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Early American Newspapers Series I, 1690-1876 (Readex)
Early American Newspapers Series I, 1690-1876 Overview
Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 offers 340,000 fully searchable issues from over 730 invaluable American newspapers. 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. Providing unprecedented access to the nation’s early periods, Early American Newspapers, Series 1, enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia.
Newspapers—the first draft of history
Early American newspapers, often printed by small-town printers, documented the daily life of hundreds of diverse American communities, supported different political parties and recorded both majority and minority views. Among the hundreds of notable titles in Series 1 are the American Mercury (Hartford, Connecticut); American Minerva (New York); Arkansas Weekly Gazette (Little Rock); City Gazette (Charleston, South Carolina); Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, D.C.); Eastern Argus (Portland, Maine); Enquirer (Richmond, Virginia); Evening Post (New York City); Georgia Gazette (Savannah); Massachusetts Spy (Boston and Worcester); New-England Courant (Boston); New-Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth); Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia); Providence Patriot (Rhode Island); Vermont Gazette (Bennington), and many others.
In cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society
The core of the Readex 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. Numerous other institutions and historical societies have contributed to the collection, including the Boston Athenaeum, the Connecticut Historical Society, the Connecticut State Library, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the libraries of universities such as Brown and Harvard and private collections. This joint effort has led to the creation of a historical newspaper collection of unparalleled breadth and depth.
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