Herald of the Times (Newport, R.I.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
812 issues from 1830 to 1846, published in Newport, Rhode Island, digitised for Chronicling America.
Published in the southern port city of Newport, Herald of the Times ran a quote from Daniel Webster in its masthead: “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” It was a patriotic paper with a Republican publisher, but stated in its first issue: “It will be his object, therefore, in the political department of his paper, to maintain unshaken his Rhode-Island principles, and to extend and perpetuate that love of independence and political truth, which has given to the smallest member of the Union, an enviable character for firmness and integrity…”
It was issued weekly by James Atkinson, publisher and proprietor at the office at 153 Thames Street at the “corner of Thames Street and Sherman’s wharf, a few doors south of the Brick Market. Entrance first door down the wharf,” as stated on the masthead. Atkinson listed agents for the newspaper in a wide local range: Providence, Bristol, Warren, Tiverton, Fall River, Massachusetts, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.
The Herald of the Times ran foreign and national news as lead stories, and as the newspaper became more established, more advertisements were featured. It was originally issued on Wednesdays or, more regularly, Thursday mornings. A Marine List of ships entering or clearing the port and specific arrivals was listed, as well as local information, such as marriages, deaths, and probate notices. An innovative “Bank Note Table” listed the value of New York and regional bank notes. Notably, the newspaper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Newport, Rhode Island, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress