Eastern State Penitentiary, Day 1
Last week I started a grand new adventure, one of several that this year is bringing. I had my first taste of Eastern State Penitentiary...
Dispatch from Dalmatia
This blog has had a bit of a fallow stretch. I've been busy with preparations for moving and generally trying to enjoy my last bit of...
"What Young Historians Are Thinking" Symposium: June 4, 2016
This weekend in Mount Joy is the 2016 edition of the "What Young Historians Are Thinking" symposium, sponsored jointly by the Lancaster...
'Ghettoside' by Jill Leovy
A couple of months ago I was reading an article about gun violence in America and a factoid caught my attention: "Eighteenth-century...
Remembering the Black Hawk War
Historical markers must have been on my mind after hearing that NPR story (featured in my "Collected Links" blog post), because the other...
Collected Links
Often I come across stories online that connect in someway with what I'm reading or thinking about at the time. Sometimes on this blog,...