Both Union and Confederate women rallied to the war effort when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Patriotic fervor abounded, with both sides...

I like 1870. Or 1871. Maybe 1872. Those years are better for sending a mail-order bride to the West in my novels. Anything after 1869. But w...

  The History of the Wedding Cake By Annee Jones           When I began looking into the tradition of eating cake at weddings, I was sur...

  In 1878, Clara Shortridge Foltz began her quest to become California’s first woman lawyer. A mother of five small children abandoned by ...

The image is a funny one. A mouse in someone’s pocket—it brings to mind the possibility of an unsavory pet that someone carries with them, a...

 Post by Doris McCraw writing as Angela Raines Why do we blog? How do we get readers to visit our musings and research? These questions have...