Thursday, December 17, 2009

Prologue—the best history magazine you've never heard of. . .

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Well, of course I don't mean that you haven't heard of it. If you need guidance accessing the treasure trove of materials archived ...
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Monday, December 07, 2009

These are a few of my favorite graves. . .

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(an occasional installment) Most students of the American Civil War have read at least cursory accounts of the celebrated exploits of th...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

The American Thanksgiving holiday

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was formally established during the administration of Abraham Lincoln, and was first observed the week following Lincoln's dedication o...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Corroboration is everything. . .

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When 8-year old George Patten's friends did not believe he had met Abraham Lincoln, he was able — through his teacher — to obtain a han...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Veterans Day

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World War I -- known at the time as “The Great War” -- officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in theP...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

As if you needed a reason to buy a book on Saturday

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M ore than 140 independent bookstores around the country have signed up to participate in National Bookstore Day, a Publisher's Weekly...
Monday, November 02, 2009

Dave the Slave

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a Q&A with author Leonard Todd At left. Leonard Todd with some of Dave’s pottery. Photo by Brook Facey. Faithful readers with b...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Senator Broderick would have given anything for a mulligan. . .

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Congratulations to the American team for a great victory in last week's President's Cup. I've never been one to watch a lot o...
Saturday, October 03, 2009

Sharlene Perez de-cluttered her closet and ended up depositing $130,000.

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Read all about it in the L.A. Times. I wonder how much I can get for my mint condition Evansville Triplets rain poncho? You can't get ...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

"it is easier to turn a historian into a map drawer than an artist into a historian."

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Been reading entries at the welcome new blog, The Trans-Mississippian, and was interested to see an interview with Donald S. Frazier, who...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

An artist, and slave

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Dave, a slave, was born in 1801 and as a teenager was put to work in a pottery near Edgefield, South Carolina, making stoneware vessels s...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Amsterdam Acoustics - Dead Confederate : The Rat

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Dead Confederate. Unplugged.
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Monday, August 31, 2009

The Oxford American, the Southern Magazine of Good Writing surveyed 134 Southern writers to ask them to name the best Southern novels.

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I'm not sure what parameters were used to define Southern writers, or Southern novels, but there's no call for nit-picking. Here a...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

I'm back with my brood from 9 days of camping atop the Medicine Lake Shield Volcano

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—the largest and probably least known volcano in all of the Cascade range (least known because shield volcanoes do not conform to the class...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Melancholy, Scot and Robin, The Who, President's Wall, Brave Ulysses

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MELANCHOLY This is the painting that hangs over my computer (my poor digital photograph does not do it justice). I enjoy staring at in it...
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Sunday, August 02, 2009

A final comment about LSU Press's bacon being pulled out of the fire, at least momentarily. . .

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I should have mentioned, given my own experience, that the "good news" about university press's surviving rounds of severe co...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009

good news update to yesterday's post. . .LSU Press lives to publish

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Apparently I got in on this story right at the tail end of the two-month period of uncertainty over the Press's fate. Prompted by bibli...
Friday, July 17, 2009

"I dust a bit," Ignatius told the policeman."

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"In addition, I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labo...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Kenneth M. Stampp, R.I.P.

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another giant in the field passes C elebrated Historian Altered Understanding of Slavery By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer ...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

introducing Woodbury Historical Tours

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Lee's Retreat, and the Surrender at Appomattox August 7 and 8, with Ron Wilson and Patrick Schroeder 2 days of tours, includes lunc...
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