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Soldiers and Gambling: the Civil War

What sort of gambling took place during the American Civil War?

I’ve used my genealogy research to write several novels. I’ve written five novellas “on assignment.” Barbour gave me the circumstances…
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Creators need patrons of the arts. We live in a world where creators do not always get the credit they…
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I finally finished rereading Vera Brittain‘s Testament of Youth last night, all 660 pages of it. I had to finish…
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How a simple yes–and a book–can change a life.

My father told the story this way: He and my mother had been in Las Vegas during the years the…
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