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by William Marvel Northern New Hampshire has produced a fair crop of soldier-adventurers, despite a sparse population. There was Colonel Timothy Bedel of the Revolution and his son, General Moody Bedel of the War of 1812. Moody’s own son led a New Hampshire regiment in the 1863 battle for which the 54th Massachusetts has lately …
As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: “Them that’s got is them that gets/And I ain’t got nothin’ yet.” While the workaday majority of Americans continue to be mired in our low-wage economy, the precious few at the tippy-top soared out of sight in 2019. They started the year wallowing in wealth—but …
I spent a week in Bloomsbury in August of 1993, while researching Confederate naval intrigues in England and its colonies. I selected my hotel mainly for its proximity to the British Library, but partly for the nearby buildings that Confederate agents and emissaries had frequented in the 1860s. The intellectual history of Bloomsbury exerted no …
A van fitted out for camping allows me to pursue research trips without prohibitive expense. Motels would eat up my entire income, but with a sleeping bag and a box of homemade grub I can compete with academic historians who enjoy grant-subsidized sabbaticals. Most truck stops offer showers, with coffee and hot water for oatmeal, …
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America’s power elites for Christmas. To each of our Congress critters, I sent my fondest wish that from now on they receive the exact same income, health care, and pensions that we average citizens get. If they receive only the American average, …