In addition, it was the leading illustrated and literary periodical of its time. Harpers Weekly hired the best authors, artists, and cartoonists, as well as reporters, to provide daily frontline coverage of the Civil War. At its peak, circulation exceeded 100,000, and its readership probably exceeded half a million people. Users can also basically browse through electronic issues of Harper's Weekly from cover to cover with HarpWeek. Illustrations and ads, as well as articles and essays, can be searched and displayed.
Users can also search by literary genre, date, and occupation.
The HarpWeek index will be updated periodically to reflect new information. Scholarship to report any corrections or commentary. Literature Online contains more than 210,000 texts of poems, plays, and novels in fully searchable SGML format. It provides hypertext links to approximately 15,000 more literary texts on free web sites throughout the Internet and reports on the content and nature of each site indexed. It contains dictionaries and well-known reference works and bibliographies in the field of English and American literature, including works not previously available electronically.