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America's Historical Newspapers, http://infoweb.newsbank.com/best/academiceanall (access by subscription only). Created and maintained by Readex, a division of NewsBank. Reviewed Oct. 2009.
It has long been possible to buy the front page of a particular issue of the New York Times so that you can read about what happened on the day you were born. Now, thanks to the wonders of technology, you can also easily find out what happened on just about any other day in the history of the country too. Readex has launched a new subscription-based Web site, America's Historical Newspapers, that enables users to travel through time and call up issues of various newspapers to conduct, for example, a thorough study of the Civil War in the 1860s, analyze the stock market as it soared in the 1920s, or track the slugger Mickey Mantle's baseball career throughout the 1950s. Using a simple search function, users can bring to life on their monitors the pages of an old newspaper from any major American city - and some small towns - and read about whatever person or event they choose.
For example, one can call up any number of colonial-era newspapers to track the beginnings of the American...