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…
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…
My New York Times Disunion article The Iron Brigade was posted today. The Brigade caught my attention when I was researching my Wisconsin ancestors. I…
I’m honored that my article on Fredericksburg National Cemetery is the Memorial Day feature for The New York Times Disunion column. The source of the Walt Whitman quotes…