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Ghosted: The Eddy Family’s Questionable Claims to Occult Powers in Nineteenth…

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“Evil Most Disastrous”: The Agony and Ecstasy of Absinthe

Chart of excess mortality in U.S. cities during the influenza epidemic. Percentage of population dying of influenza in 1918-1919, arranged by city.

Spanish Influenza of 1918, Part 3: The Waves Continue, Jan. to Dec. 1919

New 1-Minute Video about ‘Origins of Modern Science and Technology’

‘Guaranteed to blow a body-snatcher over the highest church steeple’: Coffin…

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Fugitive science, antislavery politics, and women in the flash press: Readex…

Myrtle White of Washington, D.C., was one of the approx. 675,000 Americans to die during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

Spanish Influenza of 1918, Part 2: The Rapid Spread of the Epidemic in the…

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‘Women Who Wheel’: How the Bicycle Craze of the 1890s Helped to Expand Women’s…

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Spanish Influenza of 1918, Part 1: The First Six Weeks of Epidemic in the…

Hetty Green, “Financial Amazon” of the Gilded Age

Turning Students into History Detectives: A Conversation with Professor Amy…

Photo shows suffrage hikers who took part in the suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C. which joined the March 3, 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association parade. (Source: Flickr Commons Project, 2009). Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

“Through the tears, confident and determined”: American Women Get the Vote One…

A Name to Conjure With: Mardi Gras Indians Keep the Faith through the Spirit of…

“The highlight of my ALA conference”: Librarians laud Readex-sponsored program…

The Great Blondin: ‘Crossing of Niagara on a Rope!’

Ties that Bind: The Role of American Railroads in Expanding and Connecting Vast…

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Charleston Advisor Reviews “American Underworld: The Flash Press”

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Inherit a Problem: How Lysenkoism Ruined Soviet Plant Genetics and Perpetuated…

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Fish or Cut Bait: Following a Phrase in Early American Newspapers

Women in War: From the American Indian Wars to the American Civil War

“An Alluring Magnet”: The Cold War, Martian Exploration, and the Pull of the…

‘Freedom Found: Untold Stories of the Civil War’s Refugees from Slavery’ –…

“Expanding human control over nature:” How the CIA created a record for…

New 1-Minute Video about ‘Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764-1953’