SUNDAY, APRIL 20th | All locations will be closed for the Easter holiday. Regular Sunday hours at the Central and Mt. Washington locations will resume on April 27th.
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This local, historical newspaper source provides genealogists, researchers, and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts from the Louisville Courier-Journal and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society, and events of the time. Available content spans from 1830 through 2000, including not only articles but also editorials, comics, obituaries, classifieds, legal notices, and more. For researchers seeking an authoritative, regional perspective on national and international events, as well as local perspectives on community news, the full-text, digitized pages of this newspaper (1830–2000) are a valuable resource in a variety of fields including history, political science, African-American studies, and genealogy.
Relevant focus areas include:
African American Studies
Agriculture
American History
Culture
Economics
Genealogy
Government
History
Industrialization
Political Science
Sports
The US Civil War
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