{"id":623,"date":"2016-01-18T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=623"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:41:17","slug":"fighting-words-digital-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/fighting-words-digital-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fighting Words&#8221; digital exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame\u2019s Rare Books and Special Collections is home to perhaps the strongest institutional <a href=\"http:\/\/rarebooks.library.nd.edu\/collections\/sports\/boxing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collection of boxing-related books and periodicals<\/a> in the United States. A selection of these wonderful materials may now be experienced virtually, via the digital exhibit <em><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu\/9e62b046bc\/fighting-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fighting Words: English and American Boxing Literature from the Joyce Sports Collection<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital-exhibits.library.nd.edu\/9e62b046bc\/fighting-words\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-747 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/02\/screen-capture-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2016\/02\/screen-capture.jpg 1828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Modern prizefighting is of English origin, and had developed a distinctive culture with a rich and abundant literature by the turn of the nineteenth century. <em>Fighting Words<\/em> includes many scarce items from this so-called golden age of English pugilism (ca. 1790-1830). It then carries the story forward to the United States, which by the second half of the 19th century had become the fight game\u2019s new center of gravity. Publishers like Richard Kyle Fox <em>(The National Police Gazette)<\/em> and Nathaniel \u201cNat\u201d Fleischer <em>(The Ring)<\/em> were central to prizefighting\u2019s emergence from illegality into the American sporting mainstream.\u00a0The exhibit concludes with materials from the 1950s, hearkening the erosion of U.S. boxing culture in the second half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>Questions and comments should be directed to George Rugg, the Joyce Collection\u2019s curator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notre Dame\u2019s Rare Books and Special Collections is home to perhaps the strongest institutional collection of boxing-related books and periodicals in the United States. A selection of these wonderful materials may now be experienced virtually, via the digital exhibit Fighting Words: English and American Boxing Literature from the Joyce Sports Collection. Modern prizefighting is of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/fighting-words-digital-exhibit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Fighting Words&#8221; digital exhibit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75050,75063],"tags":[77938,12698,24,156,77929],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-sports-research","tag-book","tag-boxing","tag-digital","tag-news","tag-periodicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}