A first look at some new tools I'm exploring to amp up my efficiency and effectiveness.

My review of the short biography of Thomas Jefferson by the always controversial but also quite interesting Christopher Hitchens.

Was Columbus a Heroic Discoverer or a Genocidal Invader? A talk for Bemidji State University's Hispanic Heritage Month.

Dr. Charles Knowlton wrote America's first birth control manual in 1831, and was jailed for it. But based on records from the town where he lived, it worked!

My reaction to Active History's Episode 162, reacting to the Patriotic History vs. 1619 controversy. 

Lyman Ranney writes the first of several letters to Henry from the South. He includes observations on slavery. 

A short letter from Henry's nephew, Frederick T. Ranney, writing to collect a debt.

Thinking about how the stories of radicals in the past can be useful in the present, with a 201-year old quote from Richard Carlile. 

I originally joined the PhD program in History at UMass because I wanted to write about Englishmen Charles Bradlaugh -- but I'm still not sure whether that writing is going to be history or historical fiction!

Using a (slightly inaccurate) story from recent history to explain why Tesla underpromises and overdelivers on new technology disruptions. H/T to Gali Russell of Hyperchange.