The Citizen Soldier at Colonial Williamsburg
So often the momentary intrudes upon the momentous. Against the backdrop of dramatic political change, every-day concerns pressured the families of colonial…
So often the momentary intrudes upon the momentous. Against the backdrop of dramatic political change, every-day concerns pressured the families of colonial…
I feel something of an obligation to acknowledge up front that I hated Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris’s…
First they came to Phoenix. Then they came to New York and Los Angeles. Now they’ve come to Baltimore. Homeland Security Secretary…
On November 15, 1775, John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore and the royal governor of Virginia, issued a proclamation setting “all indentured…
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Cities. We begin our journey here in the United States, where CatSynth shows us some photos…
Margaret Thatcher notes in her excellent book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World: America is more than a nation or a state…
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. Reading Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face, the story of her childhood battle…