Image by Jeff Nelson under CC BY-SA 2.0 I recently came across a snippet from a letter by Bradford that…
Along the banks of the Shenandoah River, in the beautiful Page Valley near Luray, Virginia, a baby boy was born…
One of Amsterdam's famous canals Nieuwe Kerk, on Amsterdam's central square, was built in the 1300s. Bradford would have certainly…
We explore the closing days of the Civil War, when the victorious president Abraham Lincoln was struck down by the…
A tall and bronzed militia captain named Andrew Pickens led his scouts steadily forward to the unseen enemy. The captain…
There are few young ladies today who relish getting up at 5 AM. Even fewer make it a habit of…
Painting of a Dutch Woman from this period by Rembrandt Two years ago I wrote a short article on the…
This is the start of a series of post from a second research trip to Europe. This time we flew…
As those familiar with the story of the life of William Bradford may already know, he lived in Leiden, Netherlands…
The story of the largest surrender during the entire Civil War - after the famous surrender at Appomattox, Joseph E.…