By: Ardis E. Parshall - September 21, 2012 I love old newspapers, and I read a lot of them. As with modern newspapers, they can be hasty, biased, incomplete, and just plain wrong. But there is an excitement in newspapers, an immediacy that you don’t often find in histories written long after the event: I can seldom shake the awareness that a historian writing about a past event knows just how everything is going to turn out, while...
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