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Reviews the efforts of the Martin Luther King Jr., Papers Project to prepare a definitive, multivolume edition of King's papers as part of a long-term effort to preserve the historical legacy of the African-American freedom struggle. The initial two volumes of `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.'; Historical and intellectual context in which King's Crozer and Boston University academic papers were created; Selective use of appropriated passages; Citation and attribution practices; Details.

Focuses on several references by physician Edwin A. Weinstein regarding alleged strokes suffered by former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson which were published in the book "Papers of Woodrow Wilson." Medical analysis of Robert T. Monroe, an internist and gerontologist, on the medical interpretation of Weinstein on Wilson's alleged strokes in May 1896 and May 1906; Number of references to Wilson's alleged strokes which were contained in the book; Opinion of several physicians that Weinstein's diagnoses are not consistent with a stroke; Criticism on the lack of objectivity in Weinstein's diagnoses.

Reviews the Web site Thomas A. Edison Papers from the State University of New Jersey in Piscataway.

The article focuses on Black domestic workers in Southern American white spaces during the Great Depression. The author examines undergraduate essays composed between 1928 and 1940 for sociology courses at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, that reported the white female student's observations of Black household workers.

Focuses on the microforms `The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945.'

Focuses on the efforts of women during the Progressive Era to mobilize social and political power through their organizations. Discussion on the social networks and organizations formed by women during the period to solve social problems; Importance of women in the administration of the U.S. Sanitary Commission's policies throughout the old Northwest Territory; Ability of women to speak for the national welfare.

Presents a list of books on politics in the U.S. "Latinos in the United States: The Sacred and the Political," by David T. Abalos.; "Rocky Mountain Constitution Making, 1830-1912," by Gordon Morris Bakken; "The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America," by E. Digby Baltzell.

Provides information on a number of books about the U.S. and the biographies of people who made a difference in the country. "The Promise of American History: Progress and Prospects," edited by Stanley I. Kutler and Stanley N. Katz; "A Concise History of the American Republic," 2nd ed., by Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenburg; "The American Nation," 5th ed., by John A. Garraty; "Pilgrim: A Biography of William Brewster," by Mary E. Sherwood.

Presents news briefs on events concerning historians in the U.S. as of 1983. Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Los Angeles, California; Requirements of the Pelzer Award Committee for the essays to be submitted for the Louis Pelzer Award competition; Information on the accessions, openings and declassifications in the U.S. National Archives and Records Service.

Comments on an essay by scholar Jonathan M. Wiener on the history of radical historians in the U.S. Corrections on the essay; View on Wiener's characterization in the essay.

Looks at manuscript repositories with materials on the civil rights movement in the U.S. Major categories of civil rights resources; List of university libraries and historical societies that have acquired civil rights manuscripts; Importance of civil rights manuscript sources.

Presents updates on library and archival materials acquired by libraries and other agencies in the U.S. as of December 1983. Development of an archive of slide reproductions of photographs by the Slide Archive of Historical Medical Photographs at the Health Sciences Library of the State University of New York in Stony Brook; Availability of the Jabez Bunting Watkins collection at the Kansas Collection of the University of Kansas Libraries; Records that were accessioned by the Division of Archives and Manuscripts of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.

Presents updates on events and issues in the U.S. as of 2004. Information on the "Journal of American History"; Award won by Mark Peel of John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland for his essay "On the Margins: Lodgers and Borders in Boston, 1860-1900; Papers acquired by the Historic New Orleans Collection.

Reviews several microfilms. "American Legal Manuscripts From the Harvard Law School Library. The Felix Frankfurter Papers. Part I: Supreme Court of the United States Case Files of Opinions and Memoranda October Terms, 1938-1952"; "American Legal Manuscripts From the Harvard Law School Library. The Felix Frankfurter Papers. Part II: Supreme Court of the United States Case Files of Opinions and Memoranda October Terms, 1953-1961"; "American Legal Manuscripts From the Harvard Law School Library. The Felix Frankfurter Papers. Part III: Correspondence and Related Material."

Introduces two articles which deals with archives and manuscripts in the U.S.

Focuses on teaching the legal history seminar at Davidson College in North Carolina. Cases from North Carolina's legal history which were taken up in the seminar; Discussion on the writing efforts for the group paper of the students; Information on the research component of the seminar.

Features Benjamin Tappan, an Ohio politician and former United States senator. Description of the relationship of Tappan with his brother Lewis; Views of Tappan on the negative implications of slavery in society; Historical background on the association of Tappan with the Democratic party of the country; Family and educational background of Tappan.

Presents updates on issues related to libraries and archives in the U.S. as of January 2005. Information on the content of the papers received by the University of Virginia Library from educator and book critic Doris Grumbach; List of manuscript collection that the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond has accessioned; Announcement of the availability of the two-volume record series "Record of Returns from Towns and Payments to Soldiers and Families during the Civil War."

