Seventy-five years ago, a sea of people gathered in Trafalgar Square under a banner on Nelson's Column which declared 'Victory Over Germany 1945'.

A British holiday resort is due to reopen as it completes the 10-month £2.7million restoration. Great Yarmouth's Waterways was a big hit in the 1950s and people say it is 'magnificent'.

The move follows a study showing chain stores are closing outlets at a record rate of 16 a day, ripping the heart out of communities and creating ghost towns.

Monday's site is where the US processed Cuban exiles who fled Castro's communist regime. Rubio was accused of embellishing his parents' story to make it seem like they were among them.

Former Bury director Joy Hart believes the club's battle to preserve their English Football League status is "looking fairly positive" with Tuesday's deadline looming.

Politicians taking part in Prime Minister's Questions from the safety and comfort of their own homes were upstaged by their grandchildren and their interior design sense - or lack of it.

A report released today by the New York City Department of Health showed 2,279 new diagnoses were recorded in 2016 - a nine percent drop from the 2,493 new cases in 2015.

Kate wore a shalwar kameez by Pakistani brand Gul Ahmed as the touched down in Lahore with William today. The historic label sells its traditional outfits for around £20 and £50.

A secure visa-free land corridor has been created for Indian Sikhs travelling to the shrine of the religion's founder Guru Nanak in Kartarpur, which lies just 2.5 miles inside Pakistan.

Boris Johnson's sombre television address last night marked a moment in this nation's life which all who watched it are likely to remember for as long as they live. 

Grace Leer, 29, nabbed American Idol's last Top 20 spot on Sunday's episode of the show after fans picked her over fellow contestant Lauren Mascitti, 28.

Israel's prime minister travelled to the West Bank today to celebrate the US announcement that it does not consider Israeli settlements a violation of international law.

Prince Charles is asking politicians to protect Britain's historic bond with Germany. Some see the move as a push for a softer Brexit as he says he wants the friendship with Germany to continue.

Clinton herself appeared live on video to thank delegates and celebrate her big night after becoming the first female presidential nominee of a major party on Tuesday night.

Pompeo arrived in Doha from Washington. The deal will be signed in the afternoon by U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

If his recovery goes to plan, Tiger Roll will return to action in the Boyne Hurdle at Navan in February - a race he won last year - before bidding for a fifth Cheltenham Festival victory.

Sportsmail's LAWRENCE BOOTH rounds up the best of the stats that came out of the action following West Indies stunning comeback victory over England on day five at Headingley.

The concepts brought to life by UK firm LeaseFetcher - which include a behemoth suspended beneath two giant corkscrews - were all patented.

Danish experts found that hyenas had undergone complex migrations across various continents, with African and Eurasian lineages being more distinct than thought.

US crude oil futures turned negative on Monday for the first time in history, ending the day at a stunning minus $37.63 a barrel as traders sold heavily because of rapidly filling storage space.

Space X's final parachute test passed with flying colors ahead of its launch in May It will be the US's first manned in nearly nine years.

A Lok Satta report on the recently concluded AP signature campaign that met and exceeded the target of 10 million (one crore) signatures, indicating the support for local government empowerment amidst citizens.

The job loss according to the US Labor Department destroyed nearly all the positions created in the prior decade

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 455.43 points, or 1.91%, to 24,331.32, the SP 500 gained 48.61 points, or 1.69%, to 2,929.8 and the Nasdaq Composite added 141.66 points, or 1.58%, to 9,121.32.

Stocks on Wall Street jumped Friday despite historic job losses suffered by the economy. Fred Katayama reports.

Stocks on Wall Street jumped Friday despite historic job losses suffered by the economy. Fred Katayama reports.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Singapore : Springer, 2020.

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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, c2019.

[S.l.] : SPRINGER NATURE, 2020.

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

One of the highlights of our North Gallery in our 4th-floor Luce Center, which reopened last April, is the magnificent painting Return of the 69th (Irish) Regiment, N.Y.S.M. from the Seat of War, painted by Louis Lang (1812-1893) in 1862. The painting depicts the regiment marching off the ship and into the Battery in Lower Manhattan,...

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This week, the New-York Historical Society turned 214! To celebrate our birthday we’re taking a look back on the construction of the New-York Historical Society’s permanent home at 170 Central Park West. Before settling along the park, New-York Historical lived at seven other locations around the city between 1804 and 1908. Here’s a retro map...

