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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

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November 2020 (Volume 15, Issue 2)

Archives of Freedom: Fugitive Science in Antebellum Black Newspapers

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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

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

By Suping Lu,

Professor and Library Liaison, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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

By Kelly J. Baker,

Instructor, University of New Mexico

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

By Matthew Rainbow Hale,

Assistant Professor of History, Goucher College

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

By Kenneth E. Carpenter,

Harvard University Library, retired

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

By John Odell,

Publisher, Digger Odell Publications

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

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

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author of Clipper Ship Sailing Cards