Include: (August 2016)
1.
Early American Newspapers Series 1.
Providing unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, Series 1 enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia. Series 1 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 historical American titles. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. The core of the Readex digital collection consists of American Antiquarian Society (AAS) founder Isaiah Thomas’ own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and is supplemented by issues added by Thomas’ successors at the AAS.
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2.
Early American Newspapers, Series 2, 1758-1900
Series 2 offers more than 290 significant 18th- and 19th-century newspapers from every region of the United States. Series 2 focuses on the period between 1820 and 1860, when the number of American newspapers rose dramatically. In the first half of the 19th century, the number of American newspapers increased from less than 200 to more than 3,000. During this time period, westward expansion and the penny press helped create thousands of local newspapers, and daily editions replaced many weeklies. In addition, the format of newspapers was transformed by an increasing emphasis on society, industry, scientific advances, investigative journalism and stories of human interest.
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3.
Early American Newspapers, Series 3, 1783-1922
Series 3 provides more than 120 important 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from every region of the United States. The titles focus on the period between 1861 and 1900. Like Series 2, Series 3 provides in-depth coverage of the mid-19th century and the Civil War, but Series 3 also focuses on Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era and beyond. Between 1861 and 1900, the number and size of newspapers continued to grow rapidly, as the adoption of the telegraph and the prevalence of the Associated Press contributed to a second transformation of the newspaper industry in the 19th century.
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20th-Century American Newspapers, Series 1
Includes these titles:
The
Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana; 1923-1988)
The
Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio; 1923-1991)
The
Oregonian (Portland, Oregon; 1923-1987)
One of America's most important newspapers,
The Times-Picayune has been a mainstay of Louisiana life for nearly 200 years. In 1925, when newspapers printed literature as well as news, The Times-Picayune published short pieces by a young William Faulkner. Also in these 20th-century pages are essential reporting on the rise, rule and assassination of Governor Huey Long; disenfranchisement and segregation of the region's African Americans; Louisiana's French, Spanish, Acadian, African and French West Indian heritage; and more.
The nation's fifth largest city in the 1920s and '30s, Cleveland has long benefited from
The Plain Dealer, winner of numerous awards in widely respected newspaper competitions. These issues of Ohio's largest daily paper chronicle attempts to energize the region after the Great Depression, the local boom after World War II and the election in 1967 of the first black mayor of a major U.S. city. Also in these pages are the diverse citizens whose joint efforts led to Cleveland's five-time recognition—first in 1949—as an All-American City.
The longest-running newspaper on the West Coast, The
Oregonian has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes. The major daily paper in Portland features extensive reporting on the people and events that shaped the modern history of the Pacific Northwest. These issues cover the local growth that followed construction of the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River and regional expansion of the food and timber industries. In addition, these pages document the conflicts that have polarized Oregon residents in the 20th century, including, for example, those pitting social progressives against small government conservatives.