Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog

"Smart is the ability to solve hard problems, which can be done many ways. Stupid is a tendency to not comprehend easy problems." ...

Slowly I am learning that writing a family history book is not anything like writing an extra-long article. A book is more like infinity  --...

This article by Douglas Preston in April 8 The New Yorker , alternating between hilarity and horror, shows how a paleontologist can reconstr...

Four steps, from social psychologist Anatol Rapaport via philosopher Daniel Dennett.

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.