A great conversation with Lynne Olson, author of a biography of French archaeologist Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt.

How my poster for the D.C. History Conference came to be

Tips from accomplished biographers about how they create what they create.

Learn about the process of storytelling from an expert.

A talk about two of my favorite women….and not on Zoom!

Consider the challenge of an escape from slavery via the watery depths.

Will the 10 remaining Army bases named for Confederates finally be renamed? As of mid-December, the bill awaits the president’s signing or veto.

When I moderated a History Author talk on Zoom, I spoke with two authors with very different ways to approach the topic of women in the Civil War.

A fascinating talk by Leslie Rowland, director of the Freedmen & Southern Society Project, on the Black Military Experience during the Civil War—drawn from National Archives documents.

Here’s a short hand-out that I used at a writing-for-publication workshop last week.

My own panel, and lots more learned (and a shot in the arm) from colleagues.

A conversation at Ford's Theatre on April 16--D.C. Emancipation Day--between historian Kate Masur and journalist Michele Norris about this fascinating book and its original author, John E. Washington

An evening with Nikki O'Dell, who portrayed Harriet Jacobs in the PBS documentary Slavery and the Making of America.

Lance Mallamo helped a rapt audience "find" some pieces of lost Alexandria.

Watch my conversation with Bjorn Skaptason on Author's Voice at Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.

Few first-person accounts by USCT are known, which is why the diary of Sgt. Major Christian Fleetwood caught my interest.

Meredith Barber on the history of the Athenaeum building in Old Town Alexandria.

Among Susan Ireland's investments was the building where Clara Barton lived in the 1860s. But how did Ireland get her money, and how could she invest as a woman in that era?

Notes from a talk about Theodore Roosevelt Island by NPS expert Brad Krueger, who also spurred my visit there last weekend.

I created a Julia Wilbur Walking Tour. Here's how. (And I will do it again, now that I have road-tested it!)