HistoryBuff.com provides primary source materials for students and teachers
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HistoryBuff.com
Description
In 1965, as a Junior in High School, for primary resource material, I purchased an original newspaper announcing that John Wilkes Booth had just been captured and killed. Reading the emotion-filled accounts from actual witnesses suddenly opened a new door for me. Before, my viewpoint of history was that it was just a series of dates, names and events. Reading the actual eyewitness accounts made the names and events come to life. Imagine, being able to hold something in your hands that was "alive" when the event happened -- 100, 200 or even 300 years old!
For the next four years I literally purchased every old newspaper I could find. By 1969 I realized that I was running out of storage room and money so I became a mail order dealer in historic newspapers. Over the next 15 years of dealing, several hundred thousand old newspapers passed through my hands. By 2001, I had sold or brokered well over one million historic newspapers.
In February, 1984, the Newspaper Collectors Society of America was formed and Rick Brown began publishing Collectible Newspapers, a magazine for newspaper collectors. The magazine averaged 24-30 pages per issue and was professionally typeset. Issues were filled with journalism history articles, many of which were researched specifically for Collectible Newspapers. In addition to newspaper collectors, several national institutions subscribed to it. Auctions of historic newspapers were also held by mail and telephone bids. In April, 1997, the last print edition of Collectible Newspapers was produced. The articles in the History Buff Reference Library were originally published in Collectible Newspapers.
Languages
English
Contact
Administrative:
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- LANSING MI
- US 48911-4860
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- (517) 887-1255
Registrant:
- Newspaper Collectors Society of America
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- Lansing MI
- US 48911
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