Toothy Propositions
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How did people in the mid-19th century take care of their teeth?
Read MoreEmancipation: A Step into the Unknown
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About 500,000 left slavery during the Civil War. As Chandra Manning's new book details, they took enormous risks in their search for freedom.
Read MoreThe Morning After
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Julia Wilbur records what she felt and saw the day after Lincoln's assassination.
Read MoreFinding Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office
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Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office was lost for decades. Here's how it was found.
Read MoreHow a Paragraph Helped Win the War
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Paragraph 6 of the Emancipation Proclamation ushered in a new era. Here's how.
Read MoreSilent Sentinel: Then & Now
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At Signature Theatre in Arlington, high school students learn how century-old suffrage protests resonate today.
Read MoreSorghum: The Abolitionists' Sweet
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Abolitionists sought to "grab your wallet" through non-slave labor products like sorghum.
Read MoreJulia Ward Howe & Julia Wilbur
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Julia Ward Howe & Julia Wilbur traveled in different circles--but they did connect at least once.
Read MoreHeroines of Mercy Street Revisited
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A few notes from Heroines of Mercy Street, by Pamela Toler.
Read MoreMathew Brady's Photographs of Civil War Alexandria
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The story behind 6 Mathew Brady photos of Civil War, Alexandria.
Read MoreAbolitionist "Social Media"
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Well before Facebook and Twitter, 19th-century activists still connected and mobilized.
Read MoreMercy Street Is Returning!
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A month or so ago, I got a peek at episode #1 at a roundtable with the producer.
Read MoreKeeping Warm in a Civil War Encampment
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Staying warm took ingenuity--including a contraption called a Crimean Oven.
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Thanksgiving in Alexandria, 1862
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In 1861, Julia Wilbur celebrated Thanksiving quietly in New York State. The following year was a different story.
Read MoreL'Ouverture Hospital and My 4.5 Minutes of Fame
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I took part in a November 19 ceremony to inaugurate a historical marker at the location of L'Ouverture Hospital in Alexandria.
Read MoreWalking Tour: Women of Civil War Alexandria
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I (and Julia Wilbur, in spirit) tagged along on a National Women's History Museum walking tour of Alexandria Civil War women.
Read MoreMosby and Grant: A Post-War Relationship
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The post-war connections between John Singleton Mosby and Ulysses S. Grant, according to a recent book by David Goetz.
Read MoreReconciliation? Not Exactly
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Post-War reconciliation? Historian Caroline Janney offers a different view.
Read MoreThe Alexanders of Alexandria
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The Alexander family? The city on the Nile? No one is 100% sure how Alexandria, Virginia, got its name.
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