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…
Stuart Connell Nottingham relates in prose and poetry the beautiful story of a woman who served “in a small way in four wars.” Thank you,…
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…