The story behind 6 Mathew Brady photos of Civil War, Alexandria.

Well before Facebook and Twitter, 19th-century activists still connected and mobilized.

No protest marches in Julia Wilbur's life, but she was there in spirit.

A month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.

Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.

Charleston and Savannah, History and Food!

Things were relatively quite in Alexandria in December 1862. Then the wounded started coming up from Fredericksburg by the boat-ful.

We feted at the National Press Gallery.

We (and in 1863, Julia Wilbur) visited Bull Run, fellow battlefield tourists.

In 1861, Julia Wilbur celebrated Thanksiving quietly in New York State. The following year was a different story.

I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.

I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.

The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.

Does your next (or first) book lie behind this door? Learn a bit about the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.

Collector and researcher Charles Joyce came upon a Civil War photograph of 12 men. Individually and collectively, they have much to tell us today.

Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.

The Alexander family? The city on the Nile? No one is 100% sure how Alexandria, Virginia, got its name.

The story of Arlandria, from rural outpost to diverse urban neighborhood, presented by University of Mary Washington professor Krystyn Moon.

Washington, 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"

A ceremony at Arlington Cemetery honored female soldiers of the Civil War--women who hid their identities and fought side-by-side with men.