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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...

Buried among the verbiage of a lengthy speech by Nikita Khrushchev from 1960 is a Communist Party plan that I’d never heard before – that the Soviet Union would abolish taxes on workers and employees...

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...

Dr. Eran Shalev, Department of History, Haifa University and author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic writes: "I cannot tell you how...

“The Police, in Revolt; the Jails, Open; the Nation, in Riot; the Families, in Dismay” – Thus runs the headline of Mexico’s El Diario on November 25th, 1911, as the Mexican Revolution raged in the...

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...

The September 2010 issue of the Journal of American History—the quarterly journal of the Organization of American Historians—features this review of America's Historical Newspapers. It has long been...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the initial uprising that would lead to the independence of Mexico from Spain. 2010 is also the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution of 1910, which...

"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...

Proposing the 19th Amendment In her recent NewYork Times column titled " My Favorite August," Gail Collins wrote about women getting the right to vote in August 1920. The previous year—on May 19, 1919...

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...

The Dunlap Broadside from Early American Imprints According to the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, there are 26 known copies of the "Declaration of Independence," which is often...

The Doty at the Soo Locks 1896 - Andrew Young photo courtesy of the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes On June 24, the Associated Press (AP) distributed an article about the recent discovery of...

From Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1980 Many of us have read about Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work with electricity, but few know that this Renaissance man is also responsible for...

[ The Pope’s Stone, Part One discussed the theft and destruction of a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX in 1853 to be placed in the Washington Monument, under construction on the National Mall in...

From the Springfield Union, July 1, 1950, page 18 England will meet the United States in the first game either team plays in the 2010 World Cup. The tournament begins this Friday, June 11, with the...

The April 2010 issue of The Charleston Advisor includes a two-page review of America's Historical Newspapers by Providence College librarian Janice Schuster. Focusing on Early American Newspapers...

From the Serial Set: History of the Washington National Monument and Washington National Monument Society. Compiled by Frederick L. Harvey, Secretary Washington National Monument Society. February 6...

Increasingly, a writer attempting to produce the definitive biography of a 19th or 20th-century American will find that essential tools include searchable databases of government documents and...