Milestone Documents Blog now live
As I have previously noted in this space, we are at work on a companion Web site for our “Milestone Documents” series, www.MilestoneDocuments.com. While that site is still under construction, I’m pleased today to announce that one component of the site has gone live: the Milestone Documents blog. This group blog brings together several dozen historians who have contributed to our encyclopedias. Our aim, as you might expect, is to create a vibrant discussion space related to primary source documents–their role in understanding history, their connection to current events, their relation to notable people from history, their use in the classroom, and so on. All of us here at Schlager Group are excited about this new blog and are anxious to see how the blog develops over time. I hope you’ll bookmark the site and/or subscribe to the blog feed (http://blog.milestonedocuments.com/feed/).
The first posts at the site include a discussion of the Northwest Ordinance and a commentary on censorship and the publishing industry, which of course involves the First Amendment. You’ll also see that we have added a “Doc of the Day” feature that functions essentially as a “This Day in History” concept; on occasion, we’ll note the anniversary dates of important primary documents from the past.
I’m off to Anaheim this weekend for the American Library Association Annual Convention. I will probably not be blogging, however. In the meantime, however, I hope you’ll check out the new blog site.