It took quite a bit longer and quite a bit more work than we had originally expected, but I am pleased to report that the e-book version of Dictatorship of the Air. The e-version appears this month as a new title in the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book project.
The DotA e-book is [...]

Earlier this week the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Research Library announced the expansion of Stalinka, its on-line gallery of pictures and artifacts depicting Josef Stalin.
The searchable collection currently contains over 500 images of the Soviet dictator in photographs, posters, painting, cartoons, sculpture, and the applied arts. Each image is accompanied by a (sometimes very) brief [...]

Like most institutions associated with academia, the academic conference is a curious thing. It’s a combination of educational seminar, professional retreat, class reunion, and subsidized junket. It’s also an integral (and unavoidable) part of being professional scholar.
I attended my first conference as an undergraduate in the spring of 1988. It was a meeting held [...]

As is true of other historical subjects which focus on the material products of human ingenuity, the history of aviation is nearly always written with an eye toward achievements understood to have defined (or best represented) a particular period or era. No art historian, for example, would consider a survey of Western art complete without [...]