This year marks the 200th anniversary of the initial uprising that would lead to the independence of Mexico from Spain. 2010 is also the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution of 1910, which...
Proposing the 19th Amendment In her recent NewYork Times column titled " My Favorite August," Gail Collins wrote about women getting the right to vote in August 1920. The previous year—on May 19, 1919...
From America's Historical Newspapers When one thinks of Prince Otto von Bismarck, 19th-century Germany’s Iron Chancellor, birthday cakes and greetings do not first come to mind. But they did — at...
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...
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...
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...
Increasingly, a writer attempting to produce the definitive biography of a 19th or 20th-century American will find that essential tools include searchable databases of government documents and...
Students and scholars of Peace Studies and related fields will be interested to learn that Mahatma Gandhi’s Indian Opinion is one of the titles in the World Newspaper Archive: African Newspapers, 1800...
