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

"Murder, aristocracy, recluses, and goats"--and race relations in this book by Karen L. Cox.

I hope my guest blog for the University of Nebraska Press gives you some useful tips to go from diary pages to a narrative.

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

Anna Lynch (1925-2017), much loved and respected, honored at the Lyceum on September 23.

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

i got to volunteer at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities' booth at the National Book Festival.

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

Point Lookout's location marked it for many things during the Civil War, including a large Confederate POW camp. 

The Confederate veteran has stood on Alexandria's main north-south thoroughfare for more than 100 years. What should happen to it now?

Julia Wilbur found an eclipse had a "baleful" effect on her mood.

A trip along the Harriet Tubman Byway is a good reminder of injustice and bravery.

A visit to the Thomas Stone Historic Site and Port Tobacco on a summer Saturday.

How to choose 8 people to recognize at the base of a monument to honor emancipation and freedom? With difficulty.

Historian and author Pamela Toler posed some questions to me about Julia Wilbur and Civil War Alexandria.

From a variety of primary sources, and from Mount Vernon to the Far West and back again.

in which I meet my book, bound, for the first time!

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?

Check out four costumes used on the PBS series Mercy Street--worn by Alice Green, Emma Green, Mary Phinney, and Jed Foster. 

Julia Wilbur does New York City--early July 1863. I follow her footsteps--late June 2017.