A Complicated Man: John Baylor’s Letters to His Family
How could John Baylor have done such terrible thing and simultaneously be so effusively affectionate in his letters home?
The Early American Origins of Political Terms
What does stump speech and pork barrel mean? A short lexicon of American political terms.
Reading the Landscape
For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...
Visualizing History
Nineteenth-century visual images, then, had power to move people to action, to convert ideas into policy.
Finding Your Place in Letters
For scholars of American history, letter-writing makes historical research possible.
Adventures in Historical Research
Megan Kate Nelson, a historian of Civil War and the American Southwest, is behind the (Un)Catalogued Column for JSTOR Daily.