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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

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

By Kelly J. Baker,

Instructor, University of New Mexico

American Indians in Major League Baseball: Now and Then

By Royse Parr,

Society of American Baseball Research

Slinging Mud and Talking Trash: The Gutter Age of American Journalism

By Eric Burns,

Host of Fox NewsWatch and author of Infamous Scribblers

"I am scholar—hear me roar! Primary materials rule." Students Test the Scholar in the Digital Archive

By Edward J. Gallagher,

Professor of English, Lehigh University

"Find Ten Primary Sources by Tuesday": Tips for Teaching Students to Use Digital Archives

By Molly Strothmann,

Social and Behavioral Sciences Reference Librarian, University of Oklahoma Libraries

A Few More of These Egyptian Carcasses: The Beginnings of Mummymania in Nineteenth-Century America

By S.J. Wolfe,

Senior Cataloguer and Serials Specialist, American Antiquarian Society

Nineteenth Century Imperial Manhood in Clipper Ship Cards

By Jeffrey Gagnon,

Ph.D. candidate in Early American Literature, University of California, San Diego

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

By Elizabeth Robeson,

M.Phil, Columbia University