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.
[This article by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The...
[This article by the late Clifford J. Doerksen—who presented "bad news from the past" in his dark and witty blog, The Hope Chest—appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report. A brilliant...
The January issue of CHOICE contains this review of African American Newspapers, 1827-1998. African American Newspapers, 1827-1998. Readex. ISBN For academic libraries, Readex offers a one-time tiered...
This press release was distributed by Readex on January 5. Readex to Launch African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 Fresh opportunities to explore crucial facets of the African American experience...
Readex distributed this press release on January 5. Readex to Launch Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 Partnership with the leading ethnic research center in the U.S...
[This post by David Brooks, a recent graduate of Taylor University, first appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report.] Of all the events that occurred during America’s colonial era...
[This post by James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power (HarperCollins, 2010), first appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report.] The most...
In this issue: how digitized newspapers shine a brilliant light on past lives; the profound impact of religion on African-American identity; the Boston Tea Party as perceived by both Colonialists and...
Our guest blogger today is SJ Wolfe, Senior Cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society and Independent Mummyologist SJ Wolfe and 19th-century mummy Padihershef When I began my project ten years...
AHRC RESEARCH NETWORK – CALL FOR PAPERS Principal Investigator Dr Martin Conboy, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield This is a call for expressions of interest for the first two...
Dr. Eran Shalev, Department of History, Haifa University and author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic writes: "I cannot tell you how...
FBIS Daily Report Annexes, 1974-1996 is an essential complement to FBIS Daily Reports—the fully searchable broadcast and news resource featuring first-hand reporting from around the globe. This new...
The September 2010 issue of the Journal of American History—the quarterly journal of the Organization of American Historians—features this review of America's Historical Newspapers. It has long been...
Panel Chair: Duncan Faherty, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center As Cathy Davidson registers in Revolution and the Word, "at least one hundred novels were produced in America between 1789 and...
Panel Chair: Chris Phillips, Lafayette College Scholarly interest in early American religions has greatly expanded in recent years across a variety of disciplines. This panel is intended to generate...
A Readex breakfast event during the 2010 American Library Association annual conference included a presentation by Steve Daniel, an internationally known authority on government documents. In "Dredges...
In the spring 2010 issue of Occasional Miscellany, a newsletter for members and friends of the Library Company of Philadelphia, James Green discusses his organization’s recent completion of an...
The April 2010 issue of The Charleston Advisor includes a two-page review of America's Historical Newspapers by Providence College librarian Janice Schuster. Focusing on Early American Newspapers...
First map of Battle of Gettysburg, showing first day’s fighting. (Phil. Inquirer; July 4, 1863) In Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas (Johns Hopkins, 1993), David C. Bosse presents 45...
To enrich the digital edition of Early American Imprints, Readex is offering Supplements from the Library Company of Philadelphia, a unique resource featuring newly discovered materials. These rare...
In the current issue of The Readex Report...Tom Standage, Economist business affairs editor, describes how nineteenth-century newspapers survived a disruptive technology in Defying Destiny; LeeAnna...
Readex’s first thematic Archive of Americana collection, The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction, was recently ranked among the “Best of the Best” electronic resources reviewed by...
