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By Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware, and Director of the Program in African American History, Library Company of Philadelphia In 2013, people across the...

Newspaper Archives for Academic Research and Training: A Series of Three Regionally Focused Webinars American newspapers—with their eyewitness reporting, editorials, advertisements, obituaries and...

The digital edition of one of the world's preeminent collections for African American studies is now available for institutional trial. Created from the Library Company of Philadephia’s acclaimed Afro...

Kathryn Stockett’s bestselling book and film, The Help, brought to life a familiar caricature of African American women, the American “mammy.” Depicted as good humored, overweight, middle-aged...

“It was downright indecent. I saw women go out after the creatures had begun what they call their dance. I did not stay it through. I just couldn’t.” (1) (A woman’s indignant account of her visit to...

The Evening Star Newspaper Buildings. Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division On December 16, 1852, a newspaper described by historian Fred A. Emery as “The Rock of Gibraltar in...

Nothing says “home” quite like a map of Alaska and adjacent lands shown as Russian and British territory—with annotations in French! “Map showing Russian territory of Alaska and coastline of western...

Old Evening Star Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. -- Source: Carol M. Highsmith Archive (Library of Congress) This spring Readex will begin releasing a complete 70-year span of The...

From Early American Newspapers, Series 9 This spring Readex will begin releasing two new series in its acclaimed Early American Newspapers collection. Early American Newspapers, Series 8 and Series 9...

Joshua C. Kendall The Connecticut Webster on Slavery By Joshua Kendall, author of The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture The pure-bred New...

Downton Abbey, a PBS drama about the English aristocracy and their servants during the Edwardian era, has become a cult hit in the United States. A great deal of its appeal is nostalgia for an elegant...

Guest blogger: Ja-ne de Abreu, an award-winning writer in the media production industry currently embarking on her first novel The Louisiana Historical Newspaper Archivehas proven to be an invaluable...

Chocolate: A Readex Sampler By Louis E. Grivetti, Professor of Nutrition, Emeritus, University of California, Davis International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) 2010 Award Finalist in...

Michael Morpurgo’s fictional story “War Horse” has gone from a beloved children's book to successful stage production to bestselling Hollywood movie directed by Steven Spielberg. But who were the real...

Artist's sketch of D. B. Cooper (Photo: Seattle FBI) The first aircraft hijackings were political. Leave it to American ingenuity to monetize the action! D.B. Cooper, not his real name, did it in 1971...

When reading accounts of the tragic conflict between whites and Native Americans, such as Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, one cannot help but wonder why the Indians did not see the whites...

Bobby Jones entered the Roaring Twenties still the teenage prodigy who had first come to the public's attention when he qualified for the U.S. Amateur Championship at the age of 14. By the end of the...

As a Readex account executive, I enjoy the opportunity to help bring our digital collections to the attention of students and scholars at some of the smallest four-year colleges. Occasionally, this...

Henry Whitney Bellows (1814-1882), planner and president of the United States Sanitary Commission, the leading soldiers' aid society, during the American Civil War. On April 12, 1861, Confederate...

[The article below by University of Georgia professor Stephen Mihm first appeared in The Readex Report (Sept. 2008). Last month, an op-ed by Mihm headlined " The Biographer's New Best Friend" was...

Title: Native dance by Spanish-American. Fiesta, Taos, New Mexico. Photographer: Russell Lee (1903-1986). Source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection...

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 The essential new complement to African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 features more than 170 wide-ranging periodicals...

Source: http://www.davidrumsey.com The city of Mobile, Alabama, was a major center of trade on the Gulf Coast during the Civil War. Although the Union blockading fleet patrolled Mobile, blockade...

Some things never change, or so suggested the Duluth News Tribune in 1916: The origins of America’s national pastime are murky to say the least. How- ever, the contest now recognized as the first...