HarpWeek

About HarpWeek: The web version of Harper's Weekly covers the 18,500 pages of the magazine published during the Civil War era and Reconstruction. Harper's Weekly provided detailed information and insights on political, military and social issues and events prior to and during the Civil War and through the years of Reconstruction. The newspaper illustrations, which featured Winlsow Homer, Thomas Nast and Mathew Brady, were its readers primary source for visualizing personalities and current events; its editorials explored the positions and subtleties of timely topics and were a major force in shaping public opinion in the North; its 1,000-plus pieces of military and home front prose, along with its 18,000 indexed ads, help make the events, people and popular culture of that time readily understandable and accessible to students, and researchers.

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Years of Coverage: 1857-1912  

Number of Simultaneous Users Allowed: Unlimited

Access Restrictions: Gettysburg College Access. Students, faculty and staff with a Gettysburg College Microsoft Outlook email account may access from off-campus. See the off-campus access instruction page.

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