The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: Abraham Lincoln

  • Exploring DC: The FBI Experience and Ford’s Theatre

    If only there had been an FBI before Lincoln was assassinated.

  • What Thanksgiving Was, Is, and Should Be

    I hope they don’t perpetuate the myth in schools anymore.

  • The Mysterious Melungeons

    There is a group of people in Eastern Tennessee whose ancestry is said to date back in this country to the late 1700’s. At the time there was talk of people who lived in the forests as Indians, but who looked European and spoke a broken form of Elizabethan English. Their descendants are called the…