Articles Listed by Author

This website offers three categories:

Dozens of history and biography articles (listed below).

Q-and-A interviews with history people (scholars, museum curators, a historical novelist, etc.).

Book excerpts from a range of prominent writers including Edward Gibbon and Edith Hamilton.

This page lists the site’s pieces by author, alphabetized by last names of subjects. For a list of articles alphabetized by first names go here. See the “About Us – FAQs” page for additional background. A search button is in the upper right corner.

Articles by Harold Frost

“Abraham, Martin and John” (Song)

Alcoholics Anonymous (Bill Wilson; “Bill W.”)

“Anthology of American Folk Music”

Ask the Editors (“Was Napoleon Short?” etc.)

Assassination of President Kennedy

“The Battle of New Orleans” (Song)

Beaver Trading and Trapping in the Early 1800s

Isaiah Berlin’s Hedgehogs and Foxes

Michael J. Briggs – Academic Press Editor (Interview)

Dr. Bronner: Master Soapmaker

Andrew Carnegie

The Cold War (Several Articles)

Rocky Collins – Filmmaker (Interview)

Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

The Enneagram Analyzes History

Benjamin Franklin (Book Review)

Alexander Hamilton (Book Review)

Lesley S. Herrmann – Executive Director of theGilder Lehrman Institute (Interview)

The Indianapolis 500: Ten Great Cars From Its History

Influenza: 1918-19 (With Sidebar on Dr. Johan Hultin)

John Rice Irwin – Founder of the Museum of Appalachia (Interview)

Nancy Isenberg – Historian (Interview)

David M. Johnson – Historian (Interview)

Thomas Keneally – Author of “Schindler’s List” (Interview)

Robert F. Kennedy

Gerry R. Kohler – Teacher (Interview)

Lloyd Kramer – Historian; Co-Author of”A History of the Modern World” (Interview)

Leopold II of Belgium

The Attempt to Steal Lincoln’s Corpse

Lincoln vs. Douglas in 1858

Lincoln Museum: A New Version of Old Abe

The Sad Journey of Mary Lincoln

Mireya Loza – History Graduate Student (Interview)

Clare Boothe Luce

Misquotations from History

Michelle Moran – Historical Novelist (Interview)

Samuel F.B. Morse

Museum of Appalachia

Museum of the Fur Trade – Two Key Executives (Interview)

Gary B. Nash – Historian (Interview)

“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” (Song)

Nell Irvin Painter – Historian (Interview)

“Pancho and Lefty” (Song)

Pop Songs Immersed in History

“Reilly: Ace of Spies” – A Review

“Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Roads to Moscow” (Song)

John D. Rockefeller

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Albert Schweitzer

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Songs About the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

“Strange Fruit” (Song)

Harry S. Truman

“Upstairs, Downstairs” – TV Series (Three Interviews)

Booker T. Washington

Langdon Winner’s Remark About the Congress of Vienna and a Beatles Album

“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (Song)

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Articles by Charles Matthews
(Book Reviews Originally Published
in the San Jose Mercury News)

Britain Ends Its Slave Trade

John Cooke and King Charles I

Emily Dickinson

J. Robert Oppenheimer

John J. Pershing

The Philosophical Pragmatists: Holmes, James, etc.

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Article by J. Brent Norlem

Civil War Battlefields: Touring the Western Theater of the War

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Article by Steven G. Kellman

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Article by Peter Richardson

Carey McWilliams

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Book Excerpts From a
Range of Prominent Writers

Pickett’s Charge by Shelby Foote

Appomattox by Douglas Southall Freeman

The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The Ancient Greeks by Edith Hamilton

Silver for General Washington by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft

The Gettysburg Address by Carl Sandburg

Journalism in America in the Late 19th Century by Page Smith

The First World War (Prelude to the Fighting) by Barbara W. Tuchman

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