Whatever you do, there will be critics. And the further forward you think, the more

Because banking was NOT in the United States Constitution, anyone could open a bank.  And

Readers do not know how blessed they are.  In 1951, this WAS interlibrary loan in

My favorite quote from ALICE IN WONDERLAND has become my motto as an historian and

At the end of the Second World War, most of Europe was in ruins. This

This is a barabara, a sod hut used by the Aleuts before the Second World

I like this photoshop so much I turned  it into an electronic jigsaw. I love

The greatest power of writing is offering the reader a new perspective. ANYONE can write

No, it is not THE Louvre. It is the ‘Temporary Louvre,’ a saloon in Juneau

One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his

I learned a new word the other day: syzygy.  It’s another word in English which

History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.