New American Cyclopædia

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.{{Cite web| last = Carl Burnham| title = The New American Cyclopedia, 1857 – 1866: A Time Capsule of the 19th century| work = Rare Book Monthly| access-date = 2018-01-28| date = July 2004| url = http://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/173?id=173| archive-date = 2020-07-23| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200723033503/https://www.rarebookhub.com/articles/173?id=173| url-status = live}}

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.

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[https://archive.org/details/americancyclopae01ripluoft/page/n17 The American cyclopaedia: a popular dictionary of general knowledge.] New York D. Appleton 2nd. ed. 1873 pp.xii-xvi

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• 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

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An associated yearbook, Appletons' Annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year, was published from 1861 to 1875 and on to 1902.{{cite book|title=Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862|year=1863|publisher=D. Appleton & Company|location=New York|page=i|url=https://archive.org/stream/1862appletonsan02newyuoft#page/n3/mode/2up}}

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.Walsh, S. Padraig, 1922- Anglo-American general encyclopedias: a historical bibliography, 1703-1967 New York : Bowker, pp.2-3, 110

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|url = http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/01/bolivar.htm

|title = Bolivar y Ponte

|date = January 1858

|first = Karl

|last = Marx

|author-link = Karl Marx

|publisher = marxists.org

|access-date = August 18, 2010

|archive-date = June 28, 2011

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110628200921/http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/01/bolivar.htm

|url-status = live

}} First published in the New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. 3, 1858.

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| url = http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/lindley180810.html

| title = Marx and Engels on Music

| date = August 18, 2010

| first = Mark

| last = Lindley

| work = MRZine

| publisher = Monthly Review

| access-date = August 18, 2010

| archive-url = https://archive.today/20120903200231/http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/lindley180810.html

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