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All the News That’s Fit to Print: The Day The New York Times First Hit the Streets

On September 18, 1851, the streets of New York City awoke to a new voice. Amid the clatter of horse-drawn carriages, the cries of newsboys hawking papers, and the hum of a city that was rapidly becoming the beating heart of America, a four-page newspaper rolled off a printing press for the very first time. …

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