They’re here!
A few days ago my author’s advance copies of DotA arrived via FedEx from Cambridge University Press. After cracking open the box and peeling away the cellophane, I decided to head out of town to make a few deliveries to friends and family. As I’m still on the road, I’ve decided to postpone […]

Contemporary Periodicals
For historians and researchers interested in documenting popular attitudes towards aviation and aeronautics there are few sources more valuable than periodicals. In addition to providing useful “first-hand” narratives of then current events, materials drawn from newspapers, journals, and magazines are critical resources for revealing the issues and attitudes that shaped contemporaries’ views about aviation […]

“Inventories”
It is almost impossible for aviation historians and history buffs to find themselves at a loss for something to read. The number of books, magazines, journals, encyclopedias, and illustrated guides devoted to aircraft is impossibly immense. And each year hundreds more articles and books are added to the mountain of existing works. The overwhelming majority […]

The genesis of Dictatorship of the Air was the product of an innocent but unexpected question that I was asked by Russian friends in the spring of 1995.
At that time, during one of my first archival trips to Moscow, I was invited to present an academic paper on “The Influence of Charles Lindbergh on American […]