I don’t actually own Mrs. Douglas MacArthur‘s tablecloth, but I own one like it. What is that tablecloth? It’s a white…
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Can a Researcher Ever Stop Researching?
“Does the researching instinct ever end?” I’ve been asking myself that question for several years now. The thrill of the…
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Privacy and the Biographer
How does a biographer deal with privacy issues? As in, what if you stumble on something intimate, do you share…
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A Fascination with Historic Color Photos
“Historic color photos from Tsarist times,” read the Seattle Post-Intelligencer headline. I read the article with interest. I’d always been…
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Happy Birthday, Biddy Chambers!
It’s birthday week for Biddy Chambers as I write this post. Born July 13, 1883 in Woolwich, Kent, England, Gertrude…
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An Amateur, Passion and the Civil War
The word amateur comes from the Latin base, amator, to love. We’ve taken that word and turned it into a…
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