Library of Congress In July 1899, Susan B. Anthony, who was nearly eighty, was in London for the International Council…
I love diaries, especially women’s diaries from the Civil War era, so when I saw a mention of the diary…
In May 1855, American newspapers were abuzz with talk of a wedding. The bride and groom were not society folk or…
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Wikipedia) As you may know, I collect nineteenth-century photographs. I belong to a few Facebook groups on…
Library of Congress For Women's History Month, here's a short piece I posted on Facebook about dress reformer, army surgeon,…
At long last, I'm pleased to say that The Queen of the Platform will be available on March 12, just…
(This post originally appeared as a guest post on Linda Bennett Pennell's blog, History Imagined.) In researching my historical novels…
I recently visited England (my first visit in way too many years), partly to track down some residences associated with…
In 1870, the widowed Mary Lincoln and her son Tad, who had already been in one war zone in Washington,…
In 1851, a new word entered the fashion lexicon: the “Bloomer.” It referred not to undergarments but to what had…