Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Last week I got to spend some time in a college town (Charleston, Illinois), and I picked up a nice hefty reference book in a used-book stor...

I've been reading a 22-year-old anthology in which a baker's dozen of historians summarized some of the ways in which historical kno...

Very interesting review in the San Francisco Chronicle of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner, distinguis...