How do you track your Civil War ancestors?   This question arose once again during a presentation I gave recently, so it’s time to blog the ...

“Are Southerners embarrassed by the Civil War?” When I posed this question in a recent blog, my friend Terry, a retired South Carolina newsp...

More than a decade ago when I visited Ford’s Theater, where John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln on April 14, 1865, five days after Lee ...