David’s responsibilities include marketing strategy as well as advertising, promotion and publicity activities. In addition, he is the editor of the Readex Report, a quarterly e-newsletter featuring original articles by librarians and researchers on diverse aspects of digital historical collections and related topics.
[Editor’s note: This week the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in History was awarded to T. J. Stiles for “ Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America.” One of America’s most accomplished independent...
Readex recently sat down with Manisha Sinha, Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sinha discussed her extensive new history of abolition and the importance...
Notable Forecasts Tacoma Daily News 03.30.1895.jpg In 1895 editors at thirteen major American newspapers were asked to use their “prophetic powers” to forecast the news publishing world a century...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex Announces The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 Thousands of valuable printed works about one of the key topics in U.S. history, all digitized...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex to Launch The American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922 More than 13,000 printed works about the nation’s deadliest conflict, all digitized in full...
Reflecting the diversity of Latin American and Caribbean studies today, here are four research collections spanning three centuries of regional history, issues and events. Caribbean Newspapers, Series...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex to Launch Digital Edition of Caribbean Newspapers New collection is essential for research on Colonial history, the slave trade and the Atlantic...
Look for this new Readex advertisement in the fall 2013 issue of Documents to the People, the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association...
The latest Hollywood version of The Great Gatsby has sparked book sales of more than a million copies in the first half of 2013 alone. That's more than twice the number typically sold in a full year...
Before Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel appeared in book form in March 1852, it was published as a serial in The National Era, an abolitionist newspaper printed weekly in the nation’s...
In the April 15 issue of Library Journal, Gail Golderman and Bruce Connolly review nine collections of primary-source materials related to the American Civil War. Among these resources is The Civil...
Among the individually available titles in American Newspaper Archives is the California Courier—an English-language Armenian weekly newspaper published in California since 1958. In addition to...
A partnership between Readex and the New-York Historical Society, one of America's pre-eminent cultural institutions, has led to this announcement about the creation of a new online resource: American...
The full-page advertisement below will appear on the inside back cover of the spring 2013 issue of the official publication of the American Library Association’s Government Document Round Table...
Nearly a quarter century ago, Glenda J. Pearson, University of Washington, wrote: “The definition between government document and nongovernment document blurs, particularly as the intelligence...
Erin Cassidy We recently received a short note from Erin Cassidy, Assistant Professor, Web Services Librarian, and History and Foreign Languages Bibliographer in the Newton Gresham Library of Sam...
From the Readex digital edition Following the recent news that Readex is now offering institutions access to the complete historical run of the Washington Evening Star, here are comments from two...
Newspaper Archives for Academic Research and Training: A Series of Three Regionally Focused Webinars American newspapers—with their eyewitness reporting, editorials, advertisements, obituaries and...
The digital edition of one of the world's preeminent collections for African American studies is now available for institutional trial. Created from the Library Company of Philadephia’s acclaimed Afro...
We recently received a short note from Christopher C. Brown, Professor, Reference Technology Integration Librarian and Government Documents Librarian, at the University of Denver’s Penrose Library...
Now complete, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 has been reviewed in three major library publications: Library Journal, Reference Reviews and Choice. Here is an excerpt from each: From Library...
Our Guest Blogger: Barbara Shaffer, unofficial historian of Springfield, Massachusetts From the online archive of the Springfield Republican and Union Memories take many forms: stories of an older...
Old Evening Star Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. -- Source: Carol M. Highsmith Archive (Library of Congress) This spring Readex will begin releasing a complete 70-year span of The...
From Early American Newspapers, Series 9 This spring Readex will begin releasing two new series in its acclaimed Early American Newspapers collection. Early American Newspapers, Series 8 and Series 9...
