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Readex Announces Two New Series of Digitized Early American Newspapers

Publisher of Historical Documents to Offer New Web-Based Archive of
Americana Collections in Early 2006

NAPLES, Fla./Thursday, January 12, 2006 - Readex, a leading publisher of online historical collections, announced today that it will begin
publishing Early American Newspapers, Series II, 1758-1900 and Series
III, 1829-1922 in March 2006. Complementing Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876, these new series offer fully searchable digital facsimiles of more than 350 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers, totaling nearly three million pages. These and all Archive of Americana collections are published in cooperation with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS).

While many of the more than 650 titles in Early American Newspapers,
Series I were printed in the 18th century, the historical newspapers in
Series II and Series III are diverse chronologically and geographically.
The titles in Series II focus on the period between 1820 and 1860, when
the number of American newspapers rose dramatically, transformed by an increasing emphasis on local society, industry, scientific and
technological advances, crime, investigative journalism and stories of
human interest. The titles in Series III focus on the period between
1861 and 1900, reflecting the further growth of newspapers in number and in size following the formation of the Associated Press, during and
after the Civil War and throughout the period of westward expansion.
Both new series offer newspapers from all 50 present states.

"Early American Newspapers, Series II and Series III provide one of the
most balanced resources available for historical researchers,
encompassing newspapers ranging across a century of different political
and social perspectives-from Thomas Jefferson and Henry Clay to
socialism and free love," said Jeffrey L. Pasley, Associate Professor of
History, University of Missouri-Columbia. "With titles from all 50
present states, including the Indian Territory and Hawaii before the
time of American domination, these two new series have been carefully
constructed for strength in regions often underrepresented in library
collections, such as the Old Southwest."

"In offering papers ranging from the 'Aurora Borealis,' published in
Healey, Alaska, to the African-American 'Union,' published in New
Orleans, this new effort is wonderfully national and diverse," said
James P. Danky, the Wisconsin Historical Society's Newspapers and
Periodicals Librarian. "The Wisconsin Historical Society is pleased that
its enormously important newspaper holdings help extend the geographic
and political reach of this valuable digital collection."

"Traversing an extensive time period and every state in the union, Early
American Newspapers, Series II and Series III dramatically expand the
Archive of Americana's coverage of the 19th century," said Remmel Nunn, Readex Vice President of New Product Development. "They include key regional newspapers that existed up to 1922, supporting the quantitative research that only long-run titles allow."

Like Series I, Early American Newspapers, Series II, 1758-1900 and
Series III, 1829-1922 offer hundreds of significant titles listed in
Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. Based primarily on the holdings of the American Antiquarian Society, which houses a comprehensive collection of American newspapers through 1876, Series II and Series III also include titles from the acclaimed collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Library of Congress.

Bibliographic control for Series II and III's post-1820 titles comes from Winifred Gregory's "American Newspapers 1821-1936: A Union List of Files Available in the United States and Canada." Additionally, an academic advisory board of librarians, curators and historians supervised the title selection process, considering the historical significance of each newspaper and the diverse political positions of the period. All three Early American Newspapers series share the same America's Historical Newspapers interface, and together they comprise hundreds of thousands of issues from more than 1,000 titles, totaling more than four million pages.

For more information on Early American Newspapers or other Archive of
Americana collections, visit www.readex.com.

David G. Loiterstein
Marketing Manager
Readex
phone: 203.421.0152
e-mail: dloiterstein@readex.com
www.readex.com

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