Our new World History reference set - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:56:30 +0000
I’m pleased to announce the publication today of Milestone Documents in World History, the latest installment in our Milestone Documents series of reference sets. This 4-volume, 1,900-page set covers 125 essential primary documents from ancient history to the present. As with all of our Milestone Documents sets, the entries here combine the full text of [...] Read more.
Lower prices on our iPhone apps - Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:27:21 +0000
I’m happy to announce that we have lowered the prices for most of our iPhone and iPod Touch applications. Our Lincoln and Obama apps are now just $.99, and our Presidential Speeches–Pro app is now only $4.99, an incredible bargain for an app that includes 90 famous presidential speeches in history PLUS our award-winning document [...] Read more.
Formal Friday at Schlager Group - Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:01:21 +0000
Last week several of us were lamenting how we never dress up any more; our office dress is always casual, since we don’t receive customers and rarely meet clients or partners. And then it came to us: why not institute a formal day at the office? Thus was born Formal Friday at Schlager Group. I [...] Read more.
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Coming soon: The new MilestoneDocuments.com - Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:52:50 +0000
Readers will note that postings to this blog have ceased as we prepare to roll out version 2.0 of MilestoneDocuments.com later this fall. This blog will be folded into the new main site, so readers will be able to see posts from our team of experts, reports about documents in the news, articles about primary [...] Read more.
Doc of the Day: Executive Order 8802 - Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:16:27 +0000
On June 25, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802. The order banned discrimination against racial and ethnic minorities in the government and defense industries. The order resulted in part from pressure placed on Roosevelt by the African American labor leader A. Philip Randolph. Earlier in 1941 Randolph had announced plans for a [...] Read more.
Ron Briley on the Weather Manifesto - Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:29:19 +0000
Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to be employed in a factional dispute with the Maoist Progressive Labor (PL) wing of the organization. At the June 1969 Chicago convention of SDS, the RYM group, now known as the Weathermen, expelled the [...] Read more.
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