Harper’s Magazine Online

Harper’s Magazine Online is a highly ambitious and most worthy project that seeks to provide “electronic access to every page of the full run of Harper’s Magazine from 1850 to the present”. Included are articles on cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs, as well as fiction, social commentary, investigative journalism, poetry, and visual images by a stunning array of important writers, artists and illustrators. The files from this monthly magazine are viewable in their original printed format as clickable Web pages (full text format) or as downloadable PDF documents.

The sheer size of this undertaking, however, is such that...