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From the Missouri Republican, Apr. 1, 1888. Click to open. Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. When she was 19 months old, an illness left her both deaf and blind. A...

[This article by Donna L. Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication at Lesley University, first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The Readex Report.] I have been a media historian for several...

A wide selection of diverse titles reveals local, regional and national history Dozens of significant titles from more than 40 states are available individually as a part of America’s Historical...

February 27, 1923. Miss Alice Reighly, Anti-Flirt Club president, Washington, D.C. New York Congressman Chris Lee recently was caught not exactly with his pants down but certainly with his shirt off...

[This article by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University first appeared in the February 2011 issue of The...

One hundred years ago this month, Ronald Reagan was born in the Illinois village of Tampico. Other prominent Americans born in 1911 include Lucille Ball, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Bishop, Hank...

Farmers' Register (14 May 1805) An early mention of Valentine’s Day in an American newspaper comes from the Farmers' Register (Lansingburgh, NY). This article, reprinted from an unnamed British paper...

In his highly regarded 2006 Yale Book of Quotations, Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro gives on page 649 the following source for the phrase “lunatic fringe”: The lunatic fringe was fully in evidence...

[This article by the late Clifford J. Doerksen—who presented "bad news from the past" in his dark and witty blog, The Hope Chest—appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report. A brilliant...

Readex distributed this press release on January 5. Readex to Launch Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection, 1799-1971 Partnership with the leading ethnic research center in the U.S...

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by American painter Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art) No Christmas celebration would be complete without Santa Claus, carols and...

[This post by David Brooks, a recent graduate of Taylor University, first appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report.] Of all the events that occurred during America’s colonial era...

[This post by James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power (HarperCollins, 2010), first appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Readex Report.] The most...

The 1988 return to flight launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery (Source: NASA Images) The highly anticipated launch of space shuttle Discovery later this month will mark the beginning of an end. The...

In this issue: how digitized newspapers shine a brilliant light on past lives; the profound impact of religion on African-American identity; the Boston Tea Party as perceived by both Colonialists and...

Our guest blogger today is SJ Wolfe, Senior Cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society and Independent Mummyologist SJ Wolfe and 19th-century mummy Padihershef When I began my project ten years...

Map Credit: Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida. Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the...

Jane Cunningham Croly (Source: The Bohemian Brigade Website) If Jane Cunningham Croly, the influential 19th-century journalist, were to speak at a public event today, possibly at a place similar to...

AHRC RESEARCH NETWORK – CALL FOR PAPERS Principal Investigator Dr Martin Conboy, Department of Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield This is a call for expressions of interest for the first two...

Paper: The State; Date: Dec. 5, 1905; Issue 5302; Page 1; Columbia, South Carolina In a recent article entitled “Who Said It First?” on the Web site Slate, Jack Shafer investigates who first coined...

The September 2010 issue of the Journal of American History—the quarterly journal of the Organization of American Historians—features this review of America's Historical Newspapers. It has long been...

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the initial uprising that would lead to the independence of Mexico from Spain. 2010 is also the 100th anniversary of the Mexican revolution of 1910, which...

"Spirit of the Frontier" by John Gast (1872) Since the late 1800s, historians have debated the importance of the frontier on the development of American institutions and culture. For some, the Western...

Panel Chair: Chris Phillips, Lafayette College Scholarly interest in early American religions has greatly expanded in recent years across a variety of disciplines. This panel is intended to generate...