Field Notes

Charles H. L. Pierre (1814 – after 1886) Historical research is full of people who refuse to remain in the margins. You begin by looking for one person, one school, one church register, one family in a census. Then another figure

One of the strangest things about working with very old primary sources is how often the smallest discovery becomes the one that changes everything. When I began looking for details on Straight University, I found a name. That name led