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The Nation Digital Archive is now available as a 30 day trial. The trial will run from March 22, 2005, through April 20, 2005. It can be accessed from the Library’s Resources Under Evaluation page at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/collections/evaluation.html.

A description from the Nation:

The Nation, America’s oldest weekly journal of politics and culture, has created a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine’s complete back file, containing over 6,800 Nation issues, nearly 200,000 pages in all.

This compendium of primary source material includes every article, editorial, poem, and cultural review published since Volume I, Number 1 on July 6th, 1865 - from the Civil War through the Millennium. Original illustrations and advertisements are also included.

Users can view high-resolution images of the original magazine pages. In addition, the full text of the entire collection is searchable by word or phrase and allows browsing by index categories as well as advanced full-text searching restricted by date range, author, and subject.

The Nation Digital Archive makes it possible for scholars and other researchers to access this invaluable historical material in ways never before possible. Says Nation publisher and editorial director Victor Navasky, “By making available in a searchable electronic form, materials which in many cases were ignored by the mainstream press at the time of their original publication, we hope to provide a unique window on the events and trends that have shaped the world in which we live.”