Month: September 2016

Fred Hellerman passed away last Thursday at the age of 89.  His New York Times obituary is here. The 1951 video below may be the only filmed performance of the…

The concluding paragraph: "The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry is a welcome addition to an extensive literature on Brown and the Harpers Ferry raid. Although some of the chapters are…

My friend Rick Francis was kind enough to let me take digital pictures of Benjamin Turner's will (1810) last time I was in Southampton County.  It's three pages long.  This…

One of these days I'm going to finally sit down and write an article that I've been hankering to write for years -- it'll be about the law related to…