American Leaders, Finkelman at Harvard, and Truman
Hello again after a long absence. We’re in the final stages of production on Milestone Documents of American Leaders, so it’s been a challenge to lift my head up to think about blogging. The launch of a new publication is always exciting, and this time is no different. Our distribution partner, Salem Press, is readying a direct-mail piece about the title, advertisements will be appearing in upcoming issues of Library Journal and Booklist, and Ingram (a wholesaler) has selected MDAL as of its upcoming “Reference Premier Picks.” And later this month, managing editor Andrea Betts and I will be at the Texas Library Association annual conference giving out free Black History Month posters to all attendees. If you plan to attend TLA, please stop by the Salem Press booth to get your free poster!
The editor in chief of MDAL, Paul Finkelman, has some exciting news to share: next week he’ll be giving the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. His topic is “The Supreme Court and the Peculiar Institution: Marshall, Story, Taney, and the Defense of Slavery.” The 3 Supreme Court justices named in the title–John Marshall, Joseph Story, and Roger Taney–are of course featured in MDAL.
Meanwhile, our Doc of the Day over at the Milestone Documents Blog today is the Truman Doctrine. As it happens, I just started reading David McCullough’s Truman. I’m only 50 pages in, which means that I have a mere 950 to go! Luckily, McCullough is a writer of uncommon grace and intelligence, so the read will be an enjoyable one.