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American Underworld: The Flash Press

The Flash Press: New York’s Early 19th-Century “Sporting” Underworld as a Unique Source of Slang

Green’s Dictionary of Slang, launched in print in 2010 and available online since 2016, currently offers some 55,400 entries, in which are nested around 135,000 discrete words and phrases, underpinned by over 655,000 examples of use, known as citations. Thanks to the online environment, it has been possible to offer...

Finding Women in the Flash Press: From Entrepreneurs and Entertainers to Criminals and Consumers

American Underworld: The Flash Press offers rare glimpses of women's place and presence in nineteenth-century northeastern American cities. The digital collection is particularly rich in evidence of women as entrepreneurs, entertainers, and consumers of goods and cultural products. Cultural historians and literary scholars will also find fictional women across the...

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