by admin | Jan 8, 2015 | History
My friend Tom Cahill has given me permission to republish his letters home from his voluntary exile in France. This is the fifth in the series. It will be daily until I have caught up and then as I receive them. Can we agree that the “Military/Industrial...
by admin | Jan 7, 2015 | History
My friend Tom Cahill has given me permission to republish his letters home from his voluntary exile in France. This is the fourth in the series. It will be daily until I have caught up and then as I receive them. Few aristocrats and politicians throughout the...
by admin | Jan 2, 2015 | History
My friend Tom Cahill has given me permission to republish his letters home from his voluntary exile in France. This is the first in the series. It will be daily until I have caught up and then as I receive them. Hullo Audrey, I can’t sleep so here’s a...
by admin | Nov 28, 2014 | History
Samuel Johnson once remarked that “Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” I’m sure that, in reality, it is not a universal male sentiment, but it certainly resonates with me. For the two...
by admin | Nov 23, 2014 | History
In the summer of 2012, I had this odd notion that I just had to get to the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. While I was there I discovered that there is a pretty small group of people with a similar yen. One of them said they referred to...
by admin | Nov 23, 2014 | History
Roughly a year later I have been republishing my forbes Sesquicentennial real time posts. This one went up at the end of October in anticipation of the Gettysburg Address Sesquicentennial under a slightly different title. There was bit of a flap about the President...
