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In this issue: The exonerated executioner of a Native American sorceress; profiling a polymathic chess master; using a local newspaper archive to uncover an American city's past; and unremembered inhumanity that sparked a world war.

Murder! Or the Remarkable Trial of Tommy Jemmy, 19th-Century Seneca Witch-Hunter and Defender of Indian Sovereignty
By Matthew Dennis, Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
> Full Story

The Untold Talent of Joseph Redding: Profiling a Polymathic Chess Expert
By Jerry Spinrad, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University
> Full Story

The Nanjing Atrocities Reported in the U.S. Newspapers, 1937-38
By Suping Lu, Professor and Library Liaison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> Full Story

 

Loving the “City of Homes”… and its Historical Newspaper Archives
By Barbara Shaffer, Unofficial Historian of Springfield, Massachusetts
> Full Story

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From the Readex Blog:

Teaching Early American Literature at Lenoir-Rhyne University
> Full Story

Franklin Scholar Uses America's Historical Newspapers to Trace an Ingenious Hoax
> Full Story

Budding Novelist Uses Online Newspaper Archive to Recreate the Civil War-era French Quarter
> Full Story

Birth of a Star--Washington, D.C.'s Evening Star
> Full Story

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"A dream come true"
- Richard Newman,
Professor of History,
Rochester Institute
of Technology

> go to Afro-Americana, 1535-1922

A wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials

> go to Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994

"Little-known
treasures of the
Black press"
- Kathleen E. Bethel, African American Studies Librarian, Northwestern University

> go to African American Periodicals, 1825-1995

"Wondrous"
- Robert L. Paquette,
Publius Virgilius Rogers
Professor of American
History, Hamilton College

> go to America's
Historical Newspapers

"Opens a
marvelous window"
- James M. Bergquist, Emeritus Professor of History, Villanova University

> go to Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971