Mercy Street (aka A Moment of Blatant Self-Promotion)

Just so you know, this is what I spent the last ten weeks doing: It’s the companion volume to a new PBS historical drama about nurses in the Civil War. The PBS series uses a real Civil War hospital as the setting for a fictionalized (and quite gorgeous) drama. (Check out some of promotional pieces…

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This Isn’t a Blog Post.

It’s a link to a website I discovered when I was procrastinating on my Really Big Project.*  Global Middle Ages is the home site for a group of  projects that began with a teaching experiment at the University of Texas.  The charge was “to see the world whole in a large swathe of time—as a…

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Gone fishin’

I’m up to my knees in the rushing waters of history right now.  Once I climb out, dry off, and have a reviving shot of whiskey or three,  I’ll be back in here in the Margins with new stories.  I promise.

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