The History Librarian

Ethan Persoff has digitized a comic book created by George Wallace for his run for governor in 1962. This is a very interesting piece of campaign literature and a great bit of history.

[link from BoingBoing]

Now online, courtesy of the Library of Congress Rare Book & Special Collections Division, is the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson; Compiled with Annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby. Washington, D. C., The Library of Congress, 1952-59. (5 volumes). This is a great bibliographical tool and kind of fun, too. Also of note, digitized books from Jefferson’s library: A Summary View of the Rights of British America and History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. Be sure to check out some of the other digitized material while you’re there (like H.P. Kraus’s pictorial bibliography of Sir Francis Drake).

[Jefferson Catalogue link from PhiloBiblos]

As noted over at Cliopatria, the eminent historian of the Holocaust Raul Hilberg died recently. Here’s the press release from the University of Vermont (where Hilberg was Professor Emeritus), the Times of London obit, and also an obituary by Gustav Seibt from Signandsight. Hilberg is best known for his work The Destruction of European Jews, but take a look also at Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders and The Politics of Memory:The Journey of a Holocaust Historian.