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Kim Philby on USSR commemorative stamp In “ Just Browsing: Cool Items from the Past,” I shared several unexpected items I recently stumbled upon in America’s Historical Newspapers. I don’t however...

Post by T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf) [Note: On April 7, 2011, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , as part of its 87th annual...

Hassan al-Banna Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood these days is more often mentioned in the news than ever before as the current political crisis in Egypt continues...

FBIS Daily Report Annexes, 1974-1996 is an essential complement to FBIS Daily Reports—the fully searchable broadcast and news resource featuring first-hand reporting from around the globe. This new...

The latest release of MARC Records for the Serial Set cover the 99th and 100th Congresses, 1985–1988. These 4,119 new records have been posted to our Readex MARC Records portal. MARC records currently...

Readex offers MARC records for the documents and reports of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 based on the high level of indexing found in the full citations of the Readex digital edition...

The Titanic (AP) Nearly a century after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, scientists are planning to revisit the site of the wreckage in mid-August with today’s most powerful imaging technology...

Congratulations to Esther Crawford, Rice University, and Michelle McKnelly, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, winners of the 2010 GODORT Silent Auction for the W. David Rozkuszka Scholarship...

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...

A Readex breakfast event during the 2010 American Library Association annual conference included a presentation by Steve Daniel, an internationally known authority on government documents. In "Dredges...

[ 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...

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...