About: David Loiterstein
- David’s responsibilities include marketing strategy as well as advertising, promotion and publicity activities. In addition, he is the editor of the Readex Report, a quarterly e-newsletter featuring original articles by librarians and researchers on diverse aspects of digital historical collections and related topics.
Posts by David Loiterstein:
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The Reviews Are In: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998,
02 May 2012
Now complete, African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 has been reviewed in three major library publications: Library Journal, Reference Reviews and Choice. Here is an excerpt from each: From Library Journal (May 1, 2012) — “A collection of the full text and indexing for more than 270 19th- and 20th-century U.S. newspapers from 37 states (plus the [...]
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Just published — The Readex Report: April 2012,
24 Apr 2012
In our latest issue: The exonerated executioner of a Native American sorceress; profiling a polymathic chess master; using a local newspaper archive to uncover an American city’s past; and unremembered inhumanity that sparked a world war. Murder! Or the Remarkable Trial of Tommy Jemmy, 19th-Century Seneca Witch-Hunter and Defender of Indian Sovereignty By Matthew Dennis, [...]
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Local Intelligence: Exploring the Past of My Adopted Hometown,
05 Apr 2012
Our Guest Blogger: Barbara Shaffer, unofficial historian of Springfield, Massachusetts Memories take many forms: stories of an older person, memorabilia preserved in a scrapbook, and even creative wonderings piqued by the sight of an old building. Reminiscences like these offer initial clues to local history, and—in my continual quest to learn more about my adopted hometown—I scour [...]
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Announcing the digital edition of Washington, D.C.’s Evening Star, 1852-1922,
19 Mar 2012
This spring Readex will begin releasing a complete 70-year span of The Evening Star—one of the most influential newspapers in U.S. history. For more than a century, historians have regarded The Evening Star as the newspaper of record for the nation’s capital. Today, curators from leading newspaper repositories cite this long-running afternoon daily as one [...]
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Readex announces Early American Newspapers, Series 8 and Series 9, 1832-1922,
15 Mar 2012
This spring Readex will begin releasing two new series in its acclaimed Early American Newspapers collection. Early American Newspapers, Series 8 and Series 9 both feature full runs through 1922 of important, long-running titles from diverse regions of the United States. Each is notable for its depth of 19th- and early 20th-century news coverage, as [...]
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The Connecticut Webster on Slavery (by Joshua Kendall),
06 Mar 2012
The Connecticut Webster on Slavery By Joshua Kendall, author of The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture The pure-bred New Englander revered the Constitution. Though the eloquent statesman hated slavery, he sought to eradicate this evil without destroying the union. Division was anathema to him, as could perhaps [...]
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Librarian turned award-winning biographer hails research value of historical newspapers,
01 Mar 2012
Kate Buford, who began her career as a Wall Street law librarian with an MLS from Columbia University, has written the first comprehensive biography of Jim Thorpe, widely regarded as America’s greatest all-around athlete. Library Journal called Buford’s work “the definitive biography of a legendary figure in American history, in and out of sports. An [...]
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Budding novelist uses online newspaper archive to recreate the Civil War-era French Quarter,
21 Feb 2012
Guest blogger: Ja-ne de Abreu, an award-winning writer in the media production industry currently embarking on her first novel The Louisiana Historical Newspaper Archive has proven to be an invaluable source for research for me. Currently, I am writing a historical novel set in New Orleans during the Civil War. Before access to this digital [...]
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Franklin scholar uses America’s Historical Newspapers to trace an ingenious hoax,
16 Feb 2012
In December 2008 an essay about one of Benjamin Franklin’s cleverest hoaxes was published in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Written by distinguished Franklin scholar Carla Mulford, “Benjamin Franklin’s Savage Eloquence: Hoaxes from the Press at Passy, 1782” was awarded the prestigious William L. Mitchell Prize from the Bibliographical Society of America on [...]
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Just published — The Readex Report: February 2012,
14 Feb 2012
In our latest issue: The emancipation efforts of a forgotten Founding Father; a felonious figure pens a revered evangelical reference; and social media’s unprecedented impact on academic networking. The Connecticut Webster on Slavery By Joshua Kendall, author of The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster’s Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture The pure-bred New [...]
