Editor’s Corner

Abstract

In planning this editorial I was reflecting on the new year. I began thinking about what was happening a hundred years ago, back in 1919. The most significant diplomatic event was the Paris Peace Conference, (image 1) and domestically the ratification of the 18th and 19th Amendments, but that seemed a bit much to cover in an editorial. In a quest for different ideas, I looked through the February 1919 edition of the Monthly Catalog—or Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents. As I looked at what was published, it amazed me how many issues that we are dealing with now were also being addressed back then.