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Most Christian and Jewish Americans, reading about Christ’s resurrection or the Jewish exodus from Egypt during the upcoming Easter and Passover holidays, will not consider the Bible to be an American book. And yet, the Bible was our first American book; its earliest printings, translations, and interpretations reflected the experiences of the first Europeans to...

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Winnipeg : Dawson Richardson Publishing, 1927

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008

Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced an additional $4.5 million in funding to institutions in 18 states to expand selection and digitization of U.S. historic newspapers for the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), including first-time awardee University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.  Seventeen other participating institutions - Alaska Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums; University of California, Riverside; Colorado Historical Society; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; State Historical Society of Iowa; Maine State Library; University of Maryland, College Park; Central Michigan University; Montana Historical Society; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rutgers University, New Brunswick (New Jersey); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Ohio History Connection; South Dakota Department of Education; University of North Texas; and Washington State Library - received additional awards, each charged with selecting and digitizing approx. 100,000 newspaper pages from their state for contribution to the online newspaper collection "Chronicling America," hosted by the Library of Congress. Since 2005, cultural institutions in 46 states and Puerto Rico have contributed more than 13 million digitized American historical newspaper pages, published between 1789 and 1963 and in 14 different languages, to the collection. 

Jointly sponsored by the NEH and LC, NDNP is a long-term effort to provide access to an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. This rich digital resource will be developed and permanently maintained at the Library of Congress. The NEH grant program funds the contribution of content from, eventually, all U.S. states and territories.... Read more about it & follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!!

On October 30, 1938, the radio-listening public was brought to near-hysteria by the evening broadcast narrated by 23-year old Orson Welles of an adaption of the H.G. Wells classic ‘War of the Worlds.” According to newspapers around the country the next day, the dramatization “threw the public into an uproar when listeners believed flocks of nasty little men from Mars had smashed down into the State of New Jersey and were wiping out civilization…” Police stations and newspaper offices were inundated with calls from the public and telephone switchboards overloaded, while others evacuated their homes and apartment buildings, fearing the worst. Read more about it and the aftermath and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Just a few weeks after the the signing of the armistice with Germany on November 11, 1918, ending military action in World War One, Americans prepared to celebrate their traditional Thanksgiving with new appreciation for a "day of thankful prayer... and joyous feasting." Although still restricted by wartime rationing, the Evening World (New York, NY) asked chefs of major New York City hotels to contribute their best recipes to honor the Allied leaders responsible for victory and the war's end....Read more about it and try some Roast Turkey a la Pershing! For more Thanksgiving recipes see our recent Headlines and Heroes blog for "10 Thanksgiving Recipes You May Not Have Tried" and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

from @NEHgov on Twitter: Be part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a partnership between National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress to create a digital resource of newspapers published between 1690 and 1963, from all the states and U.S. territories. Applications due Jan 15: http://1.usa.gov/1ye8EKz 

In honor of National Popcorn Day on Jan. 19, here’s a quick rundown from 1933 of some fun ways to incorporate more grains into your diet! There’s of course the traditional style of popcorn for snacking, “popped while you wait, with a generous pour of melted butter and a big shake of salt” according to the Midland Journal (Rising Sun, MD). But why not enjoy some popcorn “merrily floating on the surface of creamy soups,” or combine popcorn, cheese, and mayonnaise for cheeseballs in a fruit salad! Read more about it, check out some recipes and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Celebrate International Women's Day today with us and explore how change-making women in American history appeared in the contemporary news using the Chronicling America historic newspaper collection. Our most recent post in Headlines and Heroes highlights fifteen amazing American women, including Clara Barton, Ida B. Wells, Marie Curie, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and, of course, investigative journalist Nellie Bly. Use the linked Recommended Topic guides to learn more about them and make your own discoveries. Read more about them and follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day! Have you made America’s favorite cookie recently? How about trying out this 1940 recipe from the Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)? Chop your own chocolate and read more about it! Follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!

Across the world on June 7, 1944, newspapers rushed to press with the first word on the Western Allied invasion of the beaches of Normandy in France. For days before, front pages in the homefront news were filled with word of Allied battles on all fronts with hints of an imminent invasion of the French coast. Finally on June 7, news arrived… “ALLIES SMASHING INLAND” declared the Wilmington Morning Star (Wilmington, DE). Follow the headlines from issue to issue and read more about it! (And then follow us on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!)

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