Field Notes

John Roy Lynch (1847–1939) Historical research keeps changing the map on me. When I first began writing When We Were Apart, I thought about Vidalia and Natchez the way most of us probably do now: Louisiana on one side

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