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• Intro
• Contents
• Author's Note
• Foreword
• Part I. Terms, Style & Use
• 1. Terms & Definitions
• 2. Honorifics & Titles
• 3. Names
• 4. Abbreviations & Post-Nominals
• 5. Addresses, Salutations & Closings
• 6. Invitations, Place Cards & Name Badges
• 7. Introductions
• 8. Precedence
• 9. Joint Forms of Address
• Part II. Forms of Address
• 10. Private Citizens
• 11. Professionals & Academics
• 12. U.S. Federal, State & Municipal Officials
• 13. U.S. Armed Services
• 14. U.S. Diplomats & International Representatives
• 15. Tribal Officials

• 16. Clergy & Religious Officials
• 17. Canadian Officials
• 18. Australian Officials
• 19. British Officials, Royalty & Nobility
• 20. International Officials & Diplomats
• Part III. Country Names & Officials
• 21. Country Names & Officials
• Acknowledgments
• With Gratitude
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author

• A New City and an Old World
• A Marriage Gone Wrong
• Mentor and Disciple
• New World Treasure and Glyphs on a Stone
• Chicago Holds a Fair
• A Museum in the Making
• The University Takes Charge
• At Home in Mexico
• The Inspector's Challenge
• Of Sailors and Revolution
• Empire and Pleasure Gardens
• Tea with Lawrence
• A New Era Begins
• Legacy.

• An archive made and unmade
• Revenge in the archive
• Archiving without an archive
• Official records and the search for truth
• "Simply the facts"
• Missing links
• The archive and sectional reconciliation
• An imperfect story.

• Introduction: Uniquely Nasty?
• Big D and Me
• TVTV to USC
• Chase Manhattan Rockefeller
• Kings Can Never Be Wrong
• Teach It Flat or Teach It Round
• The Governor Meets with the Gays
• Kameny's Attic
• Archive Activism: Recovering LGBTQ History
• Lilli Vincenz, Leibenkuntzler
• "Negroes," "Agitators," and "Racial Perverts"
• Counsel for the "Preverts" vs. Waco's John Dowdy
• Presidential Libraries: Theirs or Ours?
• Ex-Ex in Paris
• Asylum Seekers
• A Queer American Spy Story
• International Inspirations
• Remember
• In Buffalo Bill's Cody: Traveling While Gay
• At Hoover's Grave
• "What Day's Today?"
• The Unclassified Principles of Archive Activism.

"Archive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, "gone missing," or sealed that somehow escaped the fireplace or shredder. It is an approach to LGBTQ advocacy and policy activism based on citizen archivery and original archival research to effect social change. Research=Activism is the formula growing out of Charles Francis's personal story as a gay Texan born and raised during the 1950s and 1960s in Dallas. The rescues range in time and place from Francis's first encounter with a raucous, near-violent religious demonstration in Fort Worth to attics loaded with forgotten historic treasures of LGBTQ pioneers. Archive Activism tells how Francis helped Governor George W. Bush achieve his dream of becoming president in 2000 by reaching out to gay and lesbian supporters, the first time a Republican candidate for president formally met with gay and lesbian Americans. This inspired Francis to engage with deleted LGBTQ history by forming a historical society with an edge, a new Mattachine Society of Washington, DC. For the first time, Archive Activism reveals how LGBTQ secrets were held for decades at the LBJ Presidential Library in the papers of President Johnson's personal secretary, sealed until her death at age 105. Mattachine's signature discovery is a federal attorney's classified assault blandly filed under "Suitability" at the National Archives: "What it boils down to is that most men look upon homosexuality as something uniquely nasty." Archive Activism is not only a memoir but also an essential roadmap for activists from any group armed only with their library cards"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Part I: Rise. New York, 1784
• Astoria, 1810
• Massacre Opera House, 1849
• 840 Fifth Avenue, 1908
• Waldorf-Astoria, 1928
• Hever Castle, 1916
• Part II: Fall. Rokeby, 1875
• Halifax, April 15, 1912
• Blackwell's Island, 1910
• Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966
• Ferncliff, 1952
• The last Astor, 2013
• Epilogue.

"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention--and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society--Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it--and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother--who had herself married into the family for money--the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself"--Dust jacket flap.

