New American Cyclopedia

The New American Cyclopedia was a 16-volume encyclopedia created and published by D. Appleton & Company of New York over the years 1857 to 1866.^[1] Its primary editors were George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.^[1]

The New American Cyclopedia was a general encyclopedia with a special focus on subjects related to the United States. As it was created over the years spanning the American Civil War, the focus and tone of articles could change drastically; for example, Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederate States of America, was treated at length as a United States Army soldier and US government politician.^[1]

A notable contributor was Karl Marx, then a European correspondent for the New York Tribune, who, under the suggestion of the editors, submitted articles on military affairs (for which he may have collaborated with Friedrich Engels).^[2] He also wrote a highly unsympathetic biographical article on Simon Bolivar.^[2][3]

The New American Cyclopedia was revised and republished as the American Cyclopedia in 1873.^[4]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Burnham, Charles. "The New American Cyclopedia, 1857-1866: A Time Capsule of the 19th century". AE Database. Americana Exchange. http://www.americanaexchange.com/newae/aemonthly/article.asp?f=2&id=173&page=1&start=0. Retrieved August 18, 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Lindley, Mark (August 18, 2010). "Marx and Engels on Music". MRZine. Monthly Review. http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/lindley180810.html. Retrieved August 18, 2010. 
3. ^ Marx, Karl (between December 1857 and January 8, 1858). "Bolivar y Ponte". marxists.org. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/01/bolivar.htm. Retrieved August 18, 2010.  First published in the New American Cyclopedia, Vol. III, 1858.
4. ^ "The American Cyclopedia 1873". Miller's Paradise Islands (private website). http://chez.mana.pf/~wMviN4ui/americancyclo.html. Retrieved August 18, 2010.  Includes photograph of title page.

External links

The American Cyclopedia (1879)

Volume	From	To
Volume 1	A	Asher
Volume 2	Ashes	Bowle
Volume 3	Bolan Pass	Carmine
Volume 4	Carmona	Coddington
Volume 5	Code	Demotica
Volume 6	Dempster	Everett
Volume 7	Evesham	Glascock
Volume 8	Glasgow	Hortense
Volume 9	Hortensius	Kingslake
Volume 10	Kinglet	Magnet
Volume 11	Magnetism	Motril
Volume 12	Mott	Pales
Volume 13	Palestine	Printing
Volume 14	Prior	Shoe
Volume 15	Shomer	Trollope
Volume 16	Trombone	Zymosis

• Links to digitized volumes of the American Cyclopedia