Today’s happy news is GALILEO is now compatible with mobile devices. GALILEO has been displaying many mobile-friendly database interfaces for a while, but the main GALILEO portal wasn’t optimized for mobile devices. Over the past few months, the…
On this day in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill making Thanksgiving Day the next-to-last Thursday in November. Prior to the bill, Thanksgiving had always been the last Thursday in November since President Lincoln declared it a…
November is National Native American Heritage Month, "a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions, and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people," according to the National Congress of American Indians.…
Bill Moyers thinks highly of university presses: "My work as a journalist has been richly and continuously informed by the world of ideas offered by university presses over the years. I can't imagine the life of the mind in America today without…
The West Georgia Historic Newspapers Archive, which includes six newspaper titles published in five west Georgia cities (Butler, Carrollton, Dallas, Douglasville, LaGrange) from 1843 to 1942, is now available at…
