An Amazing Revolutionary Era Life Discovered!
Four years ago, I sat next to a dinner party guest and learned about an old journal passed down through generations by her family. The previously unstudied, but well-preserved journal […]
Category Archives: History
The Turbulent Beginnings of Paper Money
Book Review Greenberg, Joshua R. Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. American Business, Politics, and Society. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. With […]
You can read US Grant’s Memoir to study the Civil War but you will learn more about leadership and character!
Book Review Grant, Ulysses S., John F. Marszalek, David S. Nolen, and Louie P. Gallo. The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap […]
Like Washington, can you bank on your boss having your back?
Imagine you are present during the cold, blustery and bleak winter of 1778 and fighting for the ideals of the American Revolution. The main Continental Army under George Washington is […]
Lessons from the King
Due to hackneyed bravado and overdone patriotism, war movies are usually poor choices to illustrate leadership lessons. However, The King’s Choice (Norwegian: Kongens nei, meaning “The King’s No”) a 2016 […]
Wildlife’s Revolutionary Impact on North America
Book Review Smalley, Andrea L. Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. It’s not often when two of your most fervent passions, the […]
Great Historical Accounts Highlight the ABC’s – Ambiguity, Bafflement and Contradictions!
While Post-modern novelist William H. Gass is best known as a novelist and fiction writer, he offers sage, incisive advice to historians and readers of history. “Historians tend to want […]
Drunkard or Dissenter – The Case of Major General Adam Stephen
Having gained extensive military experience during the French and Indian War, Virginian Adam Stephen quickly rose through the ranks of the Continental Army officer corps to become one of the […]
The Character and Contributions of a Revolutionary Lord – Major General William Alexander
A Book Review Nelson, Paul David. William Alexander, Lord Stirling. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Revolutionary war historians tend to focus on the most famous generals to the […]
Biographies of the Continental Army Major Generals
A good introduction to the lives and contributions of the twenty-nine major generals of the Continental Army are several collections of biographical essays. Here are some good examples: Overview Biographies […]
Early American History, Nature and The Human Spirit 