While researching my book about the Battle of Waynesboro, I came across a number of interesting personalities from Waynesboro's past. The...

I have a piece coming out in American Digger Magazine later this year which explores the evolution of the Minié ball and its use and co...

Legendary Southern historian Shelby Foote's critics recoil at what they consider to be a "Lost Cause" romance story. Foote is so passé, d...

I’m about half way through John Barry’s, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul – Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty. ...

I always enjoy reading Victor Davis Hanson's essays. His training and broad knowledge of American and world history, combined with the wi...

I recently read, with great interest, an article about the 50th Gettysburg Reunion held in 1913. As I read the piece, I could not help bu...

The founder of the colony of Rhode Island and of the first Baptist church in America, Roger Williams, left England for America in 1630. H...

I've been (seriously) writing and blogging for a couple of decades now. It's hard to believe. Lord willin', I'll be 61 years old this mon...