Historical Research Archives

A Story Idea in 3 Blocks or 1 Minute.

I got a story idea this morning on the way to church. It hit me and came in only three…
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Using maps to write about Chambers in Egypt

I was a year or so into writing a detailed genealogy when one of my distant cousins challenged my research…
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Do you like to read love letters? Well, certainly if they’re addressed to you. But what if, as an historian,…
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If you’ve read as many WWI books and war-based fiction as I have, you may be wondering “what IS bandage…
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My mother was an Italian immigrant. That’s her in the passport photo. Mom’s the baby. My grandmother, Fortunata, is the…
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