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11/29/2025

🕵️ Take your mind off holiday shopping and immerse yourself in a Jazz Age murder mystery: https://ow.ly/BPrI50XtL0b

11/27/2025

The "Kindred Spirts" sculpture's nine steel feathers "represent the Choctaw Nation's strength, kindness, and humanity" and commemorate the nation's 1847 donation toward famine relief during Ireland's Great Hunger. https://ow.ly/ifYo50XrOls

11/26/2025

🧑‍🍳 Having a traditional stuffed turkey for Thanksgiving? Ensure historical authenticity with an 18th century recipe from The Frugal Housewife or American Cookery.

🥧 Find more early American foodways in Early American Imprints.

11/25/2025

"...a vice upon which relentless war shall be declared." The Society for the Suppression of Vice and the Comstock Act.

Read about Anthony Comstock and his decades long campaign against birth control and his impact on women's rights: https://ow.ly/tvBu50XrN2e

11/24/2025

"She is one of the best representations of the educated Indian": Zitkála-Šá and her Early Years.

Read about an extraordinary woman who's diverse experiences culminated in activism for Native American citizenship https://ow.ly/5nfJ50XrNR7

11/21/2025

“…the President may change at any time or modify this clause as he may think proper…”: Treaties with Native Groups in the Nineteenth Century

Read more: https://ow.ly/E6qh50XrMg9

11/20/2025

Ethan Allen: "...farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, hero, and politician..."

Read more on our blog: https://www.readex.com/blog/ethan-allen-farmer-businessman-land-speculator-philosopher-writer-lay-theologian-and-american

11/19/2025

Paul Revere's midnight ride is one of the most well known stories of the American Revolution. But he did not ride alone!

Read about William Dawes who's crucial role in the midnight ride did not make it into Longfellow's poem: https://ow.ly/8apW50XtKrh

11/18/2025

From the Readex Blog - Throw the Book at Them: The Perilous Project of Indian Education in the 19th Century https://ow.ly/KN2s50XrL7B

11/14/2025

🎉 Happy Children's Day! 🌈

‘The Village of Innocence’: Rare Children’s Books from the American Antiquarian Society illuminate the lives of early 19th-century children: https://ow.ly/Igp750XoBv4

11/12/2025

11/11/2025

The experiences of women in wartime have been less well documented than those of men. Examining primary sources reveals the contributions, sufferings, and heroism of the women who lived through, and often participated in, conflicts across multiple centuries.

Read about history women veterans: https://ow.ly/7nVt50Xl8rI