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Post by T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Knopf) [Note: On April 7, 2011, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , as part of its 87th annual...

Our guest blogger today is Julie Ann McDaniel, Librarian, Swedenborg Memorial Library, Urbana University Source: The Historical Marker DataBase Mechanicsburg, Ohio is a really small place today—less...

Photo credit: Courtsey of Kheel Center The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was a business that made shirtwaists, the common term of the day for women's blouses. The business, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac...

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 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...

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...

What do the following seven people have in common: Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph, Modibo Keita, Shafie Ahmed el-Sheikh, Samora Machel, Agostinho Neto, Sam Nujoma and Nelson...

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...

“The Police, in Revolt; the Jails, Open; the Nation, in Riot; the Families, in Dismay” – Thus runs the headline of Mexico’s El Diario on November 25th, 1911, as the Mexican Revolution raged in the...

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...

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...

Proposing the 19th Amendment In her recent NewYork Times column titled " My Favorite August," Gail Collins wrote about women getting the right to vote in August 1920. The previous year—on May 19, 1919...

The Titanic (AP) Nearly a century after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, scientists are planning to revisit the site of the wreckage in mid-August with today’s most powerful imaging technology...

From America's Historical Newspapers When one thinks of Prince Otto von Bismarck, 19th-century Germany’s Iron Chancellor, birthday cakes and greetings do not first come to mind. But they did — at...

A Readex breakfast event during the 2010 American Library Association annual conference included a presentation by Steve Daniel, an internationally known authority on government documents. In "Dredges...

[ The Pope’s Stone, Part One discussed the theft and destruction of a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX in 1853 to be placed in the Washington Monument, under construction on the National Mall in...

From the Springfield Union, July 1, 1950, page 18 England will meet the United States in the first game either team plays in the 2010 World Cup. The tournament begins this Friday, June 11, with the...