Content I’ve written about various historical topics and mysteries. Representative articles include:
Chicago’s Lost Graveyard: Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park wasn’t first intended as a park. In the nineteenth century, it was the Chicago City Cemetery.
Chicagoland’s Haunted Cemeteries
Chicago has a rich history of ghost stories. Several of the area’s most notable hauntings derive from its historic cemeteries.
The Cooperstown Myth
The late Major General Abner Doubleday was being lauded as the inventor of baseball at the turn of the century. Doubleday himself, however, would have known as well as anyone that the story was an utter fabrication.
Five Major Civil War Battlefield Blunders
The Civil War featured several prominent battlefield blunders. The resulting casualties have made these battles case studies in bad military judgment.
Greenland: The Lost Viking Colony
What happened to the Norse settlers of Greenland? A millennium later, we can still only guess.
Reflections on the Origin of Veterans Day
World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Nearly a century later, the losses are still almost impossible to fathom.