America's Historical Newspapers

Savage Sessions: The Lost History of Congressional Violence in Antebellum America | Readex Readex, a division of NewsBank since 1984, publishes collections of primary source research materials. In the early 1940s, publisher Albert Boni, co-founder of the Modern Library, formed the Readex Microprint Corporation in New York City and Chester, Vermont. In 1955, the American Antiquarian Societ...

"So says Mr. Cicada, alias the Seventeen Year Locust" (Kansas City Star, June 5 1913)

“Black Representative of a White Idea”: John Willis Menard, 1868 Representative-Elect from Louisiana https://www.readex.com/blog/black-representative-white-idea-john-willis-menard-1868-representative-elect-louisiana

Notable titles in 's digital Ethnic American Newspapers from the Balch Collection -- an America's Historical Newspapers collection

A few of the notable titles in African American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2--available within America's Historical Newspapers

A key series of Early American Newspapers

A New 1-Minute Video—Series 10 of Early American Newspapers: Regional Pioneers

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Explore nearly 900 issues of the Arkansas State Press published between 1941-1959 in African American Newspapers, including this 1957 issue featuring local reporting on the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School.

Researched using America's Historical Newspapers...

The Hazy Shade of Winter, and What the Groundhog Found There

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"The Salk vaccine works--safely, potently--and can virtually end the fear....The triumph of the vaccine was announced in an atmosphere of supercharged excitement..." (Evening Star, April 12 1955)

Researched using America's Historical Newspapers

‘Men of Meanness Preferred’: The 1798 Sedition Trial of Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon
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Research using Early American Newspapers and other Readex products...

Noyes Complaints: A White Mob (and 90 Yoke of Oxen) Drag a Racially Integrated School from Its Foundations in 1835 New Hampshire

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The newest content in America's Historical Newspapers -- More than 60 Midwestern papers published in 10 American states during a crucial period in the region’s evolution

Explore the history, culture, and growth of the Midwestern United States--Announcing Series 17 of Early American Newspapers
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“A wholesome lesson to the other Sioux”: The Massacre at Wounded Knee
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"Debaters split widely...in 3d TV session"-- Washington Evening Star coverage of Nixon-Kennedy debate of Oct. 13, 1960, which was telecast in split-screen format 60 years ago.

On most issues "the Republican and Democratic candidates were almost as far apart as the 3,000 miles that separated them."

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Trilbymania: How a Victorian Novel Became a Viral Sensation in 19th-Century America

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At the turn of the century the greatest of all daredevil stunts in America was performed by a French woman. Learn about her “fearful frolic with fate”—“a dreadful, headlong leap, loop and topsy turvy plunging somersault” in a car—on the Readex Blog today. https://www.readex.com/blog/mauricia-de-tiers-and-her-sensational-dip-death-fearless-young-frenchwoman-who-thrilled

'Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980' features hundreds of fully searchable newspapers published in the U.S. by Hispanics.

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"Sadness in Old Chinatown" -- Washington Evening Star, 1932

Research using Early American Newspapers

Women’s Suffrage in the U.S.: The Long Fight for Passage of the 19th Amendment
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"Suffragists Storm House....Women in Force at Capitol. Opponents of suffrage knit and sew while waiting for debate....Miss Alice Paul...was cheered as she took her place in the gallery."

Follow events leading to passage of the 19th Amendment in Early American Newspapers.

Research using Early American Newspapers

“Not Over By Any Means”: Quack Influenza Cures from Year Two of the https://www.readex.com/blog/not-over-any-means-quack-influenza-cures-year-two-1918-pandemic

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Research on the 1918 Flu Pandemic using Early American Newspapers..

The Anti-Mask League of San Francisco: Protesting a Mask-Wearing Ordinance During the 1918 Flu Pandemic

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Featuring multiple examples from Early American Newspapers...

“Toward That Crooked Path”: Early Motion Pictures Said to Induce Criminal Behavior in Impressionable Viewers

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Ad found in Early American Newspapers...

"Wear a mask and you may save a life. Your life, the lives of your family, relatives, friends and others are endangered. The mast will greatly assist to eliminate influenza contagion. Save time and money--make your own mask." (Oregonian, 1919)

"The Influence of a Generation" -- Chester Arthur Burnett, the legend Howlin' Wolf, was born in 1910. This obituary appeared in the Washington Evening Star in 1976.

Samples of "Police Brutality" reporting from the Plaindealer of Kansas City, KS, during the 1940s. Found in
Readex's African American Newspapers database.

"Can you imagine what great-grandmother would have thought if anybody had confided to her that in the year 1920 her athletic great-granddaughter would be playing football on a college team instead of staying home to crochet antimacassars?" - Plain Dealer

Science history research using Early American Newspapers...

“Silkeries of the Skies”: The Solar Superstorm of 1859

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Research on American Spiritualism using Early American Newspapers...

Ghosted: The Eddy Family’s Questionable Claims to Occult Powers in Nineteenth-Century Vermont

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