[Cross-posted from The Russian Front]
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: It’s amazing what one can find on the Internet.
In the summer of 2005, the city of Moscow played host to a photographic exhibit honoring the 60th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War. Titled, “1418 Days,” the exhibit drew upon a collection of [...]

[Cross-posted from The Russian Front]
About this time last year, The Journal of the Historical Society published an essay of mine devoted to recent trends in the field of Russian history. Although the article (”Scholarship at the Crossroads: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of Russian History in America”) was commissioned by the Journal’s editor, George [...]

For eight days in late August 1909, the city of Reims, France played host to Le Grande Semaine d’Aviation de la Champagne one of the first and most successful air shows of the new age of flight. The Reims Air Show riveted European attention on the airplane, awakened the public to the reality of flight, [...]

In July 1989 historian and Auburn University professor James R. Hansen published an article that quickly became an instant classic for historians of technology and, more specifically, historians of aviation. Titled, “Aviation History in the Wider View” and appearing in the leading scholarly journal Technology and Culture, Hansen’s article served as a much-needed critique of [...]

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 [...]