The New American Cyclopædia was an encyclopedia created and published by D. Appleton & Company of New York in 16 volumes, which initially appeared between 1858 and 1863. Its primary editors were George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana.
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The New American Cyclopædia was revised and republished as the American Cyclopædia in 1873.[1]
Overview
editThe New American Cyclopædia 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 in pre-war editions.[2]
As was traditional, the entire set was re-issued with the publication in 1863 of the 16th volume. The whole Cyclopædia was again re-issued in 1864.
Contributors
editA notable contributor was Karl Marx, then a European correspondent for the New York Tribune, who, appeared as the writer, while most of those articles were written by Friedrich Engels, especially the articles on military affairs,[3] which belonged in Engels' domain in the division of labor between the two friends. Because of his deep knowledge of all things military, Engels had earned the nickname "General".[3] Marx wrote a highly unsympathetic biographical article on Simon Bolivar.[3][4]
Other prominent contributors to the first edition included[5]
- Charles Allen
- Samuel G. Arnold
- Alexander Dallas Bache
- William Bross
- George Bancroft
- Benjamin Fordyce Barker
- John R. Bartlett
- Gunning S. Bedford
- Jeremiah S. Black
- George S. Blake
- Lorin Blodget
- Edmund Blunt
- Dion Boucicault
- Orestes Brownson
- B. Gratz Brown
- Rev. George Bush
- Charles P. Daly
- Charles Anderson Dana
- James D. Dana
- Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Charles H. Davis
- Adolph Douai
- John William Draper
- Lyman C. Draper
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Edward Everett
- Horace Greeley
- George Washington Greene
- Joseph Henry
- Henry W. Herbert
- Rev. Thomas Hill
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- James Russell Lowell
- Charles Nordhoff
- Henry Steel Olcott
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Theophilus Parsons
- Rafael Pombo
- Hermann Raster
- William H. Seward
- Charles Sprague
- Henry B. Stanton
- Miss Rose Terry
- Rev. Thomas Thayer
- Alexander Thayer
- William Sydney Thayer
- John Reuben Thompson
- Richard Grant White
- Sidney Willard
- E. L. Youmans
Annual yearbook
editAn associated yearbook, Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year, was published from 1861 to 1875 and on to 1902.[6]
Publication history
editThe cyclopaedia was revived under the title American Cyclopædia in 1873–6. A final edition was issued in 1883–4, which added supplements to each volume of the 1873 edition. Two analytical indexes were published separately in 1878 and 1884.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "The American Cyclopaedia 1873". Miller's Paradise Islands (private website). Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2010. Includes photograph of title page.
- ^ Carl Burnham (July 2004). "The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866: A Time Capsule of the 19th century". Rare Book Monthly. Archived from the original on 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
- ^ a b c Lindley, Mark (August 18, 2010). "Marx and Engels on Music". MRZine. Monthly Review. Archived from the original on September 3, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
- ^ Marx, Karl (January 1858). "Bolivar y Ponte". marxists.org. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2010. First published in the New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 3, 1858.
- ^ The American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge. New York D. Appleton 2nd. ed. 1873 pp.xii-xvi
- ^ Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. i.
- ^ Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York : Bowker, pp.2-3, 110
Further reading
edit- Carl Burnham (July 2004). "The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866: A Time Capsule of the 19th century". Rare Book Monthly. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
External links
edit- Links to digitized volumes of the American Cyclopædia
- George Ripley; Charles A. Dana, eds. (1879). The American Cyclopaedia (2nd ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company.
Volume | From | To |
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Volume 1 | A | Asher |
Volume 2 | Ashes | Bol |
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 |