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Business 2.0
The story of Business 2.0 (business2.news) — the magazine of the New Economy: the dot-com boom and bust, e-commerce, and Silicon Valley — from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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The Living Archive: historical American newspapers, restored and readable
The Living Archive Series is Robert Shumake's ongoing restoration of historical newspapers and magazines — city dailies, Black press titles and vanished magazines — rebuilt from surviving public-domain runs into volumes researchers, genealogists and local historians can actually read.
How a newspaper is restored
Sourcing
Each title is traced back to surviving runs held in public-domain newspaper repositories, state library microfilm and digitised civic collections.
Restoration
Scanned pages are cleaned, re-set into readable type and checked line by line against the original columns, so period spelling and datelines survive intact.
Publication
The restored run is published as a single annotated volume with historical context on the paper, its city and the readership it served.
Newspapers and magazines in the archive
Every title currently restored, A–Z. Each links to its volume page with retailer links. The rest of the catalog — including the wisdom-tradition titles published as Ajarn Shaman Shu — sits in the full library, and the writing journal covers the research behind the restorations.
- Business 2.0
- Southern Voice
- St. Paul Dispatch News
- The Alabama Journal
- The Albuquerque Tribune
- The Alexandria Gazette
- The Altoona Tribune
- The Arkansas Gazette
- The Atlanta Georgian
- The Atlanta News
- The Austin Citizen
- The Austin Sun
- The Birmingham Post-Herald
- The Bridgeport Post
- The Butte Miner
- The Carolina Times
- The Central Florida Future
- The Charleston Evening Post
- The Charleston Post
- The Chicago American
- The Chicago Journal
- The Colorado Springs Sun
- The Columbia Record
- The Dallas Dispatch
- The Dallas Express
- The Dallas Herald
- The Dallas Times Herald
- THE EVANSVILLE PRESS
- The Evening Independant
- The Green Bay Chronicle
- The Green Bay Chronicles
- The Green Bay News
- The Honolulu Star
- The Houston Post
- The Indianapolis News
- The Jackson Daily News
- THE JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL
- THE KANSAS CITY KANSAN
- The Kentucky Post
- The Los Angeles News
- The Louisville Times
- The Maine Times
- The Memphis Press-Scimitar
- The Meridian Star
- The Miami News
- The Miami Sunpost
- The Milwaukee Sentinel
- The New Orleans States
- The New York Globe
- The New York News
- The Newark Evening News
- The Oakland Tribune
- The Omaha Bee
- THE OWYHEE AVALANCHE
- The Portland Telegram
- The Sacramento Tribune
- The Sacramento Union
- The San Diego Tribune
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian
- The San Francisco News
- The Sarasota Journal
- The Scranton Tribune
- The Seattle Star
- The Seattle Union Record
- The Shreveport Journal
- The Tampa Tribune
Recent restorations
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Southern Voice
The story of Southern Voice (southernvoice.news) — Atlanta's LGBTQ newspaper, the fight for equality, and a community's chronicle — from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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St. Paul Dispatch News
The story of the St. Paul Dispatch (stpauldispatch.news) — Minnesota's capital, the Mississippi headwaters, the railroads, and the North Star State — from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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The Alabama Journal
The story of the Alabama Journal and Montgomery — the Cradle of the Confederacy and birthplace of the civil rights movement — from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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The Albuquerque Tribune
The story of the Albuquerque Tribune and the Duke City, albuquerquetribune.news — Route 66, the atomic age, and a crossroads of cultures — from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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The Alexandria Gazette
The story of the Alexandria Gazette, alexandriagazette.news — one of America's oldest daily newspapers — and the historic port city beside the nation's capital, from Robert Shumake's Living Archive Series.
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