The New York Times reports that the New York Public Library is buying four hundred boxes of correspondence, journals, and other writing of late historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

In a time of daily articles describing the efforts of misguided librarians to destroy the institution of the library from within, it is refreshing to read of a library system taking its mission seriously.

Fresh Air is rerunning a 2002 interview with Pulitzer Prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Slate has an obituary of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., historian and author of works such as The Age of Jackson.