Blog Posts
(in chronological order by time period covered)
An Actual Privateer: William Parker, privateer
The First English Settlers in New England: John Parker and the Popham Colony
A Manifest Incongruity: Rev. Nicholas Noyes and the Salem Witch Trials
Heresy, Whaling, and Coffee: Edward Starbuck and the settlement of Nantucket
Her Children Sign from the Breast: Deafness in Colonial America
Who Needs the Mason-Dixon Line?
The Motherlode of Erismans: Early Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Flying Camps, Prison Ships, and the Battle of Long Island: Jacob Holtzinger in the American Revolution
Down the Ohio River: Thomas Longley's journey to Kentucky
Friends of Humanity: Thomas Longley and the Kentucky Baptists
The Phalanstery is Man's True Home: Abner Longley and utopian socialism
Wide Awake in 1860: Servetus Longley and the 1860 election
11,670 Miles: Christopher Erisman in the Civil War
Juneteenth and the XXV Army Corps
Occupation Legislator: Veterans of the 66th USCI during Reconstruction
Every Family Has a Maverick, Part 1: Walter Collins in the Civil War
Every Family Has a Maverick, Part 2: Walter Collins after the Civil War
She Has Always Exercised and Enjoyed Those Rights: Margaret Vater Longley, suffragist
Fonetic Speliŋ: Elias and Margaret Longley innovate in shorthand and typewriting
Brave Women: Kate Mifflin Loud at Ft. Lancaster
The Road to Fort Washakie: The Loud family at Fort Washakie, 1895-7
The Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Washakie, 1895-7
The Life of an Officer’s Wife, Fort Washakie, 1895-7
It Was a Most Thrilling Sight! Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1896
A Well-Known Furniture Manufacturer: George Hunzinger, 19th C chair designer
Sir Knight: Masonic Knights Templar in the 19th and 20th centuries
The Real McCoy: A case of 19th century identity theft
The Erisman Grocery Company: Ft. Worth, TX, around 1910
When Uncle Sam Was Ready, Things Moved Fast: The 26th Army Corps of Engineers in WWI
Nettie’s Story: Nettie Roberts and the New Jersey Village for Epileptics
Why Reindeer? The Van Valin family in Alaska
At Home in the Arctic: The Van Valin family on the Wanamaker Expedition
Airship Dreams: Wreck of the USS Shenandoah
The Only Thing You Can Do Is Refuse To Forget: WWII massacre at Katyn
Jack Dempsey’s Rolex: Boxer Jack Dempsey and his attorney Fred Erisman