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A biannual publication offering insights into the use of digital historical collections

April 2021 issue

The Flash Press: New York’s Early 19th-Century “Sporting” Underworld as a Unique Source of Slang

Jonathon Green,

author of Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Black Women in the Women’s Era, 1890-1920: Course Assignments Using Readings from Afro-Americana Imprints

Katherine Hijar,

Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum

Antebellum Arithmetic and Abolitionist Newspapers

Lukas Etter,

University of Siegen, Germany

Recent Issues

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

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

November 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 2)

Archives of Freedom: Fugitive Science in Antebellum Black Newspapers

Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford Pushes Back: The Politics of Antislavery in the Early Twentieth-Century Press

Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford Pushes Back: The Politics of Antislavery in the Early Twentieth-Century Press

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

March 2018 (Volume 13, Issue 1)

Popular Articles

Creating the Fourth Branch of Government: The Role of the Press in…

By Stephanie Hurter Williams,

Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State

User-Centered Design for Digital Collections

By Michael Edmonds,

Digital Librarian, Wisconsin Historical Society

What's Cooking in the Library? Tested Recipes for Building Digital Libraries…

By Laurie N. Taylor,

Digital Projects Technology Librarian, University of Florida

American Mystery Meat: Unriddling the Mince Pie

By Clifford J. Doerksen,

author of American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)

Conducting Biographical Research in Government Publications, Part II: John…

By Steve Daniel,

Senior Editorial Consultant, Readex

Ephemeral Loyalties? Consumption, Commerce and Jeffersonian Politics, 1806-…

By Joanna Cohen,

School of History at Queen Mary, University of London

Finding Fatalism and Overconfidence in a Cruel Port: The Bubonic Plague's…

By Ian Olivo Read,

author of The Hierarchies of Slavery in Santos, Brazil, 1822-1889 (Stanford University Press)

Digging Up Crime Stories from America's Past: Tips and Technique from a…

By Anthony Vaver,

author of Bound with an Iron Chain,