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Source: Morning Oregonian, Feb. 5, 1910 Low-fat? Low-calorie? Low-carb? Headlines seem to grab the public’s interest every day with warnings about what and what not to eat. With food-related health...

Guest blogger: Reinette F. Jones, Librarian, Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Source: University of Kentucky The Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA) was...

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"...

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...

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 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...

Map Credit: Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida. Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the...

Jane Cunningham Croly (Source: The Bohemian Brigade Website) If Jane Cunningham Croly, the influential 19th-century journalist, were to speak at a public event today, possibly at a place similar to...

Paper: The State; Date: Dec. 5, 1905; Issue 5302; Page 1; Columbia, South Carolina In a recent article entitled “Who Said It First?” on the Web site Slate, Jack Shafer investigates who first coined...

Horatio Julius Homer (from the East Boston Times-Free Press) Last month the City of Boston and Boston Police Department (BPD) corrected history and recognized the service of Horatio Julius Homer —...

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...

One hundred years ago last week, Great Britain created the Union of South Africa, transforming the British colony into a semi-autonomous new state with its own Parliament and its first Prime Minister...