HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JFK!

Dherbier, Yann-Brice & Pierre-Henri Verlhac. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: a Life in Pictures. New York: Phaidon, 2003.

Today is JFK's birthday (born 29 May 1917). Had he survived his presidency and lived a long life (not likely, given his numerous health problems), he would be 97 years old today.

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THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863. Contrary to popular opinion, it did not free all the slaves then held in the United States. It in fact only freed the slaves in those states then in rebellion against the United States. It did not apply to slave states that had remained loyal to the Union, or to any area controlled by the Union Army on 1 January 1863.

Lincoln had previously issued a Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on 22 September 1862. This proclamation gave slave states a chance to end the rebellion and keep their slaves, for the Proclamation of 1 January 1863 would only apply to states still in a state of rebellion. None of the rebelling states took advantage of this opportunity.

Wikipedia article on the Emancipation Proclamation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation

LOCATION CODES

CE—Central Express
HG—History and Geography Room (Central Library)
SS—Social Sciences Room (Central Library
ST—Stacks (Central Library)
BA—Baden Branch
BU—Buder Branch
CB--Cabanne Branch
CP—Carpenter Branch
DA—Julia Davis Branch
SC—Schlafly Branch
WA—Walnut Park Branch

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Title: 100 years of emancipation, essays by Harry V. Jaffa [and others].
Author/Compiler: Goldwin, Robert A., and Jaffa, Harry V.
Local Call Number: 326 [SS]
Publication Date: 1964.
Format: Books.

Title: Abraham Lincoln and the road to emancipation, 1861-1865.
Author: Klingaman, William K.
Local Call Number: 973.7092 [MA]
Publication Date: 2001.
Format: Books.

Title: Act of justice : Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the law of war.
Author: Carnahan, Burrus M.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [HG]
Publication Date: 2007.
Format: Books.

Title: Colonization after emancipation: Lincoln and the movement for Black resettlement.
Author: Magness, Phillip W. Page, Sebastian N.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [HG]
Publication Date: 2011.
Format: Books.

Title: Emancipating Lincoln: the proclamation in text, context, and memory.
Author: Holzer, Harold.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [CE; HG; SC]
Publication Date: 2012.
Format: Books.

Title: The Emancipation proclamation.
Author: Franklin, John Hope.
Local Call Number: 973.7 [SC]
Publication Date: 1995.
Format: Books.

Title: The Emancipation Proclamation: three views (social, political, iconographic); with a foreword by John Hope Franklin.
Series: Conflicting worlds.
Author/Compiler: Holzer, Harold. Medford, Edna Greene. Williams, Frank J.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [ST; BU; DA; SC]
Publication Date: 2006.
Format: Books.

Title: Final freedom: the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment.
Series: Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
Author: Vorenberg, Michael.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [ST; CB; DA]
Publication Date: 2001.
Format: Books.

Title: Freedom national : the destruction of slavery in the United States, 1861-1865.
Author: Oakes, James.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [HG; BU; DA; SC; WA]
Publication Date: 2013.
Format: Books.

Title: Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation : the end of slavery in America.
Author: Guelzo, Allen C.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [ST; DA]
Publication Date: 2004.
Format: Books.

Title: Lincoln's hundred days : the Emancipation Proclamation and the war for the union.
Author: Masur, Louis P.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [HG; SC]
Publication Date: 2012.
Format: Books.

Title: The long road to Antietam : how the Civil War became a revolution.
Author: Slotkin, Richard.
Local Call Number: 973.7336 [HG; BU; CP; SC]
Publication Date: 2012.
Format: Books.

Title: O freedom! Afro-American Emancipation celebrations.
Author: Wiggins, William H.
Local Call Number: 973.714 [DA]
Publication Date: 1987.
Format: Books.

THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS

INTRODUCTION

The Cuban missile crisis was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other. It is widely believed to be the occasion when the Cold War nearly morphed into a full-scale nuclear conflict.

Cuban Missile Crisis—Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis

ABBREVIATIONS

BU—Buder Branch
CP—Carpenter Branch
DA—Julia Davis Branch
HG—History, Geography, and Travel (Central Library)
MA—Machacek Branch
SC—Schlafly Branch
SS—Social Sciences (Central Library)
ST—Stacks (Central Library)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allison, Graham T. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971. ST—327.73

Blight, James G, and David A. Welch. On the Brink: Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. BU—973.922

Brugioni, Dino A, and Robert F. McCort. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Random House, 1991. ST,BU—973.922

Chang, Laurence, and Peter Kornbluh. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A National Security Archive Documents Reader. New York: The New Press, 1992. ST—973.922

Dobbs, Michael. One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. HG,ST,BU,CP,MA,SC—972.91064

Frankel, Max. High Noon in the Cold War: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. SS—327.47093

Garthoff, Raymond L. Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution, 1987. ST—972.91064

George, Alice L. Awaiting Armageddon: How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. HG—973.912

Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969. SS,BU—327.73

May, Ernest R, and Philip Zelikow. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. HG,BU—973.922

JFK AND THE MOSQUITO FLEET

PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats were small fast vessels used by the U.S. Navy during World War II to attack larger Japanese naval vessels and cargo barges. Navy men called them the Mosquito Fleet; the Japanese called them Devil Boats. PT boats were armed with several torpedoes and two .50 caliber machine-guns, plus (in some cases) a 20 mm cannon. The crews of 12-17 men relied on the element of surprise, their vessel’s speed, and its small silhouette to avoid being targeted by the enemy.

Duty on a PT boat could be hazardous indeed; 99 of 531 (19%) were sunk by the Japanese, including PT 109 (famously commanded by Lt. [jg] John F. Kennedy). Kennedy’s boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer and cut in half during the night of August 2, 1943. Of his crew of 13, two men died during the collision, while one was badly burned (but survived).

Abbreviations include:

Library branches:

BU: Buder Branch
CB: Cabanne Branch
MA: Machacek Branch

Central Library locations:

BG: Business, Government, & Law Room
EL: Entertainment, Literature, & Biography Room
HG: History, Geography, & Travel Room
ST: Stacks

Ballard, Robert D, and Michael H. Morgan. Collision with History: The Search for John F. Kennedy's PT-109. Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 2002. ST--940.545973

Breuer, William B. Devil Boats: The PT War Against Japan. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1987. HG--940.5426

Bulkley, Robert J. At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy. Washington, D.C: Naval History Division, 1962. ST--940.92

Donovan, Robert J. PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001. ST--940.92

Dunnigan, James F, and Albert A. Nofi. Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacific. New York: William Morrow and Co, 1995. MA,ST--940.5426

Marston, Daniel, and Daniel Marston. The Pacific War Companion: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima. Oxford: Osprey, 2005. HG-940.5426

O'Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2005. BU,EL--B KENNEDY JOHN

Polmar, Norman, and Samuel L. Morison. PT Boats at War: World War II to Vietnam. Osceola, WI: MBI Pub, 1999. BG—359.3258

Strahan, Jerry E. Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. ST—B HIGGINS

Tregaskis, Richard. John F. Kennedy and PT-109. New York: Random House, 1962. CB—940.92