Please visit my New York Times Disunion article on men’s underwear in the Civil War, the basics on their form and manufacturing, laundering and lice,…
“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…
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,…