Readex announces The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction

Readex has announced the release in Spring 2008 of The Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction - a fully searchable digital resource for students and scholars. This unique collection, selected from the Archive of Americana, provides extensive local and national coverage of culture, politics and society during a tumultuous time that redefined a nation. The Civil War features more than 180 newspapers as well as approximately 50,000 government documents and 3,500 broadsides and pieces of ephemera. Newspapers include the Baltimore Sun, Charleston Mercury, Dallas Weekly Herald, Milwaukee Sentinel, National Intelligencer, New Orleans Times Picayune, New York Herald, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Francisco Bulletin