Nineteenth-century memoirs, letters, newspaper stories, and novels in the US were loaded, and sometimes larded, with American dialect. Civil War U.S. Navy paymaster William Keeler…
The Blue and the Gray have emerged from winter quarters. As the roads dry up and allow for the movement of artillery, the fighting heats…
Imagine a fireplace and live music on a passenger train…. In many ways, life in the Civil War era must have been, quite simply, a…
Maintain and mend was the rule in America through the nineteenth century. Wealthy people passed down worn, damaged, or out-of-fashion clothes, furniture, and dishes to…
On April 30, 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place. Tensions had been rising between the Apache Indians and American settlers. But the commander of…
An 1865 picture of Petersburg shows a delightful hodgepodge of paving and other details of a streetscape in a 19th century small American city. All…