The Old Northwest Notebook

I picked up a collection of Alexis de Tocqueville's notebooks from his travels in America in the 1830s recently. De Tocqueville i...

This week I've been digging through old issues of the Kentucky Gazette, the first newspaper published in Lexington, Kentucky. The iss...

The age of modern firepower was heralded by the introduction of the Gatling Gun, a multi-barrelled repeating gun. During the American race ...

HMS Bellerophon , a 75-gun ship similar to the Ramilles , which was repeatedly targeted by American IEDs during the War of 1812. Nickname:...

Is that musician wearing flip flops?           Yesterday I spent a good two hours in the basement of the Worthington Public Libra...

Vote for Harrison. He's the kind of down to earth guy who you can get drunk with! Also a war hero! No matter what their politics, m...

Yesterday was the 221st anniversary of the Battle of  the Wabash, also known as St. Clair's defeat after the American commander at th...

I was in the Toledo area last week and had the chance to visit two exceptional historic museums: the restored freighter James M. Schoonmaker...

A friend recently clued me in to the existence of a valuable reference for reenactors, historians and anyone who’s interested in the common ...

This past weekend, I went out to Springfield, Ohio to see the early American reenacting event called The Fair at New Boston ( link ). The...

A few months ago I posted a few pictures from the National Road Museum in Norwich, OH. On the same day trip, I visited the Ohio River Museum...