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Resisting Repression: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Age of Global Surveillance

Phillip Luke Sinitiere,

Scholar in Residence, W.E.B. Du Bois Center, UMass Amherst

“Typical English sportsmen and an exceedingly good lot”: The Corinthians and Soccer in South Africa

Chris Bolsmann,

California State University Northridge

Dilwyn Porter,

De Montfort University

Womanhood, Religion, and Slavery: Dialogues from the Readex African American Newspapers Series

Barbara McCaskill,

Professor, Department of English, University of Georgia

Michelle-Taylor Sherwin,

PhD Student, Department of English, University of Georgia

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Finding Women in the Flash Press: From Entrepreneurs and Entertainers to Criminals and Consumers

April 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 1)

Washington Goode and Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor: Race and the Death Penalty through Nineteenth-Century Media

The Cultural Work of Child’s Play: Examples from Three Picture Books in Readex Digital Collections

Rascalities and Notorieties: Salacious and Satirical Illustrations in the Flash Press of the Nineteenth Century

November 2019 (Volume 14, Issue 2)

The Value of Digitized Newspaper Collections in Researching Neglected Women’s Writing: Two Newly Recovered Works by Ella Rhoads Higginson, First Poet…

The Role of Women in Early American Presidential Campaigns: Using Newspapers to Explore the Informal Politics of the Jacksonian Era

Envisaging Freedom on the Eve of Emancipation: The British Caribbean, 1833-1834

March 2019 (Volume 14, Issue 1)

Antebellum America’s Galvanizing Issue: The Tariff

Black Freethought from Slavery to Civil Rights: Atheism and Agnosticism in African American Cultural and Intellectual Life

Fields of Fire and Frost: The Battle of Chickamauga and Weather in Early American Newspapers

October 2018 (Volume 13, Issue 2)

Thomas Hamblin’s House of Blood and Thunder: The Transformation of New York’s Bowery Theatre in the Early 19th Century

Speaking Out in Thunder Tones: Black Chosenness and “Our Government” in the Earliest African American Newspapers

Anticipating a National History for a New Republic

March 2018 (Volume 13, Issue 1)

Two Women Who Spied During the American Civil War: Going Undercover with Belle Boyd and Pauline Cushman in the Archive of Americana

October 2017 (Volume 12, Issue 2)

Popular Articles

Frontiersman or Southern Gentleman? Newspaper Coverage of Andrew Jackson…

By Mark Cheathem,

Associate Professor of History, Cumberland University

W. E. B. Du Bois’s Lectures and Speeches: A Brief History

By Phillip Luke Sinitiere,

Scholar in Residence, W.E.B. Du Bois Center, UMass Amherst

Religion and the Rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1922

By Kelly J. Baker,

Instructor, University of New Mexico

Black Freethought from Slavery to Civil Rights: Atheism and Agnosticism in African…

By Christopher Cameron,

Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Measuring Time in a Blissful Dawn: William Wordsworth and American…

By Matthew Rainbow Hale,

Assistant Professor of History, Goucher College

The Nanjing Atrocities Reported in the U.S. Newspapers, 1937-38

By Suping Lu,

Professor and Library Liaison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Robinson Interregnum: The Black Press Responds to the Signing of Jackie…

By Thomas Aiello,

Associate Professor of History, Valdosta State University

Cycling Champion Major Taylor and the African American Press

By Lynne Tolman,

Major Taylor Association