This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 5 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 2008
Page
13
A crowd of readers from Brownsville, Lawrence, The Historian, Moby-Dick, and The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire are quoted. Participants include Betty Henning, James Pillar, Lisa Patrick, Matt Cahill, Alyson Smith. They discuss favorites, rereads, and challenges of lengthy classic works.
Dallas writer Kathleen Kent recalls hearing of Martha Carrier as a child and now publishes The Heretic's Daughter, a Salem witch trials novel told through an 11 year old's eyes. Little, Brown backs the book with a broad promo push and international editions. Kent tours major cities and expands to a prequel about Martha Carrier's husband, Thomas.
NPR veteran Tom Gjelten traces Bacardi’s rise from a Santiago distillery in 1862 to a global empire while Cuba nationalizes its facilities in 1960. The book covers trademark fights, Havana Club disputes, Batista and Castro eras, and the evolving U S Cuba relations shaping who can sell Cuban rum and under what label.
Derrick Higgins, a student at Eudora Middle School, writes of inner dreams as precious, priceless jewels buried beneath doubt and fear. The poem contrasts lofty aims with personal truth, urging persistence to uncover one’s true aspirations.
A digest of recent top titles spans crime thrillers, fantasy, memoirs, and humor. Kathy Reichs's Devil Bones, Terry Brooks’s The Gypsy Morph, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’s Guernsey, and Dick Francis’s Silks lead a list alongside Tori Spelling’s Story Telling, Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation, Chelsea Handler’s Are You There Vodka, Sedaris’s When You Are Engulfed in Flames, with noted contrasts in tone and subject matter.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.