Bob Snyder was my best friend in high school. We met as members of the McClellan Cadet Squadron, Civil Air Patrol in Sacramento. We both...

The origin of this book came in the early 1990s in my family history research. I stumbled across a query in an old journal mentioning my...

The tragedy in Charlottesville and ensuing cacophony has inspired me to offer my perspective of the history involved. The monuments in...

I was honored to be interviewed on the Writers Groupie podcast. I moved my desk around so that my bookcase was in the background and I...

We recently observed the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the ban on slavery. Slavery—involuntary servitude, bonded servitude,...

The aftermath of the tragedy in Charleston has triggered a lively and not always civil discussion on the action in South Carolina to...

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has named a barracks after General Benjamin O. Davis, ’32, the second African American to...

Congressman Adam Schiff (D., California) has been named by minority leader Pelosi to participate in the most recent inquiry into the...

I note with some concern a series of stories about the Nevada rancher locked in a struggle with the U.S. Government over his payments for...

The four-engine plane carried 15 persons, nine crew and six passengers and nary a trace was ever found. One passenger, a Chinese-American...

The crisis in Ukraine over Crimea has launched news producers into warp drive to find analysts, commenters, commentators, talking heads,...

As posted here before, I have begun to explore audio books in addition to hard copy books and e-books. In the past month or two I have...

As a youngster one of the rituals exercised by my mother was, “David, would you go find some chairs please?” I then had to go about the...

I usually have two books going at once, one a work of fiction and the other some kind of history book. With the Kindle I can have three...

I really need to get better at blogging. That’s a good New Year’s resolution, but I’ve never done New Year’s resolutions. My newest...

In 1963, I heard a single by the surf rock band, the Marketts, called “Out of Limits”. I like the fast paced, heavy bass of the music and...

I am posting this from the lovely California coast south of San Francisco. I grew up in California, moved away at age 18, came back at...

One thing I like to do is participate in online forums (fora?). These are the discussion groups. Back in the early days of the Internet,...

I am reading the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which I recommend from a number of viewpoints. First, it’s well researched...

Yes, an entire year since the last post. Not that I haven’t had anything to write, I just haven’t written it here. Here’s hoping I do...