Posts Tagged ‘American civil war’
From the Archives: Copperheads
Sometimes life makes it impossible to write blog posts on a dependable basis. This is one of the those times. For the next little while, I’m going to run pieces from September and October five or six years past. I hope you enjoy them, and I’ll be back as soon as I can. First up,…
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In which I finally finish reading The Three-Cornered War
My last blog post was pulled from the History in the Margins archives: a piece on the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado, an early event in the wars between the United States government and the Plains Indian nations that ended at the Battle of Wounded Knee. In the course of reviewing the piece before I…
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Telling Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Paula Tarnapol Whitacre
Paula Tarnapol Whitacre and I met for the simple reason that we both wrote books dealing with women who ended up in Alexandria, Virginia, in the Civil War. I wrote about nurses who served at Mansion House Hospital; Paula wrote about Julia Wilbur, an abolitionist and reformer. Paula is a freelance writer and editor, usually…
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