Letters, E-Mail and History

Letters, E-Mail and History

For those of us who write historical non-fiction, logs, diaries, journals and letters are the essential ingredients of our research.  First-hand accounts are the sine qua non of our work. My first book, Your Brother in Arms, was based on 41 letters written by a Civil...

When History Grabs You by The Arm

Robert C. Plumb is a writer, marketing consultant, and former marketing executive for two Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of Your Brother in Arms: A Union Soldier’s Odyssey and has written for the Montgomery Historical Society’s journal, the Washington Post,...