Freedom Riders: Complex Characters Present Black Cavalry Regiment\u27s Plight

It was not until 1943, when Bell Irving Wiley published The Life of Johnny Reb, that the common soldier in the Civil War gained his voice. Although veterans on both sides of the conflict published reminiscences after the War, their memoirs lacked the perspective that only a scholar such as Wi...

Seeing the Elephant in Ann Arbor

During the nineteenth century seeing the elephant meant doing something that was out of the ordinary. Today, we might refer to the same occurrence as having peak experience. Whatever the case, I like the elephant metaphor because it captures the excitement I felt last May when I visited the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan