Tips from accomplished biographers about how they create what they create.

The letters of an Alexandria woman’s letters reveal her interior life.

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.

Read about Col. Elmer Ellsworth’s short but eventful life, which ended in a heroic death in Alexandria.

Looking at scripts used by Japanese and Chinese women centuries ago, Katy O’Grady wondered how our brains can look at little shapes and instantly transform them into concepts.

Surrounded by thousands of pages of original letters, telegrams, and reports. Heaven.

A moving ceremony to formally open a moving place.

Learn about the process of storytelling from an expert.

Surprises lay underneath the Alexandria waterfront.

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

A talk about two of my favorite women….and not on Zoom!

Imagining the creativity and scholarship coming out of Carter Woodson’s “home office” on Ninth Street NW in Washington, DC.

In which Kathleen Stone, author of the forthcoming They Called Us Girls, talks about how she came to the idea for her group biography and how she carried it off.

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

Two short articles summarize the roughly two decades that Harriet Jacobs lived in New York State—New York City and Rochester (part 1) and Cornwall (part 2).

With apologies to those who never write in books, how and why I reviewed The Last King in America for Washington Independent Review of Books.

A bit more background about a recent article I published on a civil rights action—in 1864 Alexandria, Virginia.

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