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It’s Here! The Red River Valley in Arkansas: Gateway to the Southwest

Now available all over the place! I am not one for bragging, but when I opened the box that contained my author’s copies of my newest...

Another Red River Historian

When you take into the account the vast volumes of literature that American historians have produced over the last two centuries, what...

Imagining History

In graduate school, I was begrudgingly introduced to renowned American colonial historian Bernard Bailyn. I say begrudgingly because my...

Moving and Changing in America

My family hails from the South… I mean from way back. They came from the slums of Middlesex, London, and after a generation in Ireland,...

Insulator-ing

I consider myself very lucky because my son likes to take road trips with me. Sometimes, I feel as though I need to justify my trips, and...

History in Ghost Towns

I think I mentioned this before, but if I haven’t, well… I hunt ghost towns. I’d like to do that for a living, but there’s not much money...

In Defense of Automobiles

I love a good road trip, and I believe that I’m not alone in sharing that sentiment. I’d wager to guess that the majority of people from...