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One of the joys of browsing American historical newspapers is discovering the unexpected from around the world. Take this photograph, for example, of a car being dragged across a Siberian river during...

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...

*/ /*-->*/ Tulsa’s black community was prosperous in the first decades of 20th century. There were restaurants and theaters, and a shopping district offered fine goods. The African American press of...

[This article by Elizabeth Hopwood, a graduate student in the English Department at Northeastern University, first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The Readex Report.] Anyone who’s planned a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

[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...

[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...

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...

Our guest blogger today is SJ Wolfe, Senior Cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society and Independent Mummyologist SJ Wolfe and 19th-century mummy Padihershef When I began my project ten years...

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...