The July [2017] release of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922 : From the Library Company of Philadelphia includes examinations of slavery and the slave trade by a poet, an abolitionist society, and a...
The January [2017] release of Black Authors, 1556-1922 : Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia includes: ♦ a description of the first major yellow fever epidemic in the United States ♦ a...
The June release of Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia includes a collection of letters by an Englishman about his stay in the Antebellum United States, a...
The April 2016 release of Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia includes a collection of observations on tropical medicine, an anthology of poems...
The June release of Black Authors, 1556-1922: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia includes the portents of a West Indian astrologer, a scholar’s escape from being tarred and feathered...
This month we focus on three heavily illustrated works found in the April release of American Pamphlets, 1820-1922: From the New-York Historical Society. The New York and Brooklyn Bridge Illustrated...
Walt Whitman's poem "America" was first published in The New York Herald on February 11, 1888. This short but significant work appeared on page four in the middle of a column-long article headlined...
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...
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...
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...
