Initialed notices were written by Wesley Hurt, David M. Pletcher, James R. Scobie, and Thomas G. Powell, all of Indiana University.
When the original edition of this encyclopedia appeared in 1956, it was welcomed as a useful reference aid, comprehensive and well arranged. (Reviewed in HAHR, May 1957, 247.) The new edition has fewer pages and is more compact, but it contains much material about the intervening decade. It will be most valuable for obscure proper names, both of persons and of organizations. Definitions of Spanish- and Portuguese-language terms will also be handy to supplement conventional dictionaries. A minor regret: The revising editor ignored two comments of the last HAHR reviewer about slight inaccuracies.
Copyright 1969 by Duke University Press
1969