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‘Sneaking Stewart, Fool Myer, and Drunken Hartly’: Highlights from Early…
The image is a detail from "A Garland for May Day 1895" by British artist Walter Crane. This allegorical illustration features a figure evocative of pre-industrial England, holding a garland inscribed with Socialist ideals.
Casting Light on the Bomb-Throwers: Revisiting Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot…
‘The voice of female sorrow’: Highlights from Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-…
Scandal, Brothels and Blackmail: Announcing the Release of “American Underworld…
From the Velvet Underground to the Velvet Revolution: Charter 77’s Redemption…
Lucretia, Tommy Playlove and the Good Boy: Rare Early American Juvenile…
Union POWs in Confederate Prisons: Highlights from The American Civil War…
Duck and (Dis)cover: Strategic Information Hiding in Plain Sight in Joint…
Scanned page of printed dialogue titled “Don’t Get Weary—Continued,” featuring a conversation between characters Sally and Johnny in dialect. At the bottom is a section titled “Don’t Get Weary; or, ‘Johnny You’ve Been a Bad Boy,’” with musical notation and lyrics, and a copyright notice dated 1877.
Why de dickens?: The Lampooning of African Americans as an American Form of…
Strong Language on Communism: American Journalist Anna Louise Strong Takes the…
From War to Wilderness: Alaska’s Near Islands
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A Video Preview of the Digital Edition of the Territorial Papers of the United…
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‘A Complication of Evils’: Highlights from Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922
The Savage Struggle for Life Aboard the RMS Atlantic: Tracking a Pre-Titanic…
An American Bohemian, Incriminating an Injustice, and Hopeful of a History:…
A Unique Primary Source News Archive Covering Contemporary World History
Out of Africa: Ota Benga’s Journey from the Congo to a Cage at the Bronx Zoo
Woodcut illustration from “Rapp’s Comic Almanac, 1844” showing a chaotic crowd scene outside a building. A man in the foreground runs while people behind him push forward and wave their arms, suggesting a riot or frantic chase.
Illustrated Comic or Satirical Publications in Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-…
“Dip not thy meat in the sauce”: Highlights from the American Antiquarian…
Now available for trial! Nineteenth-Century American Drama: Popular Culture and…
‘The Hard Pillow of the Dying Hero’: Highlights from The American Civil War…
Distilling the Essence of Communism: Retrospective Highlights from Readex’s…
‘The Village of Innocence’: Rare Early 19th-Century Children’s Books from the…
Leading Andrew Jackson Authority Explores Shifting Views About a Controversial…

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