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Running Amuck: Following a Phrase in Early American Newspapers

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Make the Most of Your Readex Collections: Interface Training for Fall 2016

New and Improved: Personal and Political Reform in Socialist States

"Equal power and privileges": Victoria Woodhull, First Woman…

The Sylvan Retreats of Early American Gentry: A Newly Available Work in the…

History Professor Mark Summers Speaks about Gilded-Age Politics at Readex-…

“Glory to God! See the Vermonters go it!”: Highlights from The American Civil…

A Day at the (Space) Races: Gherman Titov and Vostok-2 Raise the Stakes of…

“What appears to be wise and right”: Highlights from Afro-Americana Imprints,…

“A Taste for Human Flesh”: The Jersey Shore Shark Attacks of 1916

The Worst Day for Casualties in British Military History: A Look Back at the…

“The Yankee proper hate all foreigners”: Highlights from The American Civil War…

The U.S. Presidential Election of 1980: International Perspectives from Open-…

“The Savage Mob”: Highlights from Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922

“That Execrable Sum of All Villainies”: Highlights from African History and…

The flaming sword, or A sign from heaven: being a remarkable phenomenon, seen in the state of Vermont (1812). This publication also concerns events that occurred in the Green Mountain State which was the first to join the union after the Revolutionary War.

“My knees then smote one against the other”: Highlights from Supplement to…

“Achievements that should not be omitted”: Highlights from The American Civil…

The Body Politic: Public Health and Quality of Life in the Eastern Bloc

Title page and opening text of an “Anti-Slavery Tracts, No. 9” pamphlet titled “Influence of Slavery Upon the White Population,” by a former resident of slave states. The page includes several paragraphs discussing the effects of slavery on society and character, with a handwritten note near the top margin.

“A common railer and brawler”: Highlights from The American Slavery Collection

“Bewitching matter”: Highlights from African History and Culture, 1540-1921

“The stylus of history shall make a truthful record”: Highlights from the…

“A Very Surprising Narrative of a Young Woman, Who Was Discovered in a Rocky…

“Rational pastime for the vacant hour”: Highlights from the American…

The Broad Sweep of Imperialism: As Seen in Open-Source Intelligence Reports…