The links below lead to free lance articles written for history magazines years ago. Some of these, especially Bound for the USA, have been extensively expanded from the original version.

Bound for the USA: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth British Colonies and the Deep South

What the Dickens is Wrong in Yankeedoodledom? An Inquiry into Charles Dickens’ Quarrel With America.”

 Sir Charles Lyell and Lady Mary Plunge Into the Great American River; and Draw Out a Rare Portrait of Mid-Nineteenth Century America.

Mrs. Maverick: Texas Pioneer, Frontier Wife, Mother, Nation Builder.

The Vine and Olive Colony: A Cutting of Napoleon’s Empire Grafted Onto American Stock.

The Good Doctor Lloyd Noland and Welfare Capitalism of Another Age.

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