reading the American past into the American crisis--and vice versa
Author of The Whiskey Rebellion, Declaration, Autumn of the Black Snake, and other books, including The Hamilton Scheme. I blog about US political and economic history, American vernacular music, and related subjects.
Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.
Reflections on the History and Legacy of America's Bloodiest and Most Divisive Conflict