Nail After Nail
A naturalization certificate bought on eBay for $30 led me through ten censuses, two continents, and 150 years of anti-Catholic violence in America.
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The Pin No One Claimed
A condolence letter from the Phalo Club led me to ordained women ministers, Susan B. Anthony's colleagues, and the suffrage movement's forgotten alliance of progressive religion and industrial...
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The 200 Dollar Box of Papers
How I bought the papers of Julia Anna Nenninger Balbach, a Gilded Age novelist and industrialist's wife, at an online estate auction for $200. What was in the...
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Let's See What's in the Box
I have a problem. I can't stop buying other people's dead relatives' papers. Storage units, estate sales, auction houses. If there's a box of old letters gathering dust...
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