Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Imagine an industry so huge that it had an office in every town of any size; that was a hub of techological innovation; that was indispensab...

We think of laws as general and impersonal, but legislatures also pass "private" or "local" laws directed to individuals...

UCLA law professor Stuart Banner has written American Property, a lively, smart history of how some things have quit being property (huma...

If the reader can't figure out what action is taking place, then the writer has fallen into a pit. Always. So following Helen Sword'...

Grace Dumelle -- author, house historian, and Newberry librarian -- has just the sort of very thorough post on the Newberry blog that genea...

Suppose, just hypothetically, that you were tapped (or inspired) to write a blog post every few months on "The State of the Profession...

  Archives.com has just posted my article, "Ten Little Known Indiana Records," but the truth is that these sources are little-kno...