Ever since I wrote about Thomas Arundell of Wardour and followed it with a look at Matthew Howard of Virginia and Maryland, it has been impossible to avoid...
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald disappeared from radar during a violent Lake Superior storm. At 7:10 p.m., the ship’s captain, Ernest McSorley, radioed another vessel with...
The early Chesapeake was shaped by a wide cast of settlers, from landed gentry and indentured servants to Puritan merchants and opportunists. Among the names that recur in seventeenth-century Virginia...
When most people think about how churches organize themselves, they tend to imagine one of three familiar patterns. There is congregational polity, where each congregation governs itself. There is presbyterian...
I am pleased to say that I have recently been accepted into the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (OAAA). For those unfamiliar, this is a lineage society devoted...
When people talk about the Great Lakes in the late twentieth century, they often do so with an air of despair. By the 1960s, the lakes were badly polluted. Industrial...
When Sabaton sings “when the winged hussars arrived,” they are not exaggerating the drama. The image of armored riders, wings rattling in the wind, thundering downhill to save Vienna,...
Few English nobles of the early seventeenth century lived lives as perilous or as fascinating as Thomas Arundell (c. 1560–1639). Born into the ancient family of Arundell of Wardour, he...
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