The sidesaddle, designed with stirrups on one side so that women could ride horses in relative safety without sitting astride, didn’t come along until around the sixteenth century. How…
My father was deployed in Viet Nam when I was a little kid. I missed Dad more than anything and prayed hard every night that he…
This mourning cockade, with photo of Lincoln mounted in a portable metal frame, would have been worn on a hat, probably by a woman. More…
My article on Thomas Morris Chester, Black news correspondant in the Civil War, is posted at New York Times: Disunion. A few words (that didn’t fit…
My book review of poet Steve Scafidi’s book To the Bramble and the Briar is posted at Civil War Monitor: LINK I hope the review will…
Historians writing about General Benjamin Butler love to point out his not-ready-for-Hollywood personal appearance. “His features were brutish,” Adam Goodheart says in 1861, adding a…