Our War

Two brothers from West Springfield, N.H., headed west in the late 1850s to seek their fortune in Minnesota. What drew them there is hard to ...

The statue that guards the Soldiers Memorial Building on a corner of the town common in Lebanon, N.H.    No landmark in New Hampshire ...

Then-Sen.  Barack Obama and I during a 2007 Concord Monitor interview. He was running in the primary; I was editor.  During a busy we...

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes The December 1862 edition of the Atlantic Monthly carried a long piece titled “My Hunt after the Captain.” ...

From William Craig's Concord Monitor review of Our War : "N o other writer could offer us Our War’s insightful recreation of th...

Usually when I speak about Our War , my audience knows little about the book. My purpose is to describe its content, give listeners a taste ...

Several years ago I had the privilege of interviewing the late Donald Murray, the University of New Hampshire writing guru. Don sent me a la...