The book table at Costco proves an irresistible lure, but the barbs there leave my jaw aching. Increasingly since the historic election of 2...

Reading through one of my old journals in the quest for a poem that I wrote eighteen to twenty years ago because my nineteen year old son sa...

While students in my American Indian History course are taking an exam that some find brutal, I spend some time reading my scribblings in an...

The long view of history highlights some compression towards the present.

The colonists at Jamestown set up a test to compare their weapons to those of the Indians. Less than a month after the colonists arrived in ...

Jamestown 1607-1610 The Jamestown Rediscovery archaeological project sheds light on aspects of the lives of the Jamestown colonists. Par...

Colonial Firearms Assertions of European technological superiority appeal to our common sense. We know that guns are better than bows and ...