On Juneteenth (or any day), please join this tour of Harriet Jacobs in Civil War Alexandria that I put together for two special visitors!

A three-hour international trip from Lubec, Maine (USA), to Campobello Island, New Brunswick (Canada)

My account of the Oct. 6-10 pilgrimage from Alexandria, Virginia, to Montgomery, Alabama, with the Alexandria Community Remembrance Project.

A moving ceremony to formally open a moving place.

Surprises lay underneath the Alexandria waterfront.

From an aqueduct across the Potomac, 7 miles to Alexandria—but someone had to pay for it all.

Julia Wilbur’s final resting spot in Avon, New York, is definitely more restful now.

Lesson of the Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay—ships built in a hurry are not a great idea

Field trip: Alexandria African American Heritage Park

Harriet Jacobs hid in an enclosure 9 feet by 7 feet in Edenton, NC, which we visited last week.

Connecting Bostonians William Cooper Nell and Lydia Maria Child with Harriet Jacobs.

Fortunately, a much calmer boat ride to Nats Park from the Alexandria waterfront last week than in October 1862.

Stories behind Civil War graffiti at Historic Blenheim in Fairfax, VA.

Esther Bubley took photographs of Tomball, Texas, in 1945. I visited a different Tomball last week.

What do Langston Hughes, Myrna Loy, and Blanca Verala have in common? They all lived in D.C., as did hundreds more writers you do and do not already know.

Julia Wilbur does New York City--July 1863, right before the Draft Riots. I follow her footsteps in 2018.

A visit to Congressional Cemetery at dusk in late March.

No, the GG bridge wasn't built in the Civil War, but the Presidio was up and running.

Contemplating the role of Dr. Samuel Mudd in the Lincoln assassination, while surrounded by his and his family's possessions.