Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

Back in the day (when there had been only thirty-four presidents), I memorized all the presidents and their dates when they were featured wi...

Literary historian P. Gabrielle Foreman has this list. Wish I knew this many ways ten years ago!

This story by Ann McGrath is from  Australia, but the lesson is international.

I have thought of professional genealogists as an island surrounded by amateurs, but it had not occurred to me that the same might be said o...

  Three economists -- Dora Costa, Noelle Yetter, and Heather DeSomer -- have investigated "when and how health shocks reverberate acros...

CAUTION: I have not read this book. I found it noted in the Legal History Blog . Fugitive Slaves and Spaces of Freedom in North America ...

. . . in the fall issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register for the second and concluding installment, now visible to N...