaper Project office, we realized that Wrigley’s Gum makes frequent appearances in the newspapers — so frequent that two of us wrote blog posts about them! We’re sharing both posts…
Surprisingly, or maybe not so surprisingly, a lot of headlines in the NJ Digital Newspaper Project papers deal with deaths and tragedy. I suppose this is to be expected, after all, tragedy nets an increase in views, or–at least in…
It is easy to overlook or be unaware of the strides that marginalized people made in order to enact changes in society. Sometimes, the impacts of these changes in civil rights can show up in unexpected ways. When someone thinks of…