Wet-collodion processing led to faster shooting and much more reproducible images, but another important component of the evolution of photo...

This winter I started posting about photography and how it relates to understanding/portraying history, because this is a topic I find parti...

This past weekend, The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers held a World War I ball to commemorate the centennial of the start of the first world wa...

I don't talk about the modern(ish) clothes I wear day to day, because that's not really what this blog is for. But recently my famil...

Ok, confession time: I lied. I said I didn't have enough time to make a new ballgown bodice for my cotton 1860s dress, and that I wasn...

I knew I wanted to live up to my role of war correspondent for the WWII Weekend in Reading, but I also didn't want to carry around a mod...