“Readex, a division of NewsBank, has been publishing primary research materials for over 60 years and has partnered with the American Antiquarian Society for almost that long.
Additionally, all America’s Historical Newspapers series are cross-searchable with all other Archive of Americana ® collections. A distinguished academic advisory board guided the title selection process.Īs part of America’s Historical Newspapers, Early American Newspapers, Series 9 shares a common interface with all other Readex newspaper series, including American Ethnic Newspapers. These titles include the Auburn Daily Bulletin, one of the most highly regarded dailies in northwestern New York Boston Traveler and Daily Evening Traveler, daily and weekly versions of this prominent competitor to The Boston Herald Cape Ann Light and Gloucester Telegraph, from one of New England’s oldest ship-building and fishing centers New York’s Daily Graphic, featuring lavish illustrations of contemporary news events and notable personalities and Newark Daily Advertiser, a respected daily that become the Newark Star-Ledger.īibliographic control for Series 9 comes from Winifred Gregory’s “American Newspapers, 1821-1936” as well as by records from the Library of Congress. Series 9 also provides five newspapers spanning critical 19th-century eras. Series 9 includes major titles of singular importance, including The Boston Herald, one of America’s top three papers in circulation in the 1870s Bay City Times, which captures dramatic changes in Michigan as the automobile industry created a massive influx of immigrant workers and the American labor movement divided the state and Marietta Journal, a key newspaper capturing the challenges facing the South at the turn of the century.Īlso here are the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the newspaper of record for the capital of Virginia predecessors of the Rockford Register Star, one of the oldest and largest papers in Illinois predecessors of the San Diego Union-Tribune, this city’s longestrunning and most important newspaper and the Tampa Tribune, one of Florida’s oldest and most significant publications. Long-running titles from across the nation
Together, the titles in Series 9 further expand the political, geographical and chronological depth of Early American Newspapers. Also in Series 9 are significant 19th-century newspapers which chronicle the Jacksonian Era, the war with Mexico and Western expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Each is notable for its depth of 19th- and early 20th-century news coverage, as exemplified by the large number of pages in every issue.
Early American Newspapers, Series 9 features full runs through 1922 of important, long-running titles from diverse regions of the U.S.
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