From the Archives: Running on Railroad Time

In case you haven’t heard, I am still deep in book mode.  May 1 approaches, and I am doing the revision hokey-pokey.  (Put the right words in, take the wrong words out, but the right words, and you shake it all about.)  While I turn myself around, here is a post for your amusement that…

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From The Archives: Lincoln’s Greatest Case–Sort of

One of the recurring themes this fall as we worked our way along the Great River Road, crossing the Mississippi back and forth between Iowa and Wisconsin was, in fact, the question of crossing the river.  We think of “bridge-building” as a metaphor for bringing communities together, but the construction of real-life bridges was often…

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