akin – Assorted Musings from an Unknown Historian

Dear Mom: Granddaddy Bill Tries His Hand at Poetry

Found scribbled on the back of a memo was this amusing little verse. An internet search turned up no other versions of it, so perhaps

New research on how Jack Ruby, the murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald, was intimately tied to Dallas Organized Crime.

I ended up writing a a paper on this particular election for one my graduate courses basically through luck of the draw. The challenge my

In a battered blue trunk with rusted hinges and broken locks lies the truest of treasures: hundreds of letters from Grandaddy Bill and his brother

So. I’ve been holding back my actual thesis work while seeking publication on it, but thus far my efforts have been stymied. So, what the

I have thus far been silent on the tragedy in Florida, for no other reason than lacking the time to sit down and write the