only 1774 and 1804?
Hello! I am a economics doctoral student at Georgia Tech. My advisor told me about this dataset earlier this month and I have been struggling to get the full experience!
I'd like to search newspapers from 1915-1940 about Margaret Sanger and contraception. She was a prolific writer and noted eugenicist, and her early movement for reproductive choice got a lot of support and printed text in Black newspapers of the time. My hope is to see if the media surrounding the early birth control movement had any impact on Black women's fertility rates.
I was hoping to use the American Stories data to get a sense as to how salient the idea of contraception was in Black communities of this era. There are several locations I'd like to hone in on.
But when I use the Dataset Viewer, I cannot select individual years. I can only use the 'subset' options ("subset_years" and "subset_years_content_region"). And even these dropdown options are limited to only two years: 1774 and 1804. I can search for keywords for the rows shown for these two years, but none others.
Is this a problem that is currently being investigated? Perhaps it's something new. Either way, I'd love to be able to get my hands dirty with this data! Thanks!
Suneye H.
Georgia Tech