Welcome

Portage Publications publishes documents of historical, religious, philosophical, and cultural importance. In river navigation, “portage” is to carry one’s vessel by land around obstacles in a river, allowing the vessel to continue to safely continue its journey. Portage Publications’ mission is to find and preserve the best of the past, and to carry it to the modern reader.

Portage proudly subscribes to the ideals of freedom that at one time shone most brightly in America. A major thrust of our work is to publish documents that support these ideals. However, some documents that we publish, when considered by themselves, may not promote these same ideals. They may be important precisely because they are a contrast, a clash of ideas.

Portage primarily publishes documents that are old enough to be in the public domain. Our focus is on preserving documents that might otherwise cease to exist as the physical media that they are currently stored on (i.e. books) physically deteriorate.

Portage makes most of its products available as PDF and/or EPUB downloads, as well as in printed form. The electronic files provide research tools such as linking and indexing. If we are aware that a document is in print by another publisher, we also provide that information to the user.

Portage is constantly looking for new material to publish. If there is a document that you would like to see preserved and published, please contact us so that we can consider it for future publication.