‘The Lincoln League’ Off the Press
Print copies of the The Lincoln League are now available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and...
The Lincoln League: Available Now!
‘The Lincoln League’ Available as E-Book!
You can now purchase my new novel, The Lincoln League, in e-book formats--Kindle, iBook, and Nook....
The Civil War in Living Color
During the past month, I have been doing research on the wet-plate photographic method, also known...
Why Do Students Today Have Problems With Old Movies?
Pat Gill teaches some of the most popular film classes on the University of Illinois campus. But...
Burnsides’ Sideburns
Thank General Burnsides for the word "sideburns." General Ambrose Burnsides was a Union general...
Wind of Change
One of the great things about researching my novel, The Puzzle People, was that I could go to...
Who’s Afraid of the Dark?
What city was the first to install public lighting? Why did Nicodemus, the man who visited Jesus...
History By the Slice Heroines
Jennifer Goran, the Champaign actress who portrays Ellen Craft, the hero of my novel, The...