Right before that election day, on October 31, 1926, Ehrich Weisz (or Weiss - it was changed), better known as Harry Houdini, died. But my most surprising find happened was when trying to track down the story of Wisconsin’s adoption of the recall in 1926. In 1981, there’s the first mention of AIDS. In 1911, I saw the first big cover story on Sun Yat-Sen’s takeover in China.
Hillenbrand hits on one of the surprising joys of what can be dreary research work - seeing historical events that crop up in real time in old newspapers and finding out surprising details that were left out of later history.įrom my own research projects on recall elections, I’ve gotten to check out 1903 papers and run into coverage of the first World Series game. This allows her to see some of the other stories that were occurring at the same time. In a recent New York Times Magazine profile, Laura Hillenbrand, the best-selling author of “Seabiscuit” and “Unbroken,” revealed that she actually buys old newspapers to do her research.
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