Questions the historical and biographical significance of the papers Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote as a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary and as a doctoral student at Boston University. Instances of plagiarism; Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Projects; Evidence of King's effort to construct an identity as a theologian and preacher; Desire to stress social and political implications of theological training.

Announces that a number of the original court records known as the Alcalde Records have been acquired by the National History Museum of Los Angeles County. Availability of the papers of several of Herbert Hoover's principal associates; Papers received by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library; Research collection acquired by the Georgetown University Library.

Discusses the history and available resources about nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Scope of the services provided by nonprofit organizations; Sources for the history of nonprofit organizations and of the nonprofit sector in general; Background on nonprofit social service organizations during the first four-fifths of the nineteenth century; Nonprofit activity of charity organization societies.

Discusses the public information strategy implemented by former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the role of mass media during the World War II from 1940 to 1941. Objective of the strategy; Cooperative efforts of mass media to support the propaganda of the government; Factor that prompted Roosevelt to launch an administration filmmaking venture, which produced the motion picture "The River"; Information on a code of conduct adopted by the National Association of Broadcasters in July 1939.

The article discusses the social and legal standing of textiles and clothing during the antebellum period between the Revolutionary and Civil War in the U.S. The author points out that even slaves and married women, as group who had limited legal rights, had the rights to own their own clothing. Topics include the cost and availability of cloth and clothing, cases of infanticide, escaped slaves and their clothing, and the story of slave James whose fancy striped pantaloons were stolen and recovered after being recognized.

This article discusses the economic interpretation of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. Federalists believed the lower houses of the legislatures damaged the economy by caving in to taxpayers' and debtors' demands for release from their legal obligations. Relief legislation was claimed unjust to both government bondholders and to private creditors. For the Federalists, the abolition of relief was one of the most attractive features of the proposed Constitution. Opponents of the Constitution say that the federal convention that met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 paved the way for economic revival by creating a new government that was more responsible than its state-level counterparts. According to Americans, the state-level fiscal and monetary policies were not too lenient but harsh.

Examines the history of the African American Church based on the book "The History of Negro Church," by Carter G. Woodson. Features of the book; Analysis of the religious history of the U.S.; Problem regarding the location of manuscript and archival sources for the history of African American churches.

Discusses the role of churches in the U.S. in the passage of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964. Efforts by the National Council of Churches (NCC), an advocate of social gospel, to support the CRA; Information on a conference on religion and race convened by faith communities in Chicago, Illinois in 1963; Factor behind the establishment of the new Commission on Religion and Race of the NCC.

Presents updates related to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) as of 1984. Recipient of the Louis Pelzer Memorial Award for 1983; Job vacancies at the "The Journal of American History" publication; Details of a survey on OAH members released by Lewis Perry at the business meeting of the OAH in Los Angeles, California on April 6, 1984.

The article discusses U.S. unemployment policy during the Interwar Period of the early 1920s, including the role that the U.S. government played in offering services to the unemployed and the paternalist aspects of the policy. The role that U.S. Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover played in developing U.S. welfare policy for the unemployed is discussed. The former U.S. colonel Arthur Woods' involvement in the 1921 President’s Conference on Unemployment is also discussed.

The article discusses the relation of the Supplementary Security Income (SSI) welfare program in the U.S. to HIV infection in the U.S. during the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Topics include the treatment of people with AIDS (PWA) in relation to Medicaid and healthcare access, the social impact of the definition of AIDS by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the definition of disability by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA). Social conditions of poor people, LGBT people, and minorities are noted.

Discusses corruption during the late 18th century in the U.S. History of corruption; Components of Gilded Age financial corruption; Background on railroad politics.

Talks about teaching the History 443 course at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Information on the student presentations of their class syllabus; Description of the components of the students' final papers; Project which sent the students into the schools of West Philadelphia.

Deals with rural insurgency in Pennsylvania in 1787. Overview of the scarcity of money and credit in the state; Details on several provisions of its constitution.

Discusses ethnicity and the history wars in the United States (US) during the 1920s. Two alternative pathways sketched by philosopher Horace M. Kallen on the future of the US in his 1924 essay; Textbooks on history banned by the New Jersey legislature; Organizations which supported the textbook bill; Ethnic attacks on textbooks.

Presents a list of books on the history of the U.S. "A History of American City Government: The Emergence of the Metropolis, 1920-1945," by Charles R. Adrian; "Thinking About America: The United States in the 1990," edited by Annelise Anderson and Dennis L. Bark; "The Men and the Mills: A History of the Southern Textile Industry," by Mildred Gwin Andrews.

The article discusses American newspaper advertisements within woman's pages developed for women consumers from 1895 through 1935. An overview of the U.S. newspaper publishers' efforts to gain access to women's private spaces in American homes, including their efforts to gain access to the American family, is provided.