August has worked with U.S. Government documents for more than 30 years. His articles on Government Documents have appeared in a number of publications, and he was the 2007 recipient of the American Library Association’s James Bennett Childs Award “for a lifetime and significant contribution to the field of documents librarianship.” He currently divides his time between Beltsville, Maryland and Paris, France.
In an article in the June 30, 2014, edition of the Washington Post, columnist and editorial page editor Fred Hiatt discusses the harsh denunciation of Boris Pasternak in a 1958 speech. The criticism...
Eva Braun (1912-1945) In his recent review of Heike Görtemaker’s new book Eva Braun: Life with Hitler (New York Review of Books, Vol. 59, No. 7, Apr. 26, 2012), British historian Antony Beevor writes...
LINOTYPE: THE FILM, a new documentary by Doug Wilson, is now being screened across the U.S. The word Etaoin, which looks a bit like a strange name, appears many times in 19th and 20th century...
According to the Boeing Corporation’s history of its Bomarc missile, Source: Boeing.com "...the supersonic Bomarc missiles (IM-99A and IM-99B) were the world's first long-range anti-aircraft missiles...
Libyans Raise the Rebel Flag Khalifa Bilqasim Haftar and Omar al-Hariri, two of the leaders of the reportedly somewhat disorganized military opposition to Col. Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, are not only...
February 27, 1923. Miss Alice Reighly, Anti-Flirt Club president, Washington, D.C. New York Congressman Chris Lee recently was caught not exactly with his pants down but certainly with his shirt off...
Hassan al-Banna Founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, the Muslim Brotherhood these days is more often mentioned in the news than ever before as the current political crisis in Egypt continues...
In his highly regarded 2006 Yale Book of Quotations, Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro gives on page 649 the following source for the phrase “lunatic fringe”: The lunatic fringe was fully in evidence...
What do the following seven people have in common: Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph, Modibo Keita, Shafie Ahmed el-Sheikh, Samora Machel, Agostinho Neto, Sam Nujoma and Nelson...
John Calvert’s forthcoming book Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism (London: Hurst & Co., 2010) was anonymously and seemingly fairly reviewed in The Economist, July 15, 2010. Qutb...
From America's Historical Newspapers When one thinks of Prince Otto von Bismarck, 19th-century Germany’s Iron Chancellor, birthday cakes and greetings do not first come to mind. But they did — at...
[ The Pope’s Stone, Part One discussed the theft and destruction of a block of marble sent by Pope Pius IX in 1853 to be placed in the Washington Monument, under construction on the National Mall in...
From the Serial Set: History of the Washington National Monument and Washington National Monument Society. Compiled by Frederick L. Harvey, Secretary Washington National Monument Society. February 6...
For many years people have probably thought that the following entry from the catalog of the American Antiquarian Society, which describes an item in the Readex digital edition of Early American...
It is almost conventional wisdom to assert that the many, many thousands of private citizens’ petitions and memorials submitted to Congress and printed in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set give us in...
Citing James Constantine Pilling’s bibliography of Algonquian language publications, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) catalog entry in the digital edition of Early American Imprints, Series I...
