What would Julia think?
/No protest marches in Julia Wilbur's life, but she was there in spirit.
Read MoreBlogging about abolitionist Julia Wilbur, the Civil War, Alexandria, women's rights, and more
No protest marches in Julia Wilbur's life, but she was there in spirit.
Read MoreA month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.
Read MoreStaying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.
Read MoreCharleston and Savannah, History and Food!
Read MoreThings were relatively quite in Alexandria in December 1862. Then the wounded started coming up from Fredericksburg by the boat-ful.
Read MoreWe feted at the National Press Gallery.
Read MoreWe (and in 1863, Julia Wilbur) visited Bull Run, fellow battlefield tourists.
Read MoreIn 1861, Julia Wilbur celebrated Thanksiving quietly in New York State. The following year was a different story.
Read MoreI took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.
Read MoreI (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
Read MoreThe post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.
Read MoreDoes your next (or first) book lie behind this door? Learn a bit about the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.
Read MoreCollector and researcher Charles Joyce came upon a Civil War photograph of 12 men. Individually and collectively, they have much to tell us today.
Read MorePost-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.
Read MoreThe Alexander family? The city on the Nile? No one is 100% sure how Alexandria, Virginia, got its name.
Read MoreThe story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.
Read MoreWashington, DC, September 24, 2016--opening of African American History Museum and Library of Congress Book Festival. September 24, 1866--visits to Andrew Johnson and a cure for a "secret disease"
Read MoreA ceremony at Arlington Cemetery honored female soldiers of the Civil War--women who hid their identities and fought side-by-side with men.
Read MoreChar McCargo Bah explained how she found descendants from among more than 1,750 people buried in Alexandria's Contraband and Freedmen Cemetery--who can now celebrate their ancestors, many of whom escaped slavery.
Read MoreOn a Washington walking tour that highlights women's suffrage--and how Julia Wilbur fit into some of the struggles.
Read MorePaula Tarnapol Whitacre's website with a focus on her forthcoming biography on abolitionist Julia Wilbur.