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Archives of Freedom: Fugitive Science in Antebellum Black Newspapers

Britt Rusert,

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

Barbara McCaskill,

Professor, Department of English, University of Georgia

Sidonia Serafini,

PhD Student, Department of English, University of Georgia

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

Katherine Hijar,

Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum

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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

A True Tale of Adultery, Murder, and Dismemberment in Black Women's History

Gas! Gas! Gas! Anesthesia History in Early American Newspapers, Pamphlets and Broadsides

October 2017 (Volume 12, Issue 2)

The Robinson Interregnum: The Black Press Responds to the Signing of Jackie Robinson, October 23, 1945-March 1, 1946

March 2017 (Volume 12, Issue 1)

Popular Articles

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

By Kelly J. Baker,

Instructor, University of New Mexico

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

By Suping Lu,

Professor and Library Liaison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

By Matthew Rainbow Hale,

Assistant Professor of History, Goucher College

This Headache Is Killing Me: The Bromo-Seltzer Poisonings of 1898

By John Odell,

Publisher, Digger Odell Publications

American Indians in Major League Baseball: Now and Then

By Royse Parr,

Society of American Baseball Research

Life out of Darkness: The Recovery of Julia Peterkin, Forgotten Pulitzer Prize Winner…

By Elizabeth Robeson,

M.Phil, Columbia University

Benjamin Franklin’s “The Way to Wealth”: Documenting Its…

By Kenneth E. Carpenter,

Harvard University Library, retired

Chinese Exclusion Acts: A Brief History of United States Legislation Aimed at…

By Suping Lu,

Professor and Library Liaison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln