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Scottish poet Thomas Campbell wrote, "To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die." While each life is unique, some experiences and emotions—such as fear, excitement, love, and loss—are universal...

Legendary investigative journalist Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran) died more than 100 years ago. Bly's legacy shaped both the lives of women and the field of journalism. After her death...

In September and October 2024, two historic hurricanes slammed into Florida's Gulf coast and wreaked havoc into the Appalachia region, impacting 6 states, and resulting in over 230 casualties. It is...

Although ATLAS, dubbed the "Halloween Comet," disintegrated before having the opportunity to spook anyone, the return of Halley's Comet in the late spring of 1910 certainly caused a sensational fright...

The so-called eugenic marriage of today is a happy combination of the ideality of a stockyard with the practicality of a hummingbird. - Dr. Edward Earle Purinton Eugenics: "the practice or advocacy of...

Suppose you were embarking upon the purchase of a car. A new one is out of the question; you don’t have that kind of money. You’ve been saving for this for a long time. You’ve chosen a nice used Lada...

In many of its primary source collections, Readex provides a significant enhancement for the user by including Suggested Searches to jumpstart research. Created and curated by the Readex editorial and...

...the ability of monitoring to map history through the media: in different contexts – e.g. diplomatic, conflict and war, everyday activities, entertainment and arts – as well as at different...

Earlier this year, Readex announced the launch of the newly-digitized BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts collection. Below is a look into intercepted communications during the last week of...

One of the most important historical archives of the 20th century, BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts is now available for the first time as a digital primary source collection. Readex has...

Readex is excited to announce the release of BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts, 1939-2001. Created in partnership with the BBC and digitized from the complete physical materials archive preserved at the BBC Written Archives Centre in Reading, England, this exceptional resource captures more than 60 years of turbulent 20th century global history, as it unfolded.

A recent journey into the Readex archives reveals just how much clothing and fashion informed social, political, religious, and health opinions and commentaries in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education and declared state laws establishing “separate but equal” public schooling to be unconstitutional...

Nineteenth century European Romantic writers viewed tuberculosis as a fashionable disease. The slow but inexorable progression of the “white plague” (or consumption) and the austerity of the pale...

August 18, 1920, was a momentous day for the women of America. When Tennessee ratified the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the act granting equal suffrage for women, which had been passed by...

Part of the power of Readex’s new Morality and Science : Global Origins of Modern Bioethics is the access it affords to primary material that is otherwise difficult to obtain in English-language...

More than a thousand years ago, Egyptians noticed a shining red object that seemed to wander through the night sky. Fascinated, they painted the celestial body onto star charts and the ceiling of...

In 2018, a Chinese scientist named He Jiankui secretly altered the DNA of a pair of human embryos to make them resistant to the HIV virus. When the twin babies were born and Dr. He announced what he’d...

Earlier this year, the United States Department of Defense and U.S. Intelligence Community issued reports warning that human-caused climate change is already exacerbating national security threats and...

Readex has released a new family of digital resources that support learning and research across STEM and humanities disciplines. Each of these five fully searchable collections is comprised of...

The June release of Territorial Papers of the United States, 1765-1953, includes several legislative reports on bills relating to policies toward indigenous peoples of North America. Also found in...

Readex is pleased to announce a diverse array of new digital collections for teaching and research across the humanities and increasingly studied STEM fields. To learn more, visit Readex at booth 2525...

This unique family of digital resources includes ten individually available modules, each providing global perspectives on a critical topic in 20th-century world history. Collected across the globe between 1941 and 1996, the translated primary source documents in these databases offer fresh opportunities for deeper understanding of today’s headlines.

Lunchtime. Wall Street, September 16, 1920. Secretaries and clerks crowded the streets of the financial district as a man parked a horse-drawn wagon opposite the headquarters of the J.P. Morgan bank...