In the epilogue to my first book, The Battle of New Market Heights: Freedom Will Be Theirs By The Sword , I wrote the following: If the...

Greetings and salutations everyone! My apologies for another extended break from blogging. While my posts have grown few and far between, ...

This is slightly depressing to admit, but it was twenty years ago this month that I started my first job in public history. A faintly emacia...

I’d like to draw your attention to an article that was published this morning over at The Guardian regarding the preservation efforts unde...

Greetings and salutations to the three of you who still remember that this blog exists! Well, it’s 2018 and three years have passed since an...

Greetings, and happy 2017! It’s hard to believe that this blog has been dormant for over a year… Much has changed since I last posted. I...

Part six in a series. The Richmond-Petersburg Campaign witnessed many dark days for the Army of Northern Virginia, but one that has recei...

Part five in a series. In my last post we finished off the First Battle of Deep Bottom by examining the final day of major fighting, Ju...

Part four in a series. In my last post we examined the first large-scale fighting of the First Battle of Deep Bottom – the clash at Til...

Greetings, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone -- I hope you all have a chance to relax, gorge yourself on some turkey, and do some light readin...