The close of another school year is upon us. During my 19 years of teaching, I experienced the end of school enough to know firsthand...

Tomorrow is V-E Day, "Victory in Europe Day." On this date, we remember the unconditional surrender of all military forces of Hitler's...

In junior high English class, one of our assignments was to write letters to a family member or friend who was serving in the military at...

Historians (but not only historians) have a variety of ways of identifying the dates of objects and photographs that lack any verifiable...

Just a quick update on my upcoming book Evangelism and Expulsion: Missionary Work among the Cherokees Until Removal. I've received from...

I enjoy studying "On This Day in History" lists. They often include not only genuinely historic events but also some other interesting...

Early in my formal education, shortly after I had learned to enjoy reading, I somewhere picked up the habit (I thought it was an...

We tend to take vacations to give ourselves rest, relaxation, and possibly some recreation to help us recover from our energy-depleting...

Just learned that my story on South Carolina Revolutionary War heroine Dicey Langston is airing tonight on the national Our American...

James Hugh McNeilly was a Cumberland Presbyterian chaplain in the 49th Tennessee Infantry (CSA) during the War Between the States....

As we witness daily, almost hourly, reports of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it reminds us of how war can divide not only countries...

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, numerous commentators (reporters, historians, politicians, various sorts of "experts," etc.)...

Since World War II veterans seldom talk about their war experiences, if one is to learn much about their experiences, he often has to...

While going through a bunch of old photos the other day, I got sidetracked from the original object of my search and went down the rabbit...

Random Thought #1 The other day, my wife and I were out and about, running some miscellaneous errands, and when lunchtime came, we...

My daughters have often said to me, "Dad, you ought to write a book (or article) on ____," and they fill that blank with whatever subject...

After years of research and writing, the dream toward which all the labor was exerted is finally getting closer to becoming reality. This...

Daddy was a child of the Great Depression. He had few toys. The few he had were, more likely than not, homemade. Besides, there was...

November 13, 1955, is a date that, for me, will forever live in infamy. It was the day when I had my first (and, to date, only) encounter...

Choosing a topic for this week's blog post was difficult. I couldn't decide whether to write about the out-of-state granddaughters with...