Alexander Street Press has acquired the library
rights to two major products from John Adler, Founder and President
of HarpWeek LLC: Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912 and
Lincoln and the Civil War.
Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912 was one of the
first archival newspapers to be put up in electronic form and
remains a gold standard for the high quality of its manual indexing,
full text, and scans. Moreover, it has been supplemented with some
30 Web sites that provide contextual introductions and commentary
for selected works within the file. This, along with the importance
of the original publication, has led the database to be used heavily
in more than 500 libraries around the world. Alexander Street is now able to offer this database at lower prices than were previously available. Contact Eileen Lawrence for more details.
Developed in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth in 1809, Lincoln and the Civil War contains 49 periodicals – all published between 1860 and 1865 – sourced from 17 museum, library, and private collections, totaling more than 65,000 pages. For the first time, all known unique copies of publications such as Southern Illustrated News and Douglass’ Monthly can be viewed and searched together. Every page was custom scanned to ensure the highest quality in the many images.
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