A Southern eccentric defends slavery as a form of socialism, a Southern abolitionist and her mixed-race nephew fight racism, and a great writer helps a New Hampshire boy win the approval of the South...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex Announces The American Slavery Collection, 1820-1922 Thousands of valuable printed works about one of the key topics in U.S. history, all digitized...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex to Launch The American Civil War Collection, 1860-1922 More than 13,000 printed works about the nation’s deadliest conflict, all digitized in full...
In 2003, Readex began a special partnership with Dartmouth College Library. Readex wished to scan a number of specific maps and color illustrations for our definitive digital edition of the 14,000...
Reflecting the diversity of Latin American and Caribbean studies today, here are four research collections spanning three centuries of regional history, issues and events. Caribbean Newspapers, Series...
The Boston News-Letter was the first continuously published newspaper in the British Colonies of North America, surviving for 72 years. It appeared 13 years after the one and only issue of America’s...
Last month Kim Gallon, founder and director of the Black Press Research Collective (BPRC) and assistant professor of history at Muhlenberg College, interviewed James Danky, editor of African-American...
In Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, one undisputed fact occurred: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and his...
A weekly African American newspaper, the Washington Bee was often the boldest of the several dozen papers published in the District of Columbia in the decades before and after the turn of the 20th...
African-American intellectual life, vibrant despite the odds against it, is notable among the themes of the works in the September 2013 release of Afro-Americana Imprints. Frederick Douglass makes a...
It was worldwide news when Chairman Mao Tse-tung, “the great leader of the Chinese people,” went for a swim in the Yangtze River on July 16, 1966. According to Peking NCNA International Service in...
While pirates form a colorful facet to the history of the West Indies, it is a small facet of a complex world that now looms larger than ever in the minds of historians. The reasons for this interest...
Called “the Harper’s Weekly of the Black Press” by historian Irving Garland Penn, the Freeman was the first illustrated African-American newspaper. It was founded in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1888 by...
Today Readex distributed this press release: Readex to Launch Digital Edition of Caribbean Newspapers New collection is essential for research on Colonial history, the slave trade and the Atlantic...
In recognition of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 to October 15, we are presenting this article by Nicolás Kanellos, published previously in The Readex Report: Cultural...
The digital edition of Afro-Americana Imprints, one of the world’s preeminent collections for African American studies, is available as a single complete collection, or in one or more of the following...
“I, sin [have seen] mani things,—and ron mani dangres.” So begins the phonetically-spelled journal of a peripatetic 19th-century seaman. The helpful parenthetical translation—[have seen] for “sin”...
Our guest blogger is Louise Paolacci, Director, Bezi Publishing Services Pty Ltd, Australia This September marks the 30th anniversary of Australia’s momentous victory in the America’s Cup yacht race...
From 230 years ago, as reprinted in the New-York Gazetteer or Northern Intelligencer on the first of September 1783: Click to open full article n PDF. "The four Winds (the Initials of which make the...
Look for this new Readex advertisement in the fall 2013 issue of Documents to the People, the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association...
To date, more than 1,900 imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection are available in the Readex digital edition. Here are a few titles of special interest...
This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington during which Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Calling for an end to racism, the speech was...
This year's U.S. Open marked the 100th anniversary of one of golf’s most memorable moments: the incredible performance of a 20-year-old amateur in the same event in 1913. Francis Ouimet’s win—the most...
From its first session, Congress concerned itself with the publication of its own proceedings. By 1815, a definite set of publication types along with a schema for numbering volumes and publications...
