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...
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"...
[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...
The 1988 return to flight launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery (Source: NASA Images) The highly anticipated launch of space shuttle Discovery later this month will mark the beginning of an end. The...
JW-Constitution-launch-Article-1-300x102_0.jpg From America's Historical Newspapers Contrary to this newspaper report that the event would take place in November 1797, the frigate USS Constitution was...
"Spirit of the Frontier" by John Gast (1872) Since the late 1800s, historians have debated the importance of the frontier on the development of American institutions and culture. For some, the Western...
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...
From The Daily Picayune; 04-15-1865; New Orleans One hundred and forty-five years ago this month, two of the most critical events in American history occurred within five days of one another. On April...
