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Lucien Fewell shot James Clark after he apparently ran off with Lucien's 16-year-old sister. The murder trial that followed featured two Confederate generals and a former Virginia governor. What was the verdict? (also on Amazon.com)
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Weekends of Fun
… but without the leather straps (at least, so far). Sorry, Whit Stillman. My calendar has blown up with book events. Two weekends ago, I was in St. Louis for an extremely enjoyable Living History weekend that included a straw poll … Continue reading
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We Are the Goon Squad …
… and we’re coming to town… I’ve been thinking a lot about fashion over the last couple of days. Not modern fashion, however. Next weekend is DragonCon, and the kid considered his outfit. (He’s going as a Stargate army dude, … Continue reading
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Finally Bona Fide
“Certainly not, I gather, the world’s greatest living expert on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg . . .” But I am, I think, maybe the world’s greatest living expert on Lucien Fewell and James Francis Clark. This was the big week. … Continue reading
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Sunday Laws—on Tuesday
It’s weird to think about it now, when everything is open 24-7, when you can buy things off the Internet without even leaving your bed, and when people are hollering about letting store employees stay home on Thanksgiving, but once … Continue reading
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FUBAR Love Triangle
(keithyorkcity.files.wordpress.com) My book (coming out soon, I swear!) focuses on a Southern murder in 1872. In the eyes of the jury, it was a pretty open and shut case. By contrast, a much higher-profile murder that occurred in New York … Continue reading
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Mary Walker and Her Knickerbockers
Late posting, again. This time I lagged because I was off on a business retreat where colleagues and I talked about fun things like serial commas, loaded language, the best way to cite weird and complicated documents in bibliographies, and how … Continue reading
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No Man Is an Island…
Big news out of Britain today. But as I think you all know by now, I am generally misanthropic about current events. So in today’s post, I will tell you that big news came out of Britain (well, Geneva, really) … Continue reading
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Horace Greeley and His Weird Ways
You guys! Over the weekend, Roll Call ran my article about Horace Greeley and how Donald Trump might not be the weirdest and worst candidate ever. You can read it here. I think that counts as this week’s blog post, no?
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Something a Little Different
While I’ve been blogging the bejeebers out of history over here, I’ve also had a lot of fun spreading my Twitter wings, especially with the #TCMParty crew when Turner was running Roger Corman Thursdays. That appears to have run its course; channel programming seems … Continue reading
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Congress, The Klan, and Confederate Amnesty
In May of 1872, Congress and the federal government were already well along in their pursuit of knocking down the Ku Klux Klan, but work was still ongoing. They were also in the (perhaps counterproductive, yet necessary) process of granting … Continue reading
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Arwen Adams Bicknell 