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…
The ballad “The Irish Volunteer,” written and performed by Irish-American Joe English and published in 1864, tells the story of an Irish rebel’s son who…
W. asked Corning [candidate for the pulpit of the Unitarian church on Benson street]: “And what may be the subject of your sermon tomorrow?” “My…
The Mexican War, though only two years long, weighs heavily among the direct causes of the American Civil War. The new territories won by the…