The New Harpers.org

Welcome to the New Harpers.org

Inside the site: over a quarter-million scans from 157 years, thousands of interlinked topic pages, and an array of unique web-only content. Full access comes with your subscription to the print magazine—$16.97 a year.

On the home page: Scott Horton joins Ken Silverstein's Washington Babylon with No Comment. Previously available only via email, No Comment has long been an invaluable source of news analysis and commentary for thousands of people. We're proud to bring it to the Harper's Magazine website.

Institutional Access

Institutions wanting IP or password-based access to Harpers.org should contact Joe Collins at Opinion Archives.

Institutions willing to part with old volumes of Harper's Magazine in exchange for reduced-cost institutional access should also contact Associate Editor Paul Ford.

Blogging Harper's (or Not)

Linking. This site was built first as a service for our subscribers. In the future we will look for a solution for bloggers wishing to link to older Harper's content. For now, we'll continue to publish to the web such free content as Washington Babylon, the Harper's Index, the Weekly Review, and full-text selections from the magazine.

Copyright. Copyright law is deeply flawed and can be criminally abused, but we count on it to survive. We support fair use and encourage you to liberally quote passages of a few paragraphs (and please link when you do so). But please don't post our PDFs, page images, or full text articles to other sites.

Launch Issues

Some links to our site may be broken. We'll fix all such broken links in the coming two weeks. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The site has been tested in several browsers but not with the thoroughness that many thousands of visitors will bring to the task. We'd appreciate hearing about usability flaws, CSS problems, and other issues. Similarly, we'd like to hear about any misaligned page scans in the archive, or pages where the content does not match up with the title/link.

Acknowledgements

Cornell University Library/Making of America participated in a unique trade, granting us permission to use their scans of the first 49 years of Harper's. Oceana Wilson of Bennington College arranged for Harper's to receive an entire run of the magazine for scanning. Without the help and patience of these two institutions this project would have been very difficult to complete.

Kenji Morrow wrote high-quality computer code to manage subscriber accounts, and Maureen Flaherty scanned thousands of images by hand and performed quality assurance on the archive. This site could not have been finished without their extremely hard work against difficult deadlines.

Flaws in information architecture, scan quality, page alignment, search, taxonomy structure, Java/XSLT/HTML/CSS code, and so forth are purely the responsibility of Associate Editor Paul Ford, to whom you may direct your comments and criticism regarding the site.

Enjoy!