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• California Digital Newspaper Collection• Using the Corsair Archive• Use of the Corsair in Teaching• Other Local History Resources

CALIFORNIA DIGITAL NEWSPAPER COLLECTION

CDNC website: http://cdnc.ucr.edu• Shared, cross-searchable database of California newspapers• Mostly short runs, mostly 19th century• Online help• About the CDNC• Access the Corsair archive from the Library website:

http://library.smc.edu/• Corsair 1929-2010 is on CDNC

• Later issues on Issu: http://issuu.com/corsairnews• Current issues here: http://www.thecorsaironline.com

EXAMPLES OF CORSAIR ARTICLES

• 'Corsair' selected as new name for College paper 'Samojac‘

• Students Select 'Santa Monica City College'

• Long-Awaited College Campus Becomes Reality

• Homecoming Pictorial (1955)• He Brings Touch Of Classical

USING HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS IN TEACHING

Why?• Newspapers as primary source

materials• Encourages critical thinking• Examine trends, issues and events

Research topics• Famous people that have visited SMC• Technology changes, 1929- (1930 article)• Cultural changes• How were historical events covered? (

Internment)• What don’t they write about?

USING HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS IN TEACHING

Disciplines which might use local history resources

History Journalism English

ESL Political Science Ethnic Studies

Women’s Studies

Sociology Psychology

OTHER LOCAL HISTORY RESOURCESOn the CDNC website: http://cdnc.ucr.edu• Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, 1873-1910) • Los Angeles Star (Los Angeles, 1851-1864)

On the SMC Library website: http://library.smc.edu• LA Times (Historical, 1881-1988)• LA Times (Current, 1985-)

On the Santa Monica Public Library local history website• Santa Monica Outlook (1975-1928)• Photo collections

On the Los Angeles Public Library website• Visual Collections• Research Guides• LA City Databank

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