Our guest blogger today is Bruce D. Roberts, author of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards (2007) and Mechanical Bank Trade Cards (2008). His new article on "The Development of the American Advertising Card"...
Maximum Prepublication Discount Ends Soon The first release of Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 is live, and this unique new resource is now available for institutional...
Post by T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf) [Note: On April 7, 2011, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , as part of its 87th annual...
Our guest blogger today is Julie Ann McDaniel, Librarian, Swedenborg Memorial Library, Urbana University Source: The Historical Marker DataBase Mechanicsburg, Ohio is a really small place today—less...
Libyans Raise the Rebel Flag Khalifa Bilqasim Haftar and Omar al-Hariri, two of the leaders of the reportedly somewhat disorganized military opposition to Col. Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, are not only...
Photo credit: Courtsey of Kheel Center The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was a business that made shirtwaists, the common term of the day for women's blouses. The business, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac...
From the Missouri Republican, Apr. 1, 1888. Click to open. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months old, an illness left her both deaf and blind. A...
[This article by Donna L. Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication at Lesley University, first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The Readex Report.] I have been a media historian for several...
A wide selection of diverse titles reveals local, regional and national history Dozens of significant titles from more than 40 states are available individually as a part of America’s Historical...
Readex to Launch Digital Edition of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995 Hard-to-find reports support research into 20th-century science and history, including international...
Our guest blogger today is Reinette F. Jones, Librarian, Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky “Some days I wonder why it took so long for there to be a an online, full image...
February 27, 1923. Miss Alice Reighly, Anti-Flirt Club president, Washington, D.C. New York Congressman Chris Lee recently was caught not exactly with his pants down but certainly with his shirt off...
[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...
One hundred years ago this month, Ronald Reagan was born in the Illinois village of Tampico. Other prominent Americans born in 1911 include Lucille Ball, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Bishop, Hank...
Hassan al-Banna Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood these days is more often mentioned in the news than ever before as the current political crisis in Egypt continues...
Farmers' Register (14 May 1805) An early mention of Valentine’s Day in an American newspaper comes from the Farmers' Register (Lansingburgh, NY). This article, reprinted from an unnamed British paper...
Nat Turner preaches religion. Image Credit: The Granger Collection, New York Whites throughout the American South were traumatized in the summer of 1831 by a bloody slave revolt led by Nat Turner, a...
In his highly regarded 2006 Yale Book of Quotations, Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro gives on page 649 the following source for the phrase “lunatic fringe”: The lunatic fringe was fully in evidence...
[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...
Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art) No Christmas celebration would be complete without Santa Claus, carols and...
[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...
