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The article reviews the book "Narcotics Anonymous Chronology: Volume 1. 1892–1976" by C.K. Budnick, H.B. Pickard and William L. White.

Reviews the book `The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I, Called to Serve: January 1929-June 1951,' edited by Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, and Penny A. Russell.

The article presents information on various developments related to labor management. The Ohio Historical Society's manuscripts department has completed the microfilm edition of the William Green Papers. Papers, available on twenty-one rolls of microfilm, date from 1891 to 1952 and consist of correspondence and memoranda, biographical and membership material, a diary, expense reports, speeches and statements, and subject files. The Labor-Management State School of Industrial and recently acquired the Records America. The West Virginia and Regional History Collection reports that the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds' archives are now open to research. Records, which cover the years 1946-1974, are for the first industry-wide pension and medical care plan in the United States. The Sound Records Department of the Imperial War Museum has a large collection of oral history recordings made since 1972. This material deals not only with service in the armed forces, but also with conscientious objectors, British involvement in the Spanish Civil War, and war artists.

This paper concerns Black women poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Considered by modern critics to have adopted anachronistic subject matter and to be out of step with the militant race-consciousness of the period, these poets have been largely neglected in discussions of the 1920's, despite the fact that this was the most significant flowering of Black women's writing until the 1960's. I provide an interpretive model that reveals the rebellious messages in this verse, one that helps explain the poets' imaginative choices by placing them in their historical context and liking them to a female poetic tradition. This approach makes clear the affirming nature of Renaissance poetry by women and makes it accessible to us today, anticipating as it does contemporary issues and forging a modern sensibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews several books about United States President Andrew Johnson. `The Papers of Andrew Johnson,' edited by Paul H. Bergeron, `Andrew Johnson and the Negro,' by David Warren Bowen, `The Presidency of Andrew Johnson,' by Albert Castel, `Andrew Johnson and the Uses of Constitutional Power,' by James E. Sefton and `Andrew Johnson: A Biography,' by Hans L. Trefousse.

A review of the book "Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America," by Kati Marton, is presented.