History fans in the New York area are invited to the Corner Bookstore on Tuesday, August 13, to hear James Corbett David read from his new book Dunmore’s New World.

Our congratulations go out to Douglas Bradburn, whom the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association has named the founding director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington. As library director, he will oversee Mount Vernon’s efforts to safeguard original Washington books and manuscripts and to foster new scholarly research about George Washington and the Founding Era.

Edmund S. Morgan, a Pulitzer- and Bancroft-Prize-winning author and one of America’s great historians, has passed away at the age of 91. His more than fifteen books display his ability to see how unique combinations of personalities and events make history. “No matter what anyone says,” he once remarked, “history does not repeat itself.”