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A Light on Past Lives: The Illuminating Effects of Electronic Resources on Biographical Research
By James McGrath Morris, author of Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
“The Great Upheaval”: Tracking Jim Thorpe’s Swift Fall from Grace after the 1912 Olympics
By Kate Buford, author of Native American Son: The Life and Sporting Legend of Jim Thorpe
The Digital Detective: Tracking Criminals When the Trail Runs Cold
By Stephen Mihm, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
Searching for the Forgotten Movie Mogul: William Fox, Founder of Twentieth Century Fox
By Vanda Krefft, author of The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox
The Lost Prince of American Bohemians: The Strange Life and Mysterious Death of Ralph Keeler, Literary Vagabond
By Thomas Ruys Smith, author of Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain
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Commemorating W.E.B. Du Bois and “The Crisis”: Reflections on Religion and American History
By Phillip Luke Sinitiere, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
Excavating Antebellum Black Politics via America’s Historical Newspapers
By Van Gosse, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, Franklin & Marshall College
The Robinson Interregnum: The Black Press Responds to the Signing of Jackie Robinson, October 23, 1945-March 1, 1946
By Thomas Aiello, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, Valdosta State University
Writing the David Ruggles Biography: Newspapers Help Complete the Portrait of a Radical Black Abolitionist
By Graham Russell Gao Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
A True Tale of Adultery, Murder, and Dismemberment in Black Women’s History
By Kali Nicole Gross, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
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Early American Newspapers and the Adverts 250 Project: Integrating Primary Sources into the Undergraduate History Classroom
By Carl Robert Keyes, Associate Professor of History, Assumption College
Student Scholars: Using Early American Imprints to Introduce Students to the Era and to the Field
By Julie R. Voss, Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of American Studies Program, Lenoir-Rhyne University
Dirty Searching and Roundabout Paths: Using Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922, in a Master’s Level Seminar
By Susanna Ashton, Professor, American Literature, Clemson University
Travel to New Worlds: Reconceptualizing Research and Early America with Early American Imprints
By Kelly Wisecup, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northwestern University
“I am scholar—hear me roar! Primary materials rule.” Students Test the Scholar in the Digital Archive
By Edward J. Gallagher, Professor of English, Lehigh University
