Blog Posts
Down the Ohio River: Thomas Longley's journey to Kentucky
Brave Women: Kate Mifflin Loud at Ft. Lancaster
Why Reindeer? The Van Valin family in Alaska
11,670 Miles: Christopher Erisman in the Civil War
Her Children Sign from the Breast: Deafness in Colonial America
Juneteenth and the XXV Army Corps
The Phalanstery is Man's True Home: Abner Longley and utopian socialism
Flying Camps, Prison Ships, and the Battle of Long Island: Jacob Holtzinger in the American Revolution
An Actual Privateer: William Parker, privateer
The Motherlode of Erismans: Early Mennonites in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Who Needs the Mason-Dixon Line?
Nettie’s Story: Nettie Roberts and the New Jersey Village for Epileptics
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
Friends of Humanity: Thomas Longley and the Kentucky Baptists
Airship Dreams: Wreck of the USS Shenandoah
The First English Settlers in New England: John Parker and the Popham Colony
Occupation Legislator: Veterans of the 66th USCI during Reconstrruction
When Uncle Sam Was Ready, Things Moved Fast: The 26th Army Corps of Engineers in WWI
The Only Thing You Can Do Is Refuse To Forget: WWII Massacre at Katyn
A Manifest Incongruity: Rev. Nicholas Noyes and the Salem witch trials
A Well-Known Furniture Manufacturer: George Hunzinger, 19th C chair designer
Fonetic Speliŋ: Elias and Margaret Longley innovate in shorthand and typewriting
She Has Always Exercised and Enjoyed Those Rights: Margaret Vater Longley, suffragist