This Day (Lost and Found Edition)
On this day 150 years ago, at about 10 o’clock in the morning, give or take, a Union corporal named Barton W. Mitchell, of the 27th Indiana, found a stray… Read More»
The Mystery of Don Luis (Part 3)
In Season 1, Episode 6, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe concludes the remarkable story of a Virginia Indian named Don Luis. After nine years abroad, he returns home with… Read More»
Slavery by the Numbers (redux)
Almost six years ago, I wrote a blog post, “Slavery by the Numbers,” that included a number of statistics about American slavery presented in the manner of a Harper’s Index.… Read More»
The Mystery of Don Luis (Part 2)
In Season 1, Episode 5, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe continues the remarkable story of a Virginia Indian named Don Luis. Trapped in Mexico City and newly baptized, he… Read More»
History Writ Aright
What does that even mean, history writ aright? Aside from it being a quotation from a speech I recently read, I mean. It’s a question I’ve wondered about, and worried about, as… Read More»
The Mystery of Don Luis (Part 1)
In Season 1, Episode 4, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe unspools the first part of an epic Virginia narrative. Plucked from the New World by lost Spaniards, an Indian… Read More»
The Charms of Belle Boyd
In Season 1, Episode 3, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe considers the Civil War spy Belle Boyd, of Winchester. Given a choice between common sense and her version of… Read More»
The Death of George Wythe
In Season 1, Episode 2, of Not Even Past, host Brendan Wolfe tells the story of how the Founding Father George Wythe met his gruesome end. Thirty years earlier he’d signed… Read More»
‘If you think about it, why?’
This morning, in a radio interview, President Trump took a moment to contemplate the American Civil War. “People don’t realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”… Read More»
New Sheriff
We know him around here as Gibby, or MSG2D, or Dr. Sweeg, or just “Hey!” as in “Hey, can you trouble shoot this XML issue?” And we offer the above… Read More»
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