In this issue: Seamy urban newspapers seduce and scandalize readers in 19th-century America, weighty themes abound in yesteryear’s children’s books, and did an 1849 execution inspire an enigmatic...
Earlier this year [2018] Readex published the Territorial Papers of the United States, 1764-1953, the most important early American content not yet digitized—until now. More than half of America’s...
In 2003, Readex began a special partnership with Dartmouth College Library. Readex wished to scan a number of specific maps and color illustrations for our definitive digital edition of the 14,000...
From its first session, Congress concerned itself with the publication of its own proceedings. By 1815, a definite set of publication types along with a schema for numbering volumes and publications...
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...
Our Guest Blogger is David A. Rawson, Ph.D., Historian & Professor, Worcester, Massachusetts How does a researcher handle dated reference works still in print and still widely used? Lynchburg-Press...
Nothing says “home” quite like a map of Alaska and adjacent lands shown as Russian and British territory—with annotations in French! “Map showing Russian territory of Alaska and coastline of western...
[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...
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...
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...
The Dunlap Broadside from Early American Imprints According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, there are 26 known copies of the "Declaration of Independence," which is often...
[ The Pope’s Stone, Part One discussed the theft and destruction of a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX in 1853 to be placed in the Washington Monument, under construction on the National Mall in...
From the Springfield Union, July 1, 1950, page 18 England will meet the United States in the first game either team plays in the 2010 World Cup. The tournament begins this Friday, June 11, with the...
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...
