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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.

The New American Cyclopædia was revised and republished as the American Cyclopædia in 1873.

Overview

The 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.

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

A 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, 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". Marx wrote a highly unsympathetic biographical article on Simon Bolivar.

Other prominent contributors to the first edition included

• 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

An associated yearbook, Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year, was published from 1861 to 1875 and on to 1902.

Publication history

The 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.

See also

• Lists of encyclopedias

References

1. "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.
2. 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.
3. ^ 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.
4. 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.
5. The American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge. New York D. Appleton 2nd. ed. 1873 pp.xii-xvi
6. Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863. p. i.
7. Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York : Bowker, pp.2-3, 110

Further reading

• 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

• 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.

• English-language encyclopedias
• American encyclopedias
• D. Appleton & Company books
• 19th-century encyclopedias
• 1857 books