Pan American Airlines was the major international airline for much of the 20^thcentury, the United State’s unofficial national airline, and responsible for many of the innovations in air travel that are still with us today. Following bankruptcy in 1991, University of Miami acquired its archives and, thanks to a grant from National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC), has now been able to digitize all Pan Am’s printed materials as Pan Am Periodicals.

This archive covers the airline’s inception in the 1920s to its collapse in the 1990s, spanning a period of vast technological, social and cultural change. Periodicals could range from the chronologically specific, such as the Africa Newsletter published in 1942, to the chronologically broad, such as the Annual Reports which ran from 1939 to 1989. Inevitably, there is also a huge geographical sweep, from London based in-flight magazines, to reports covering the divisional breakdowns of Latin America, Pacific Alaska, and Atlantic. As such, this archive has much to offer anyone wishing to explore the 20^thcentury from the perspective of a global American corporation.