I've been enjoying
this blog for the past few weeks or so. The women who write the blog are published authors of historical fiction (romance and novels, respectively). I have a passion for historical fiction myself, and so was drawn to the site for obvious reasons. I particularly enjoyed today's post on
Anne Boleyn's shoes. What caught my attention over the weekend was
this post about a bequest left to the Library of Congress. The LOC received hundreds of photos from the Civil War era and none of them were identified. There's a link in the post to the album that the LOC posted on Flickr. Using the photos would be an excellent way to put a face on people from the past - in the end, history is their story (we're still writing ours). Some of the images are poignant, some are humorous, but they are all familiar. For our students, perhaps giving history a face would allow them to see the drama of the past.