In February 1859, the editors of Harper’s Weekly published the following ad on their front page: The proprietors of Harper’s Weekly beg to state that the regular edition of the …
Literacy Rates
A professor outside of my department asked me at a mixer last week what literacy rates were in the United States at the time of Harper’s Weekly. I responded quickly …
Harper’s Weekly Circulation
Circulation figures for magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth-century US are both difficult to find and notoriously unreliable. It can be frustrating to not be able to find what we …