print culture resources
Here is a selection of resources relevant to nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S.-based periodical history.
VISUALIZING NEW YORK CITY
Accompanying the 2014 Bard Graduate Center Visualizing 19th-Century New York exhibit is this digital publication that offers a spatial interface to the exhibit materials by placing objects, landmarks, and central themes on Matthew Dripps’ Map of the City of New York (1852).
Circulating American Magazines
The Circulating American Magazines Project provides tools to understand and explore the circulation of American periodicals from 1880 to 1972.
The Pulp Magazine Project
The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth century's most influential literary & artistic forms: the all-fiction pulpwood magazine.
american antiquarian Society
Founded in 1812 by Revolutionary War patriot and printer Isaiah Thomas, the American Antiquarian Society is both a learned society and a major independent research library.
Visual Bibliography of Hispanic Periodicals in the United States
This map is an initiative of Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage's US Latino Digital Humanities program at the University of Houston. The information therein is based on the book Hispanic Periodicals in the United States: Origins to 1960 A Brief History and Comprehensive Bibliography by Nicolás Kanellos and Helvetia Martell. The purpose of this visualization is to reveal the written legacy of US Latinos in serial publication form and create awareness of the historical extent to which the Latino community has made their presence in the United States.
Science Fiction at City Tech
Science Fiction at City Tech (hosted on City Tech’s OpenLab Collaborative Learning Platform) connects the individual and collective efforts that study Science Fiction directly or leverage it to enrich City Tech’s students’ experiences, deepen classroom learning with archival research, and connect City Tech to the networks of science fiction research around the world.
Modernist Journals Project
The Modernist Journals Project is a research and teaching resource on the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with a central focus on periodical literature.
Nickel & Dimes
Dime novels were a format of inexpensive popular fiction produced in the United States between 1860 and 1930. Available for as little as a nickel or as much as a dime, they opened up leisure reading for the masses in a way previously not possible.
The Vault at Pfaff's
The mission of The Vault at Pfaff's is to gather and organize both primary and secondary source documents about the bohemians of antebellum New York in ways that will help scholars to determine the impact that the Pfaffians had—either as individuals or as a group—on the literary and artistic culture of the mid-nineteenth-century United States.
Researching Periodicals From the African Diaspora
At the Schomburg Center researchers can find a vast collection of periodicals that document the global Black experience with popular and rare titles published in the U.S. and abroad including publications from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, etc. Many of these titles are available in different languages and formats including print, microfilm and electronically (some of which may be accessed remotely with a valid New York Public Library card offsite).
Interference Archive
The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements. This work manifests in an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, and screenings, all of which encourage critical and creative engagement with the rich history of social movements..
The East Village Other Archives
This site, created by the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute in conjunction with its NYTimes.com community news and information site, The Local East Village, celebrates the history and significance of the often-outrageous East Village Other (1965-72). The website grows out of the research for an exhibition and panel discussion at the Carter Institute. Each weekend, for the eight weeks leading up to the exhibition opening on Feb. 28, 2012, the Local East Village posted essays from EVO’s living and departed greats.
from a secret location
Poetry, little mags, small presses. and transient documents from the mimeo era and beyond.
Just teach one
Just Teach One hopes to provide a modest attempt to address this often frustrating situation. First, with the generous support of the American Antiquarian Society and Common-place, we hope to provide a body of publicly available scholarly transcriptions of early texts, with basic editing and apparatus.