Over the weekend I watched the 2002 version of the movie Solaris , which though I am a Sci Fi fan was not my favorite example of that genre....

I have written a couple blogs about the history of Alexander Wilson and of his important work, American Ornithology . There is a very inte...

I recently finished reading Susan Schulten’s fascinating Mapping the Nation. History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America . This s...

The lands of the Mexican Cession, acquired by the United States in 1848 , came into the country without definite internal political organiza...

In an earlier blog , I wrote about Alexander Wilson, often called the "father of American ornithology." He earned this sobriqu...

In past blogs (for instance in the blog on print journals ) I have written about the American Historical Print Society’s excellent magazin...

In the previous two blogs of the series "Shaping the Trans-Mississippi West," we looked at how two huge areas were added to the Un...