Archive - Clio's Younger Brother

Jessie Agnes Schley: Antiwar Artist and Activist of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

Part artist, Part Reformer, Part Female Don Quixote

Nov 10, 2024 •

October 2024

Forthcoming in Emerging Civil War

My review of a significant study of the European-sponsored Mexican Empire of 1864-1867

Oct 27, 2024 •

September 2024

My Modest Effort to Challenge an Error About Abraham Lincoln and Slavery

From back in March, here is an article of mine from the site Emerging Civil War challenging a popular error about Abraham Lincoln’s first public battle…

Sep 17, 2024 •

July 2024

Marble Nash Taylor and the Hatteras Theocracy

This article has been in my digital “desk drawer” for some time.

Jul 27, 2024 •

November 2022

When Birth of a Nation came to Phoenix

Here is an article of mine in Emerging Civil War about the 1916 battle over the showing of the movie Birth of a Nation in Phoenix (AZ):

Nov 3, 2022 •

September 2022

A Banned Books Week adventure

This is the beginning of Banned Books Week, so I decided I’d look for the official banned book collection.

Sep 18, 2022 •

June 2022

A brief summer hiatus

Jun 9, 2022 •

May 2022

April 2022

(Insert clever title with the word "monumental" here)

Review of Erin L. Thompson's Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments

Apr 26, 2022 •

My recent Civil War articles: The Reaper Man versus the antislavery minister

Cyrus McCormick tries to cut a swath through antislavery sentiment

Apr 24, 2022 •

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