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08/29/2025

📜 On January 25, 1787, Daniel Shays sent a petition to General Benjamin Lincoln requesting "...all troops on the part of the government be disbanded immediately, and that all and every person, who has been acting, or any way aiding or assisting in any of the late rising of the people my be indemnified in their person and property..."

🔥 But the insurrection that erupted in August 1786 culminated in violent clashes between the Massachusetts militia and the "Regulators" ending in the defeat of the Regulators in early February 1787.

💰 Unrest was the result of a growing debt crisis that fell hard on the shoulders of rural farmers awaiting pay for military service. The rebellion exposed weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and may have played a role in the Constitutional Convention.

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08/28/2025

💡 Understand historical texts in amazing new ways! Readex Text Explorer is integrated into nearly all Readex collections with tools robust enough for researchers yet still accessible to students.

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This article, originally published May 13, 2020, has been updated.For many years, faculty and students have been asking Readex to “bring history to life” in new ways. “You have tremendous products,” they tell us, "and we love them. Thank you. We’d love them even more if we could do more th...

08/27/2025

August 15 marked the 80th anniversary of VJ Day - the day the Japanese surrendered to the Allies ending World War II.

Years before the war in the Pacific ended the war in Europe was escalating. In December 1940, the Blitz was ravaging British cities but Germany not only attacking with bombs, it pursued a relentless campaign of radio propaganda.

The propaganda was transcribed and summarized in daily reports by BBC Monitoring and is now available to researchers from Readex.

Study the December 1940 propaganda campaign: https://ow.ly/AtZ650WGM8R

BBC Monitoring was founded in 1939 to gather intelligence from real-time radio broadcasts to understand global dynamics and assess emerging threats. The Readex digital archive puts this critical intelligence into the hands of researchers for the first time, offering essential background for new insights into 20th century global history.

08/26/2025

🎉💪 Happy National Women’s Equality Day!

🥾 Read stories about the sheros that tread upon expectations to forge a path toward equality:
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08/25/2025

"These are not parks in the common meaning of the word. They are not beautiful tracts of cultivated country with smooth lawns and winding paths like Central Park in New York, or Lincoln Park in Chicago, or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. They are, on the contrary, large areas which nature, not man, has made beautiful and which the hand of man alters only enough to provide roads to enter them, trails to pe*****te their fastnesses, and hotels and camps to live in." (1916)

The National Park Service was established on this day in 1916.

From American Pamphlets, 1820-1922: https://www.readex.com/products/american-pamphlets-series-1-1820-1922-new-york-historical-society

08/22/2025

BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts is a crucial archive for scholars of 20th century global history. Learn more in 1 minute.

One of the most important historical archives of its time, BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts is now available for the first time as a digital prima...

08/20/2025

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08/18/2025

📡 BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts - Library Journal Best Reference 2024 - covers the arc of global 20th century history from World War II through the end of the Cold War.

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BBC Monitoring: Summary of World Broadcasts British point of view complements the U.S. record of 20th century global history from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report, also available from Readex.

08/15/2025

🔎 Bringing context, nuance, and visibility to stories that have long been concealed.

🏳️‍🌈 The LGBTQ+ Life in America advanced language-mapping and editorial methods decode historical euphemisms and references to LGBTQ+ people across centuries. This one-of-a-kind collection surfaces millions of documents from the early 18th century through modern developments like marriage equality and gender identity rights.

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08/13/2025

The story of LGBTQ+ Americans is rich and varied, a mosaic of discrimination, criminalization, oppression, resistance, achievement, and triumph. Yet prior to the 1970s, their presence was all but hidden—obscured by veiled language, media bias, or total omission. For this reason, many LGBTQ+ people remained ignored, undetected, and almost invisible to most researchers – until now.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/ja6T50WCWQQ

08/11/2025

LGBTQ+ Life in America brings to light the voices and experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals throughout U.S. history. Drawing from more than 16,000 news sources, this matchless archive empowers researchers to examine how LGBTQ+ communities have shaped—and been shaped by—society, politics, and culture over the last three centuries.

Learn more: https://ow.ly/6NXF50WCWSU