I strongly encourage everyone who is interested in this to carve out some time to read the old scanned newspapers at https://news.google.com/newspapers https://

I strongly encourage everyone who is interested in this to carve out some time to read the old scanned newspapers at https://news.google.com/newspapers https://news.google.com/newspapers Pick a time range, then follow along reading the paper in a kind of "this day in history" fashion from a variety of papers from the west to midwest to east coast, not just to see what was important then, but how accounts changed. It is fascinating to read accounts from 120-150 years ago. These kind of "classifieds" are cool too--"situation wanted" ads where single women are seeking domestic employment, and cases where men are looking for odd jobs. And then reading about the accidents--deaths from train incidents, boiler explosions, freak deaths. It's easy to get lost in a different time while seeing connections to media and what interested people then and now.