If your local library or LDS FHC subscribes to ProQuest you can read these old newspapers online. Many of our ncestors arrived in Baltimore and these papers may have ships arrivals as news and if we are really lucky they may even list passengers. Karen New Historical Newspapers Titles from ProQuest (javascript:showOdiogoReadNowFrame ('270710', 'new historical newspapers titles from proquest', '0', 290, 55);) The following announcement was written by ProQuest: ProQuest has added two newspapers to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers program: * ProQuest Historical Newspapers - The Baltimore Sun (1837-1985) * ProQuest Historical Newspapers – St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922) The Baltimore Sun was founded by Arunah Shepherdson Abell as a people’s paper reporting the news that mattered most to the residents of Baltimore and the nation including Washington D.C. politics, the slave trade and the Civil War, immigration, commerce, Americana, and literature. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-1922) was the first newspaper of Joseph Pulitzer, the father of “Yellow Journalism.” St. Louis served as a gateway to the west and north and was a city of firsts including the first public demonstration of radio communication, first U.S. host of the Olympics, and location of the world’s first skyscraper. To explore the fascinating events captured in these newspapers, contact your ProQuest Account Representative, [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) , (800) 521-0600 x3344 today! Posted by Dick Eastman on June 26, 2009 in _Online Sites_ (http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/online_sites/) | _Permalink_ (http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/06/new-historical-newspapers-titles-f rom-proquest.html)