“Killing Time,” my article on playing cards in the Civil War, was run in New York Times Disunion blog – read it here. (The article…
If the roots of Whitman’s witness tree were bathed in the anguish the poet beheld, no wonder its form holds such tortured beauty. Walt Whitman…
Denomination didn’t matter. If a church had a steeple, gunners wanted to hit it. Federal gunners at Fredericksburg and elsewhere simply couldn’t seem to resist…
Historian and You Stink! author Michael Aubrecht offers a look at the great American game, baseball, and its Civil War era roots. Baseball is considered America’s…
Though President Lincoln’s beautiful words were given on a cool November day, they are worth a rerun on this day. In a sense, we’re still…
Due to domestic pressure, I’ve wanted to do a post on cats of the Civil War. I tried, but came up with only one feline…