"In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals of our time. In Scialabba's hands, literary criticism becomes a powerful tool for expressing political passion and demonstrating the generative power of argument and an inquisitive mind. Drawing together a diverse group of thinkers, artists, activists, and philosophers-including Edward Said, D. H. Lawrence, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ellen Willis, and Noam Chomsky-Scialabba tours western intellectual history to find that no matter the stakes, critical thought remains a necessary precondition for politics"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I: Eastern seaboard. Getting her camera, May-August 1949
• Daddy and Mummy, 1929-1948
• Part II: Europe. A new language, August-October 1949
• Paris, October-November 1949
• The "terrific" vacation, November 1949-January 1950
• Autonomy, January-June 1950
• Liberté, June-September 1950
• Part III: Families. East Hampton, September 1950
• Newport, September-October 1950
• Part IV: Writing. George Washington University, October-December 1950
• Last semester, January-March 1951
• Vogue, April-June 1951
• Lee, June-September 1951
• Office clerk, September-December 1951
• Palm Beach, December 1951
• Part V: The paper. The blue room, January 1952
• Out on the street, February 1952
• Byline, March 1952
• Working woman, April 1952
• A second dinner, May-June 1952
• Part VI: The campaign. Hyannis Port, July 1952
• Summer in the city, August-September 1952
• Massachusetts, October-November 1952
• Palm Beach, II, November-December 1952
• Inauguration, January 1953
• Part VII: Courtship. Love and sex, February 1953
• Meeting of the minds, March 1953
• The Vietnam report, March-April 1953
• Dating, April-May 1953
• Coronation, May-June 1953
• Engagement, June 1953
• Partner, July-September 1953.

"Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald, the paper's "Inquiring Camera Girl," who posed intelligent and amusing questions to the public on the streets of D.C. (while also snapping their photos with her unwieldy Leica camera). She then fashioned the results into a daily column, 600 of which were published in total. Carl Anthony, author and leading expert on First Ladies, uses these columns and other writings of hers from that time, as well as a trove of revealing interviews he has conducted with her friends and colleagues, to offer a fresh and modern perspective on the young woman who would later become one of the world's most beloved icons. It's a glamorous, surprising, and distinctly feminist story about a woman determining her own priorities and defining herself, told with admiration and empathy, as well as journalistic rigor and historical accuracy"-- Provided by publisher.

Der Tod ist die einzige Gewissheit des Lebens. Das Bewusstsein von der eigenen Sterblichkeit ist eine Grundbedingung des Menschseins und hat über Jahrhunderte Religionen und Philosophen zu Deutungsversuchen herausgefordert. Die Möglichkeit der menschengemachten Auslöschung des Erdenlebens vor Augen, widmet sich der vorliegende Band verschiedenen Formen, mit der eigenen Zeitlichkeit umzugehen: vom Pomp der Leichenzüge im antiken Rom und der ars moriendi des Mittelalters zu Pariser Revolutionsfriedhöfen, der Erinnerung an Hiroshima und an die Unerträglichkeit des Holocaust, vom Heldentod im Krieg über Filmtote und Sterbepraktiken im Kulturvergleich zum unendlichen Ende im Computerspiel und der Hoffnung auf Unsterblichkeit im Cyberspace. Der vorliegende Band lädt zu einer interdisziplinären Tour d'Horizon zum vielgestaltigen Umgang mit dem Tod ein und stellt Forschungsergebnisse aus den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, aus Theologie, Philosophie und Geschichte sowie aus der Kunst-, Musik- und Medienwissenschaft in einem weiten Spektrum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart vor. provided by publisher (back cover).

A selection of essays on symbola, as the tokens of Classical Athens were called, bringing together scholars of various disciplines and professional categories (numismatists, historians, museum curators) that intends to reshape our knowledge on the roles these objects played in the Athenian Democracy. This is a series of case studies which aspires to test old theories and probe new assumptions. The first section explores the extent to which our knowledge has evolved since symbola were first distinguished from coins. Four essays demonstrate how tokens, as material manifestations of particular institutions, contributed to the formation of civic and political identity in the city-state of Athens and the roles they played in ensuring legal and political equality. The second section of the volume on new finds aims to develop expertise in studying tokens and increase relevant knowledge. Finally, a third section contains comparative studies from Sicily, Jerusalem and Ephesos, aiming to adopt a comparative methodology for a better understanding of the characteristics and roles of tokens from across the ancient Mediterranean. 0Contributors: Vera Geelmuyden Bulgurlu, Tumay Hazinedar Coscun, Antonino Crisà, Yoav Farhi, P. J. Finglass, Mairi Gkikaki, Irini Karra, James Kierstead, John H. Kroll, Stamatoula Makrypodi, Christian Mondello, Daria Russo, Martin Schäfer.

• Together and apart
• Privileged prodigies
• Promise and disruption
• Caught in the whirlwind
• Arguing Aristotle
• Inventing a world history
• From peace to chaos
• Nemesis : Mahmud of Ghazni
• Ibn Sina, encyclopedist
• Expanding the known world
• Ibn Sina's adventures
• Biruni's masterpiece
• The canon of medicine
• Biruni's canon for Masud
• The cure
• Biruni's encore
• Ibn Sina's encore
• Biruni and Ibn Sina through the ages
• Biruni and Ibn Sani, a millennium on.