At this month’s Genealogy over Lunch we will walk through a database the Libraries is considering for purchase – NewspaperArchive.com. It contains digitized newspapers from the United States and 31 other countries, spanning 1607-2020.

In 1865, the writer Luis Victoriano Betancourt published a prose poem titled “To Die for the Fatherland!” It appeared in the workers’ newspaper La Aurora and was likely read out loud in cigar factories. Three years later, Betancourt would …