Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

You are six hours away from home. The probate clerk has unlocked the records room, containing probate information back to the beginning of t...

Colorado State University Pueblo historian Jonathan Rees writes over at The Historical Society :  . . . humanities professors faced with ...

Being able to focus on just one thing for half a day is an unusual luxury in my world, but it's often the most fun and most efficient wa...

James Lang, a professor of English at Assumption College, has an interesting review-and-commentary article dealing in part with Therese Hus...

The current New York Review of Books includes a nice review of what sounds like a good readable background book if your research takes you ...

We all make mistakes . . . constantly. In my own lives, I have: * constructed skylights that leaked persistently, * nailed up clapboards...

Stroll ing along an aisle of p hysical books in an actual library is a really retro thing to do. But given the imperfections of book produ...