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The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) has since its inception published annual serial monographs or journals to achieve its mission of communicating horticultural science. To recognize the accomplishments of the membership, a series of professional awards was created. After the individual awards, the ASHS created publication awards. This paper, and the papers that follow, document the publication awards of the ASHS. The papers were based on presentations at the 2023 annual conference and serve as additional recognition of the contributions of member authors and as a historical record of achievements of the ASHS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, scientists have found examples of play behavior throughout the animal kingdom. They've observed tadpoles hitching rides on bubbles from aquarium aeration stones and monitor lizards fetching soda [...]

With enemy fire pummelling the American camp, First Class Sergeant Bennie G Adkins burst into his rudimentary headquarters and hastily gathered together any papers or files he could find. The [...]

Key Events 1767 TOWNSHEND ACTS Further to the taxation policies of the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts are passed. These acts establish taxation on imported essential goods, like tea, paper [...]

Did you know that the Ancient Greeks invented pancakes? Tiganites most likely have their origins in an ancient Greek pancake known as teganites, a recipe for which still exists thanks [...]

01 We're introduced to Empress Elisabeth (aka Sissi) as she attempts to squeeze into a tight corsage, obsessed with her weight and image. This is one of the few accurate [...]

Despite centuries of research and interest in the Aztec people, they remain one of the more misunderstood and mysterious cultures to many of us. Thanks to a combination of Spanish [...]

From Sherlock Holmes to Miss Marple, we all love stories of the eccentric master detective, solving crimes through clever deduction and superior wit. Yet the world's first modern investigator was [...]

Historian Taylor Downing's latest book, The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception, covers the audacious schemes of Operation Fortitude, the misdirection and misinformation mission to confuse German [...]

Author: Philip Birtles Publisher: Fonthill Media Price: [pounds sterling]25 (Hardback) Released: Out now John 'Cat's Eyes' Cunningham is well-known for his success as an RAF night fighter pilot during the [...]

Starting in 1938 after the November pogroms, known as Kristallnacht, and going right up to the invasion of Poland in September 1939, a concerted and organised effort was made to [...]

For more than 900 years, the Tower of London has guarded the north bank of the River Thames. At various times a royal palace, menagerie, public record office, mint, arsenal, [...]

The Fairey Swordfish entered service with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm (FAA) in 1936. Already slow and outdated by modern standards, a requirement was issued in the same year [...]

As the 1980s drew to a close, a quirky group of youthful outsiders began to dominate the New York club scene. These were strange creatures to mainstream observers, a misfit [...]

History shows that when conducting consecutive wars, military leaders fight the 'next' war with doctrine, equipment and tactics stemming from the previous. If it worked last time, the prevailing wisdom [...]

Leonardo da Vinci is remembered as a 'dual genius', the great artist who gave us the Mona Lisa and the great inventor who conceived machines that would not exist for [...]

An early proponent of the American abolitionist movement and a hugely successful female writer, Lydia Maria Child forged her own path from the young age of 22. Ignoring the naysayers [...]

Michael Kimmage is a leading academic in US-Russian relations and Cold War history. He is currently professor in history at The Catholic University of America and a research fellow with [...]

DANGLING ON A ROPE SOME 40 FEET UP, AMID A LABYRINTH of leafy tree limbs, I looked down and questioned my sanity for asking the two men far below to [...]

ON A BRISK MARCH AFTERNOON, Kazuhiko Akiba and a colleague stood in the courtyard of the Chiba Kogaku glass factory in Japan, ready to unveil their latest creation. A forklift [...]

Key Events 17 FEB 1958 GIVE PEACE A CHANCE The peace symbol is introduced by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at their inaugural meeting in London. It is designed by [...]

Who was Charles Lindbergh? Charles Lindbergh became famous in 1927 when he became the first man to fly across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. Suddenly, out of nowhere [...]

When Klara Hitler died from breast cancer in December 1907, just four days before Christmas, her devoted son Adolf was devastated. The Jewish family doctor, Eduard Bloch, visited the family [...]

As she nervously waited for the doctors to begin a cesarean section, she put on a playlist she had made for the occasion. It consisted of songs she found calming [...]

Astronomy's extensive collections of photographic glass plates contain historical images and spectra of celestial objects, documenting more than a century of the observable cosmos. Many reveal changes, both sudden (explosive), periodic, or gradual (evolutionary), which is material of immense interest for time-domain studies because of the long time-base they cover. Those early photographic observations also furnished all the basic data which supported our early understanding of the universe, and from which modern stellar classifications have been derived. Once the ubiquitous workhorse detector, plates or film are now replaced by electronic detectors, and systems are modified to take advantage of advances in telescope technology. This change poses challenges of preservation and accessibility for the plates, leading administrators to question the usefulness of the older materials in relation to the cost of their care and preservation. The following paper details many examples of reusing or re-purposing those plates, demonstrates their unique value to modern astronomy and the history of science, and makes a strong case for committing resources towards their long-term preservation and ultimately their comprehensive digitization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A History of the World in 12 Shipwrecks. By David Gibbins. St Martin's Press; 304 pages; $32. W&N; £25 A spectre is haunting history—the listicle. You know the formula: a [...]

TRAINING FOR D-DAY In the nine months running up to D-Day, over 2.8 million servicemen were stationed in southern England, preparing for the invasion of Normandy. There was limited doctrine [...]

During the 19th century, the Black Sea Fleet's mere existence became a sticking point for Europe's great powers, as Russia's Imperial ambitions clashed with those of its western and southern [...]