Beginning this week, I will be writing a regular column for JSTOR Daily, a new online magazine that “features topical…
On a chilly day in December 1861, an Iowa farmer and Colorado gold miner named Alonzo Ferdinand Ickis put on…
They say you can always go home again. This is certainly true for me; my parents are happy when I come home…
Why do so few historians talk about the American Civil War in the West? And by “the West” I don’t…
You probably think that I’ve got some sort of obsession with vampire TV shows and movies. But have you considered…