Though domesticated for millennia, cats and dogs didn’t enjoy the indoors much until relatively recently…. Until the mid-19th century, cats and dogs allowed indoors were…
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones, tells a story so rich and intricate, so visionary, it’s impossible to describe except in the flattest terms. The…
1866, Richmond, Virginia: “The Hollywood [Cemetery] Association observed May 31st as Memorial Day. Business was suspended, the stores closed, and the whole city turned out…
Coal Black Horse, an American Civil War novel by Robert Olmstead, is poetry in prose, and a quest story both straightforward and profound. A mother —…
I’m way far from being an expert on battles, etc, nor am I a fan of pocket-Napoleon McClellan, yet the last sentence of the following…
Walt Whitman was ambivalent about alcohol. Many Whitman biographers believe his father was alcoholic, and a friend recorded that Whitman attributed his little brother’s developmental deficits to alcohol…